This Week's Poster is for the 8TH is for WESTON-SUPER-MARE's WINTER GARDENS PAVILION
in 1971!
It's a NORTH versus SOUTH Challenge!
Main Bout is MR.'GOLDEN BOOTS'-JACKIE MR. T.V. PALLO in with JOHNNY EAGLES!
With The Cocky Pig Tailed One still riding high-I reckon he probably 'edged' this one 2-1?
Again The Main Support Bout is of Interest-The not often seen 'JUMPIN' JIM MOSER versus the
Excellent TONY CHARLES! JIM was a Real Hard Nut-Literally-and was Much Better than his Bare
Results suggested!
MAIN MASK
Vince Gyungi, whose fleeting career happened to coincide with the compilation of the Who's Who and whose inclusion therein befuddled me for more than a few decades; and befuddles still.
What a bill! Before Eagles secured his visa to venture South for the afore-mentioned two or three years. I've been to Blackburn, all ups and downs (no, only ups) but not much going on. Where on earth did they get the audience from? In fact, I recall driving around Blackburn coming back from Peter Preston's house, must be 15 years ago; a marvellously empty motorway, like in Ireland. Hack and I nearly wetting ourselves in the car, lane-drifting, as we compiled the Ladies of Wrestling list. We published it straight away without any more profound reflection....Googie Withers, Mary Rand, Kendo Nagasaki's auntie.
This is what you could get for 10 bob in 1969
Thirteen bob in 1969 is extortionate!
It was Peter who spotted the Austrian schillings.
Well spotted Anglo Italian. Main Mask seems to have added time travel to his talents, this looks like 1969.
Says something about DM shows when the most interesting thing to comment on is the date.
Johnny Eagles really did the rounds of the Southern halls 1969 to 1971, very frequently top of the bill in with McManus or Logan or Pallo. I remember seeing him in with Mick and the height difference made it rather absurd. But of course Mick won.
Quite expensive for a modest 4-bout bill; and the 10/6 period was just about still hanging on for bigger and better bills elsewhere.
Maybe the affluent patrons in Weston were amongst those refusing to be decimalised and this really was 1971 as Main Mask suggests - nearly 7 months after D-Day!
This was not 1971 prices are in schillings. Far more likely to be 1969