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A new gallery featuring The Elite Cinema Uttoxeter in the 1960's.
The cinema held 900 , seven hundred plus 200 in an upper circle.
Not sure how it could do wrestling on a Wednesday if it was a cinema , I do know that eventually it only did films two days a week.
Wryton took advantage and did shows through the decade. A Place that would not have sprung to mind and yet another example of the Nooks and Crannies of the country showing regular wrestling.
"While doing Uttoxeter I came across a show nearby and I don't think I know any of these guys. Anyone shed any light."
In the mid 1960s everyone wanted a bit of live wrestling action. This looks very much like a local bill with local lads. I've not heard of any of these names.
As opposed to Uttoxeter, Abbots Bromley is very much a village with everything clustered around the one main street. It is also a bit out in the wilds so I imagine that back in 1967 all the local action would centre around the Village Hall. It attracts lots of visitors on the first Monday in September when the locals perform their ancient Horn Dance, well worth watching! Can't help with any names on the bill however.
While doing Uttoxeter I came across a show nearby and I don't think I know any of these guys. Anyone shed any light.
I am also impressed by some of the bills displayed here but I must point out, living in reasonable proximity to the area, that Uttoxeter isn't some tiny village and even before the construction of the A50 it was quite easily accessed by car. Furthermore Uttoxeter station is on the main Derby to Stoke line and could prove a catchment area from both cities and some of those names would have surely attracted an audience from these quarters.
VAT changed a lot and the varying rates were talking points. Thank you for the detail. My 6.25% must have been New York sales tax when I lived there. The figure haunts me, even in rhyme:
Two, four, six and a quarter, who are we about to slaughter.
Anyway, my point was that VAT was a serious contributing factor to rising seat prices.
Maybe it was your grasp of detail that distanced Elaine ...
As a wrestling fan, so always interested in historical accuracy ( and interested anyway) I Googled what you said Anglo.
The God Wiki said
Purchase Tax was replaced by Value Added Tax on 1 April 1973. The Conservative Chancellor Lord Barber set a single VAT rate (10%) on most goods and services.
In July 1974, Labour Chancellor Denis Healey reduced the standard rate of VAT from 10% to 8% but introduced a new higher rate of 12.5% for petrol and some luxury goods.In November 1974, Healey doubled the higher rate of VAT to 25%. Healey reduced the higher rate back to 12.5% in April 1976.
But I do agree with you about prices going up in the 1970s with the hyper inflation. I remember one night my girl friend Elaine telling me that because of inflation her dad had decided to buy a new tele. And she was finishing with me.
I wonder what sort of tele it was.
Do you remember, Hack, decimalisation saw them really upping the prices in the new pence and then two years later entry of the EEC brought VAT at the staggering rate of 6.25% if memory serves me correctly? Plus super inflation, strikes and power cuts - you very quickly had to think about which bills you would attend.
Just 900 capacity and all the Wryton big names are there.
In 1965 ringside seats 6d cheaper than 1961, was this a sign of a declining market? We've often said mid 60s were the peak. Prices didn't rise until 1968.
And we still complained.
Thanks Ron.
Kellett and Masambula were standing dishes. I'm surprised one venue could handle Kellett's routines so frequently.
Czeslaw and Tibor seemed to like the place too, but not many signs of the other Dale Martin regulars.
Blimey, Uttoxeter even saw The original Outlaw opposing Quasimodo!
Some great balanced bills in there, including the Count in his final masked year.