Maps out and if you look at the triangle of Rotherham , Doncaster and Barnsley you would wonder why any wrestling ever got into the villages in that area and yet I have found a handful of villages where Wrestling was evident.
Back to 1961 and the Crabtree Promotions.
Sitting Bull , the man who was to be in Madras the following year below. A rare sighting of Brian Crabtree as a wrestler.
So the baths was covered over in the winter and assuming the ring was in the middle, chairs would be brought in at ground level. Photo's show balconies along the two long sides of the pool. Only shallow corridors in effect , but I could imagine 400-500 people getting in there. Maybe someone can tell me if it was more.
Can we assume that the shows had some success. Why else would Relwyskows have a small trial a few years later
Don't think they were too struck on it as 1965 the Indies were back.
Local boy Sam Betts wrestling under his own name and not as Dwight J.
A Miners Tag team with Pete Curry.
2 twenty stone wrestlers The Beast and El Scorpion with a mask thrown in.
StJohn and Svajik got everywhere with their own show practiced to perfection.
Wrestling penetrated everywhere in out Golden age , but make no mistake Wombwell had seen wrestling a lot earlier.
Looking further into Wombwell , the Crabtrees were there in 1959 as well as 1961.
You would wonder why not 1960.
The answer to that comes back to the triangle of towns in South Yorkshire that I spoke about and that they had chosen Mexborough to have a go at. This time a Drill Hall and again with speculation on how they would set it out , could it hold any more than The Baths at Wombwell.
Look carefully and you will see a 1959 Zoltan Boscik.