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One of these in my husbands tool box, always wondered what it was. Must have belonged to his father because I never saw my husband use it 

I must have seen Mick McManus at BelleVue Kings Hall .Early 1950’s .
They wore long black tights under shorts .
Another wrestler was Karel Istaz ,very good looking blonde Eastern European.

Gosh it was good fun ,little old ladies -as I am now - screaming vicious instructions to the wrestlers !
One wrestler Jack ———- very “ dirty “ wrestler but it was all put on for the crowd .
Viktoria.

I think more women went to the wrestling than men  .  My mother used to go on the bus to Horsham with her girl friends…pretty sure it was their version of my generations Chippendales 

Is it the 1819 marriage of Thomas Thomas and Anne Davies on your other thread? 

I have read both threads and am almost lost for words. Totally unethical. 

Her ‘old ideas’ , I’m shaking my head at that statement, you speak as though because she’s getting on in years her thoughts and beliefs are meaningless .  Put yourself in her place, I hope for your sake that when you reach a certain age that your family give more consideration to your wishes and feelings.

This topic has reminded me of the awful stories of the orphan trains which ran from the East Coast cities of the USA to the Midwest from the mid 1850s to the 1920s. Farms needed labour, orphans and children who had been taken or given into care by their families were put onto trains and shipped across America.  The train would simply stop at a station, the children got out, stood on the platform and were ‘chosen’.  Simply given away. Some went to childless couples, others were merely used as slave labour.
There is an excellent book , fiction but based on fact by Christina Baker Kline, called Orphan Train.