The story of a Leeds trapeze act featuring three sisters

They were the three Leeds sisters who lived the high life.

The Three Sisters Eston were a trapeze act who thrilled audiences across the UK.

They were three young women from Hunslet, who were all actually sisters with the surname of Stone.

On the left of the undated black and white publicity postcard is Susan Elizabeth Stone, the eldest, who was born on the February 11, 1887.

On the 31st July 1911 she married brush maker, Leopold Blackmore who developed a high wire act with her brother George.

In the centre is the youngest sister, Elsie, who was born on the December 23, 1894. She married Arthur Hollingsworth in the December quarter of 1919. On the right is Clara Stone, born on July 7, 1889.

The sisters were the daughters of Joseph Daniel Stone, a fitter, originally from Walsall in Staffordshire, and Sarah Stone from Golborn in Lancashire who both trained the girls for their trapeze act. Their father's stage name was 'Joe Sylvana'.

A review of their act from a Hitchen newspaper cutting makes impressive reading.

"The sisters Eston perform a charming and daring trapeze act. Marvellous agility and clever acrobatic work combine to keep audiences in a great state of thrilling excitement from the commencement of the act to the finish. They perform daring mid air twists which make the audience literally gasp, and one is saved by a clever sister from falling headlong to the floor."

In 1908 the family were living at number 1 Woodhouse Hill Mount in Hunslet.

It is believed that the sisters gave up their act just prior to the First World War.