Types of Venue where UK Wrestling took place

United Wrestling promote at a Tap Room in Oxford

re schools item: I promoted the shows at the two schools mentioned where I was a PE teacher and during my time as a wrestler. Good old days. Eddie Rose aka Le Diable Rouge.😊

One to add to markets.

According to Ray Plunkett, Norwich cattle market held shows after they moved from what is now Jarrolds shop in Norwich.

Rugby Club at Blaydon in the1970s, school fetes and community festivals during 1960s, 70s and 80s, during WW2 Holiday at Home events across the country had various entertainment including wrestling at Primrose Park in Jarrow, they almost certainly had other wrestling shows on the Holiday at Home programmes as they ran for a few years.

Sorry I caused confusion with no punctuation strip club was the astor Albert Rd Blackpool ,British legion was Windermere Rd leigh

Outside pubs......been to a couple of events recently held in the pubs outside area.

Also the mention of Drill Halls as a specific venue. Many of those in the old days.

Recently went to an event in a brewery.The Azvex Brewery in Liverpool

Open air at Cawood North Yorkshire, and Knottingley carnival also outdoor, this was always held in July. Knottingley Sports Centre ocassionally held wrestling. Then Pontefract Town Hall was the main venue for wrestling.

Eddie Rose told the story of wrestling in his school hall to raise funds for repairing the school roof.

Some of the recent suggestions had slipped through the net. Please shout if the list is still not up to date as of today.

Town shows......Northampton Show always had wrestling

Wrestling at the Lumley Arms in Maltby (near Rotherham):

Very hard for me to adjudicate, if that is my role. Your contributions are great and we are clearly scraping the barrel now; I don't mean that disparagingly, just that it looks like we have nailed down most UK venues from the Heritage years.

So....

I think that if there was A shopping centre show in this century, it shouldn't really appear on our list.

I agree that the mention of American and Italian venues is interesting, but we really want this list to be limited to places we know or can relate to.

Not for the first time over the decades☺ I cannot understand Mad Mac: are you suggesting Stringfellow's niteclub at Cambridge Circus?

All "my" lists are intended for democratic inclusions, so let me know if I am being unfair.

There was a wrestling show in the Metrocentre shopping centre in Gateshead about 20 years ago, it drew a fair sized crowd

I suppose Stringfellows would fall under “night club”? Myself and Mrs. Mad Mac attended a small show locally a few years ago which was held in a unit of a local shopping mall where the promotion was based!

I know this thread is supposed to be restricted to the UK but during a recent visit to Philadelphia I attended Indy Pro Wrestling Events at two rather unusual venues.

One was at a still active Episcopalian{Church of England}Church. All the seating is cleared and it is used for a variety of popular cultural events using the dual purpose title of Trinity Centre for Urban Life.

The other venue is a Fire House{Station}.The bar attached to the station is also used for a variety of events and is festooned with posters from Opera Philadelphia's visits to Italy including the small community of Pieve near Venice .At this event the wrestlers fought without a ring!

1969:

I just remembered this one, which we discussed some time ago, a hospital

A couple of non-public shows: Colin Joynson and Tony St Clair did a match at a home for people with learning disabilities. Monty Swann did a match with a Greek waiter on mats in a small function hall in a hotel in front of the other staff. He'd been bigging up his supposed wrestling expertise to his colleagues and wanted to show off by doing a match so hired Swann plus John Kenny as ref. It soon became clear he was not the seasoned pro he'd implied.

A Residents Club. Not sure what that meant other than a hall where residents met.