« Reply #37 on: Tuesday 24 October 17 01:53 BST (UK) »
Hello Rena,
thanks so much for your reply appreciate that a lot !!!
Cumberland Wrestling at Haslingden thats a big surprise to me...I need to find their programs and ads, which decade was that? How long ago? Do you have any pics of it??? That style was known as Border Style or Northern Counties Style, classy back hold first down to lose. I had no clue it was practiced in Bacup areas...I thought that Rochdale and surrouding towns had their own wrestling style catch-as-catch-can...also known as Lancashire wrestling, I wonder which style was historically practiced in West Riding...thanks again, great information !!! Kind regards, Ruslan
I've lost a few grey cells I'm afraid, so can't give definitive answers. I probably saw advertising posters stuck to lampposts, etc.
I've looked on Google maps to see if I can jog my memory of which farm land the fairs/fetes were held on hoping to see the uphill path we climbed to get to the field but I've drawn a blank.
A shopping precinct opened up a few decades ago which has expanded quite a lot. The fair/fete was accessed from where the car park is now. Look at google map for "Winfields, Acre, Rossendale", which is on the A680 near Haslingden. A few farms are shown behind Winfields.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke