Weymouth regularly had two bills a week but I have always detected that the big names were not attracted by the long journey on the road to nowhere.
Francis P. Blake was in retirement there and seemingly managed the seventies shows for a while.
I have to laugh. I remember diligently removing ads for the Miss Weymouth competition that amazingly squeezed their way onto already bulging poster-space:
That's why my format is squareish above. You can't see the join!
My train of thought was prompted by Main Mask's own poster which he has shared with us today, I detect a slightly superior quality bill for a rather higher profile resort:
I'm aware that places like Brighton and Southend and Blackpool had more than one bill a week but these often involved different halls and promoters.
I'm wondering just how many resorts we can find in this little set of doubled-up posters?
BTW: imagine the promoter "licking all twenty" as we say in Italian. The saving on a whole set of posters for one show, and the costs of distributing and placing posters for one show!
Any more offerings?
These days the few promoters at seaside resorts during July and August have just one generic poster with a series of dates and no specific matches mentioned
I do not recall any of these double handbills in the north. As you say AngLo Italian there were multi weekly bills in Blackpool but usually different promoters. I recall Dominic Pye putting on shows three times a week in Blackpool. I remember mini skirted girls handing out his handbills, but they were only for that day's show. Main Mask asks about Robin Howard. He was a Norwich lad trained by Brian Trevors.
In those days most holidays ran from Saturday to Saturday.Having to leave knowing the next nights bill would be difficult
I say again: where goeth Mick, goeth Robby.
Oh yeah, I forgot those magnificent Weymouth double handbills, Al. I've got loads somewhere in the (wine)cellar. Must root out.
More importantly, yours completely shoots down in one scan my theory that Naggers and McManus avoided Weymouth and Weymouth was lower-grade. Delighted to be wrong!
Robby earning his chauffeur's fee big-time.
Double whammy in Weymouth in the open air in 1972.
Stunted piers.
Hi MM, I went to Great Yarmouth for a day last year. The first visit in about 50 years!, We drove up the coastline, from town to town. Like most places, Yarmouth is full of slot machine palaces on the sea front, it still has a nice big, wide beach.
Hope you enjoy it.
The Marina at Great Yarmouth, blimey, that takes me back to the 1960's, as a youngster. Part of the whole British Seaside Holidays experience, as a young lad, was walking down to the sea front, on the first day of our holidays, looking out for the posters and seeing who was on that week.
Thank you!
I'm wondering whether these Weymouth and Margate shows indicate that a packed crowd was guaranteed? Maybe they had arrangements with local hotels and caravan sites whereby guests had wrestling entrance included in their packages?
This is turn perhaps causes the absence of the likes of McManus and Nagasaki from these venues. Any northerners, really, no petrol to pay. No internationals. Just a bunch of regular Dale Martin staff piled into the van. On the cheap.
Budget bills with the Bronsons and Bonds getting all the work they wanted.
The golden rule willingly broken there with three of the guys featuring on both sides of the Margate poster.
Great finds, so resourceful as ever, Main Mask!
So now we have three venues.
Clearly money-spinners.
Any of these in the North?
Yes! ANGLO- I Have More!- Here's a Selection That I Have Immediately to
Hand:- Starting with 2 Late AUGUST Shows at The MARINA OPEN AIR
THEATRE at GREAT YARMOUTH!!
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MAIN MASK