Anyone Heard of the Great Crescendo

JNLister

Had a query from a friend -- not found any trace of the guy myself:

A woman who goes to my wife's crochet group has asked me if I could find out anything about her Dad who she says was a wrestler by the name of Barry Greenhill (I believe she said Barry) in the 1960s ish era. She thinks he went by the name of The Great Crescendo and was very very tall (as is she), she claims he was over 7ft. Now whether or not that's true I don't know but she herself is about 6'4 so I'd say his height is likely to be notable.

Does that ring a bell for anyone?

SaxonWolf

I would have thought that at least one of us on here would remember a seven footer, if not us then one of the wrestlers like Dale Storm or Eddie Rose?

HackGood grief. Could this be someone I've been searching for over the last forty odd years? Tiny Greenhill was featured on a BBC programme about fairground wrestlers in the late 1960s. Ray Glendenning was also on. I believe he was trained by Jim Hussey Please find out if this is my man.

JNListerI've let my friend know and passed on the WH address, Hack. He's going to check with her in the next couple of days. It'll certainly be a nice change to have somebody claim to be or know an old wrestler like this and it be true!

Hack

I couldn't have imagined the name Tiny Greenhill could I? So he definitely existed, but I know no more than that. Other to say that I was once told it was Roy Bull Davis who trained him, not Jim Hussey as I mistakenly said earlier.

sparkys6887Just looking through old post's and wondering what the outcome was???

The Riot Squad

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Eddie Rose wrote in with his memories of Tiny Greenhills which we forwarded but have not yet received a response.

Kirsty Cowan

Hi my dad was a wrestler called Midge Cowan I've been finding out a bit about him and Barry was a good friend of his he was indeed 7 foot and people called him tiny funnily enough I have a newspaper article about him as he moved to Brixham in Devon and stayed with my dad he was a machanic I think my dad got him into wrestling they worked the fairgrounds for Mickey Kiely's for a bit.I hope this is useful for you.