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