John Aldron

Poor John was a victim of being where he wanted to be in in the public gaze (benefit s).Graham most workers as you know prefer low key refs the consumate pro om that respect was Emile poilve, Brian Crabtree was trying recapture the limelight after his injury in Bingley that ruined a great career,in his mind.

I recall John Aldron as both an M.C. and a referee. He was employed by Martin Conroy who told me that he was very reliable. I believe he would often "run" the West Midlands shows if Conroy or Rylands were not available and that he was genuinely helpful to Conroy who was battling the bottle at the time.

I then recall Dixon using him and he was often the referee in the centre of the Albert Wall/Kendo Nagasaki finish which Dixon used a lot and which I have typed about before when Wall would launch himself from the top rope with his flying headbutt manoeuvre only for Nagasaki to pick Aldron up and use him as a protective shield as Wall came flying down. I saw it twice and each time Aldron played his part perfectly.

I recall once mentioning to Dixon that I felt that he lacked personality and Dixon using my remark to impress upn me how little I knew about the game and that it was not the job of the referee to be a personality. I would have been interested in Bryan Crabtree's view on that!

I don't know the story about why he disappeared but he seemed to arrive overnight and disappear overnight.

Back in the day Paul , I never bothered about the officialdom at all. I could not even have told you who was promoting at Belle Vue.

I liked Martin Conroy and somehow knew he had been a wrestler although I had not thought he went right back to the 1930's.

I thought Crabtree's antics were not what we needed and apart from that had no knowledge at all of the referee's , not one of em.

The ref was often on the bills in the paper , but I never bothered.

So needless to say , I have never heard of this guy.