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Edited: Apr 10

Nooks and Crannies...Cupar

in Memories of the Old Days

Had to stop for a minute when I came across Cupar. It could almost be in India with a name like that.

So we are in Fife in the 1960's at a time where almost every town in the country had wrestling on.

The Corn Exchange , bought by the council in 1961 and then used for events.

My understanding , only a capacity of 300 ?

The 1968 bill...Cape Promotions.

also nearby at St Andrews Town Hall. As Main Mask would say Super Rare.

11 comments

11 Comments

Riot Squad

Jul 28

This topic has now been given a permanent home on Heritage, but by all means continue the discussion in the forum

https://wrestlingheritage.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cupar-.pdf

Anglo Italian

Apr 10

Just a technical point, Ron. Your research has clearly made you a master of venue capacities.

I have been to plenty of wrestling venues but never stopped to assess the capacity of the hall and if you asked me now how many could fit into, say, the Albert Hall or Failed Halls or Tooting Granada, I just wouldn't have had a clue.

Powerlock

Apr 11

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The capacity for the performance hall is listed at 320

RON HISTORYO....Time Cop,

Apr 11

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I like to look them up and it fascinates me how the promoter makes a profit on a gate of 300 , but they did, Circa 1960 a good deal of picture houses held between 900 and 1200. These were probably built 1930 ish. Not sure if I have see a picture of wrestling in a Drill Hall. By nature these were quite long , I would have thought.

I often check out prices too.

Peter

Aug 04

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From a fans point of view it is better to have a small venue packed to the rafters than a large venue half empty

Powerlock

Apr 09

the corn exchange actually has two halls but they are in different floors hence the capacity per hall. But with a population of around 9000 it probably couldn't service a bigger building

j_shelvey

Mar 19

Great research Ron!

So the Boston Strangler was black and were the punters of the time to assume that Ms.Two Rivers was related to um, what’s his name? Also, adding ‘iroso’ to Hiroshi, hardly sounds Japanese!

Hack

Mar 15

Good find Ron. With such a small capacity its surprising to see Joint moving in in 1963.

The Ost

Mar 15

Amazing Ron, I don't know if Ray had any of these.

RON HISTORYO....Time Cop,

Mar 15

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Ray had an amazing number and got a lot before digital , but I think he had a hit list approach of big halls , regular halls. But a few years have gone by and new stuff is coming on all the time. I am getting perhaps 3000 new bills every year. The places amaze me. Ray worked by the year and was not really indexed other than that.

I work by the town but don't break down the venues. I don't do the results either. It's just too big a job.

My own fascination for this was that I used to come home from work and pick up the Manchester Evening News each night and see where there was wrestling on. I remembered the mini bills as they were when I came on Heritage , was used to newspapers because I did genealogy, so knew I could root them out. I think I have been collecting now for about 12 years.

The Ost

Mar 18

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You're doing amazing work. As did Ray and the others. It all helps me tie it together with my results & bills files.