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Continuing a Circus Legacy in Scotland
July 22, 2024
'I went on tour with the circus three days after I was born'
Maddie Cottle Dock was literally born into the circus.
For within three days of arriving into the world in Paisley, Renfrewshire, she joined her parents as they hit the road with Cottle and Austen's Circus.
Now 21 she is back in Scotland as a performer in her own right, continuing a family legacy that stretches back to the 19th century.
"On my great grandmother's side being in the circus goes back around 200 years so I really was bred to do it in a way," she says.