POSTERS DATED FOR NEWSLETTER-9TH MAY!!

Thank you

Good Luck Graham all the best

All the very best Graham. I’m sure all will go well for you.

Thank you for all the good wishes. I've just returned from my consultation and now await the date for my first of two ops.

Good luck Graham I'm sure it will go well.

Would love to see the poster, especially anything Wryton.

Have also had laser surgery on my eyes, and it went very well.

I wish you well Graham. I had both my eyes done about 4 years ago without any great problems. I had to have laser treatment on one eye because sometimes the lens gets cloudy.

That was even easier than the cataract bit.

It was the first time that I could see clearly at a distance without glasses, since I started wearing them aged 11..

If you are worried about the op, don't be. There is no need. Good luck.

Sorry, I meant to write that the La Rue/Barnes/Street poster was from a Wryton show at The Gaiety Theatre, Rhyl. Yes, I'll sort my box room out. At the moment however two cataract operations loom!

I haven't kept any details of my shows unfortunately. In fact, a couple of years back I was corrected when reminiscing about one of my own shows by a fan who had attended and kept details of the bill and the results.

Somewhere in my box room is a roll of about fifty/sixty posters from the period; mainly Wryton but also my own shows and a few others. Lockdown would have been the ideal excuse to sort through things and find them but I haven't done so. Even if I did however I wouldn't know how to get them onto the site.

I know that somewhere in my collection is that Maurice La Rue block. It's black and red print on white. You would like it for your favourite users of the name Hells Angels, Street and Barnes, are pictured. Their opponents were The Martinis. I forget the two supporting bouts but Maurice La Rue is pictured preening in the mirror and his opponent was a blue-eyed Terry O'Neil.

Some excellent posters here. The Maidstone one is particularly impressive. I've got very few posters on a pink background and this one features the relatively rarely used block of Maurice La Rue admiring himself in the mirror. I've contributed at length previously about my admiration for Maurice La Rue on the handful of occasions I managed to see him. Full marks for Crabtree for bringing him back a decade or so later as "Wild" Red Berry, the manager for Mississippi Mauler "Big" Jim Harris, but I felt the magic had gone as he essayed his new role. Perhaps it was just the fact that I was ten years older.

Looking at the Norwich poster, the bout that stands out for me is Count Bartelli versus Johnny Kincaid. On a show I promoted on the early eighties at The Gala Baths, West Bromwich, I had to rearrange the bill on the night as the wife of a certain leather-helmetted participant telephoned me the night before the show to demand additional money for her husband or he would not be appearing. I couldn't give in to this so had to do some switching and when Kincaid arrived I informed him that I was matching him with Bartelli. Kincaid said that it was all right with him but asked if I had cleared it with Bartelli. He didn't go into detail but felt that Bartelli would not be happy to arrive to find that Kincaid was his opponent. Instead I matched Bartelli with Doctor Death (on this occasion Paul Carpentier) and put Kincaid in a tag team with a young lad who had driven Nikki Munroe and her opponent up from Bournemouth. I forget his name but I billed him as The Dropkick Kid and they faced the Pallos.

FAB Poster- This One-On This 9TH MAY at MAIDSTONE's AGRICULTURAL

HALL with 'ROCKY' WALL Topping The Bill against RAY 'THUNDER'

GLENDENNING!!+

Intriguing Match-Up between CLAYTON THOMSON and JOHNNY KINCAID!!

MM