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Wrestling

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Billy Wood Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0102
Scope and Contents

Collection of material related to Billy Wood travelling boxing booth, containing business records, photographs, correspondence, programmes, posters and other items of ephemera.

Dates: c1900 - 1979

Dale Martin Promotions, Wrestling! Poster, c1920 - 1979

 Item
Reference code: 178R51.2
Scope and Contents

Pleasure Gardens Theatre Annexe, Bouverie Road West Folkestone, Sunday 14 August and every Sunday night, Gordon Nelson versus Big Bill Verna, Black Kwango versus Harry Kendall, Eddie Saxon versus Bob Archer O'Brien, Charlie Fisher versus Irish Ivor Barratt, Black type on red paper. Printed by Brixton Printers Ltd., 313 Brixton Road S.W.9.

Dates: c1920 - 1979

Free-Style Wrestling Programmes, 9 February - 16 March 1959

 File
Reference code: 178K51.3
Scope and Contents Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray, black type on pink, green, orange and white paper for each one of the programmes, contains programme inside of fights between Spike O'Reilly, Davey Jones, The Red Demon, Johna Datas, Flash Elliott, Roy La Rue, Rontos the Bull, John Chambers, Jack Landoss, Ray Rigley, Danny Curtis, Less Parry, Duncan Roberts, the Masked Marvel, George Dawson, Paul Armstrong, Dave Griffiths, Rory O'Calahan, Douglas Cordwell and Max Blackely, also contain hand written...
Dates: 9 February - 16 March 1959

Newspaper Cuttings, 1974

 Series
Reference code: 178G55
Scope and Contents

Newspaper reports on boxing and wrestling.

Dates: 1974

Newspaper Cuttings Related to Boxing and Wrestling, 1974

 File
Reference code: 178G55.1
Scope and Contents

A newspaper cutting and three issues of Wrestling Review.

Dates: 1974

Posters, c1920 - 1979

 Series
Reference code: 178R51
Scope and Contents

Wrestling posters containing images and list of fighters.

Dates: c1920 - 1979

Programmes, 1950 - 1959

 Series
Reference code: 178K51
Scope and Contents

Boxing and Wrestling programmes containing boxers' information, professional rankings and photographs.

Dates: 1950 - 1959

Wrestling Posters, c1920 - 1979

 File
Reference code: 178R51.1
Scope and Contents

Pleasure Gardens Theatre Annexe, Bouverie Road West Folkestone, Robert Duranton versus Tony Mancelli, plus 3 supporting contests. Black and white photograph of a bare chested man on the left hand side and black type on pink paper, contains hand written annotation on reverse, also part of the same poster with hand written annotations on reverse. Printed by Brixton Printers Ltd., 313 Brixton Road S.W.9.

Dates: c1920 - 1979