Perhaps the bit Bernard Manning was promoting was the bit featuring the cabaret artistes under the two wrestling bouts. I don't recall wrestling ever taking place in The Embassy Club. I didn't promote any of the four wrestlers mentioned (I think - unless Big Eddie was Eddie Rose, which I doubt, and Doctor Death worked for me without the bonnet) but in my subsequent thirty-two year as a jazz promoter I did promote Pat O'Hare on a couple of occasions. He was getting on a bit when I promoted him just over a decade ago but in the day he was a winner on "New Faces".
On This Day-9TH NOVEMBER at HANLEY's VICTORIA HALL- We Have a Visit
from BILLY TWO RIVERS who Faces PLYMOUTH's ROY 'BULL' DAVIS in the
Bill Topper! +
An Appearance from The MASKED ZEBRA KID!! and....
An Early BREAKS versus DENNISON Encounter!!
Yet Another of My Original Newspaper Press Ads!!
MAIN MASK
09 November 1903
Birth of Carver Doone
Wrestling overseas today, Colin Williamson wrestled to a draw with Erich Koltschak, in Hamburg, Germany, on this day in 1960.
On our TV screens, on this day, the first ever televised wrestling show on ITV, on this day in 1955:-
Mike Marino vs Francis St Clair Gregory
Cliff Beaumont vs Bert Royal
On 9th November, 1938 The London Club (Lanes) was shut down because it did not meet safety standards.
My favourite programme!!
Wimbledon (merton civic hall) in 1972
Looking at the last line of the bill i seems Manning was promoting - can this be?
Early memories of Johnny Saint and a very early Dr Death , must be a a fake.
The Palladium Nightclub Collyhurst Street Manchester shows a side to wrestling that was fairly unique to Manchester.
Bernard Manning went on to be a big name on TV.
These were dark , smokey and seedy times.
Days when a comedian told a joke smoking a fag.