I love finding what I call nooks and crannies. Right down the bottom end of the county of Lincoln we have Spalding. My weight training Mentor went to live there , he has passed now , said it was very quiet and flat , myself , never been to Lincoln.
Your looking down the street at the corn exchange , I think built in the 1850's and I suspect a capacity of low in the hundreds.
I believe wrestling peaked in the early 1960's with the Pallo/McManus feud , Dr Death and two Rivers , Starr and Gordienko etc. So many visitors then and it's position on TV. As early as the 1920's the Exchange had hosted boxing and I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone had a go at promoting wrestling. Don't know if Joint ever did but what looks like Jack Taylor to me brought some refreshing faces to Spalding and the fact that he managed a few years , think he must have done the game proud.
Hack , correct me if these are not Jack Taylor.
Enjoy a couple of bills from 1961
Nice to get these bills to sit alongside my bills for Lincoln and Grantham and a few other places. Over the years I have seen bills where the advert might cover one week and also double up with next weeks bill included. Not so sure if I have ever seen a promoter's advert where he shows two shows in different towns on the same template. For me , i think it might be a first. Enjoy these and I have more to show you soon.
Pat Favarque mentioned earlier looked like a Jack Taylor wrestler. I wonder if he was Pete Lapaque?