It lies in quite flat dairy farming countryside a mile south of Shredicote and a mile west of Mitton.
Born in Holloway in London, the son of George Frederick Woollaston (1828–1896), a shoe manufacturer, Methodist preacher and faith healer, and Adelaide Mary (née Green) (1849–1923), like his older brother Monte, Frank Saldo developed an interest in Physical Culture at a young age and with his brother travelled in the stage act of Eugen Sandow in the late 1890s.
Her husband Ben had won the PTC 3 event in Sheffield the day before Woollaston moved to the UK.