He looks to be age 25 when he came here , so pretty early in his career. Came after touring Australia. I do have a few more than Wrestlingdata have. I have nothing for October . Looking at this lot , I was going to say where was he in Lancashire. I found him at Belle Vue , but I know that I was not there on this night so I don't remember him.

RIP Peter Kaye

Was here a lot from 1958 to 1968. RIP

Edinburgh Evening News. Match was a Leith 30th July 1956 , report was featured the next day with a Walsh win.

Thanks Guys for a nice response , the icing on the cake , out of just pure interest , would be an insight as I mentioned about the job of the ring crew on this North Wales Loop. How many rings would Wryton have access to. Did one ring do the who coast. Probably only Paul or Eddie could answer this , and maybe not regarding this period , it's a piece of research that there is no way of looking into , other than word of mouth.

Hi James , Strange thing from a wrestling point of view is that Halifax had shows either side of this especially one on 22nd February. These were advertised in the papers with decently presented bills. The TV show had no advert that I can see that would show the full card. Just an advert about obtaining a ticket to be at the TV show. Hence I don't expect a show for the 20th to ever show up in my collection.

Bert Royal v Billy Howes and Dai Sullivan v Ernie Baldwin from Halifax. From John Lister's ITV Site.

Died in 1980's , I have been told , however , have been unable to find the date as Verna is not his real name. I need a clue , wife/child or name. We think he was born 1929 in Perth , but that is not enough.

Click for a bigger image , Looks like he did at least 10 years in the game. I can do a bit better , he was Ray "Chesterfield" Smith from , you guessed it , Chesterfield .

Welcome to Heritage James. Those bills I put up are not in fact Posters. They are newspaper bills that I collect and graphically enhance. They are digital and I have no hard copies of anything. You may be familiar with the term "Screen Grab" and you could in fact get yourself a high quality print of any. I have 40,000 bills and when we get a query for a little known wrestler , I can often knock out 20 or so. In the case of Norman Walsh who was such a busy and well known wrestler , there could be many hundreds. No way can I filter them and get them all. You get private collectors on ebay etc selling posters and programmes Here are three of decent quality. the match with Thesz was probably a career highlight. Below Walsh and Marino in 1956 with ref Les kellett.

RIP Brian Hunt Shown here working locally with his mate Clark Mellor

Some very early ones although I have him in 1947. the Eldorado one , Walsh won the British and European Championship that night. (Light heavy) And 1971 in Grimsby one of the very latest at the end of his career.

RIP Black Jack

RIP George Passalaris

Had a look at Kersh , Ray , and although he clearly had an interest in the wrestling , I can't see anything to suggest that he did it big time. The link below has a bio that states that he had three All in Wrestling matches. https://www.london-books.co.uk/gerald-kersh As for ASTA Promotions , now that we know that , given that I have access to the digital newspapers , these bills are still very rare and hard to find. The interest for me is that after Bert left Joint , he gave a chance to up and coming wrestlers to work with him as well as working with old friends who were built to withstand a battle with him. Guys like Les Thornton went in with Bert very early on , took a lot of bottle, and, it seems you earned respect if you got stuck into old Bert , and your money went up. The example shown has Thornton (Pierlot) and Streiger only a couple of years into their wrestling careers on a bill with Bert. Nothing to indicate the Promoter , but quite possibly Jack Taylor.

He won Anglo , his name is ticked.

Happy New Year Ray , I had to go to Mike Hallinan for advice about Bert's Promotion. It seems he went in with Jack Taylor as ASTA Promotions. I have bills in 1958 and 1959 where he looks to be working for Jack rather than the partnership , but it's impossible to work out if this was the case behind the scenes. Left an example of ASTA with Bert in with Black Mask George Nuttall of Marple, using his Independants name of Alec Nuttall (CapetownTosh)(1958) Also news to me Dale Martins used ASTA and then bought them out. And finally below and actual match with Bert performing in 1960.

1944 regular at Hammersmith.

Going into the 1970's Rose Street Hall was actually the Drill Hall, so I would expect a capacity of a few hundred. DJ Mask mentions 70's shows. Rose Hall also hosted McDee Promotions. (Click for larger image) Some outdoor shows in 1972. And finally Jackie Pallo working the Social Club. A long way from home.

Yes so hard to pin a man to an exact inch and of course the answer can lie anywhere in between. Oakeley used Jack Baltus as Carver Doone and the 1930's Ghoul and claimed seven feet. Baltus had worked with Timber in Canada and I think Sheep in Australia. He looked so tall on the boat over with a hat on that it gave him celebrity status and they measured him. He was actually six six and a half at that moment , probably six seven out of bed and in his work boots was over six eight. Put a hat on him and you have a big man. Moran sure looked a massive guy to me and I put him one of the biggest British men ever. Unforgettable. It may have cropped up before , but he also wrestled masked . This example , he unmasked , despite only losing by DQ. I think they could have used him more as a wrestler , but then again , I think he got to fight all the top men. Great that you got his autograph Anglo , in those day's I thought the persona was real out of the ring as well , and would never have dared ask.