Nooks and Crannies......Barnoldswick

Great to have you back, Mike.

Hope you had a successful experience and are feeling good.

So time for a ring return and hip tosses galore!

Hi there everyone. Just got back home from hip replacement surgery, with 2 weeks of physio after the operation. Everything ok now and should be fighting fit by the end of September. As far as Barnoldswick is concerned, I remember there was wrestling there but I myself never got there. By the way it is nearer to Nelson and Colne where the night club wrestling was going on.

Well I'm with Anglo Italian and drooling over these. No sign of the promoter, and no real clues.

Randolph Turpin still trying to earn an honest crust, and two years later would be dead. Piet Slabbert we've talked about and remains largely undiscovered. Turpin must have brought in a few bob for his opponents, at least to start with when his name had some pulling power and interest.

It's "surprising" how many of these independent men have been seen on tv. Here we have some man in a mask and fans told they remember him (or was it another man in another mask?) in a film some 12 years earlier. "Oh, yes, I remember him in the film, he was just like that," many a ringsider called out. If the original Thunderbird had been on tv when he visited then it certainly wouldn't have been this one Ben Whateverthespelling, the Polish Red Indian from Manchester.

The ladies on tv were no doubt the subject of a local BBC news report deriding their presence. There's no record of Josef Szabo ever wrestling on tv, could have been another news report. Maybe he was promoter of the ladies match. It is believable, and likely, that Fuzzy Kaye had appeared as one of the Seven Dwarfs. But not in Hollywood as claimed, more likely a panto in Bognor. Mind you, mixing with those Hollywood stars would make a

change from the company he usually kept. His life story in "LIttle Legs, Muscleman of Soho" is well worth a read if you can get hold of a copy.

Promoter still cashing in on the name of ex boxer Jack Doyle. Man Mountain Eddie certainly once seen never forgotten, though I doubt if he was seen even this once. Same goes for Yogo Tani. Too late for Kito Tani (now back with Dales as Joe D'Orazio) and would not have been Togo. I have seen his name on a couple of other bills, which is more than the Man Mountain.

Keeler and Barton, cashing in on a bit of non wrestling related publicity, did the rounds with Barton winning in the second round. Surprisingly Billy Red Rivers and Ray Knowles did turn up. Who he was is another matter.

Hope you are very very well, dear Ron.

Gotta love Chris Keeler in 1965!!!! What a creative bill all round, on the right. Billy RED Rivers, Eddie Logan. Surely enough to convince, passively, the casual fan that big tv names really were coming to Barlick. Honor's there too. That bill tells us about who had been hitting the headlines in 1964. Even the 1964 film Zulu. And even Ian St. John - who had scored 21 goals as part of the team that had surprisingly won the First Division soccer.

Honor had been on BBC TV - what was that all about??????

"Popular Prices" - best use of the adjective since Mick McMichael!!!

Any guesses as to who subbed for Ray Knowles?

I want to write a thesis about that bill, it's magic.

A lovely place, Ron, and yes it is near Skipton (amongst other places). My wife has family there and we have been loads of times. The locals do indeed call the place "Barlick". One of the main employers in the town was the Slumberland bed company, from memory, not sure if that is still there or not.