{"id":68,"date":"2025-04-17T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpresstandt\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2025-04-18T16:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:13:47","slug":"bolton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/index.php\/bolton\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Wirral Peninsula has a splendid canal leading to the sea at Eastham, Birkenhead which also is the birthplace of Adrian Henri and the home of the late Brian Dixon. <br><br>Dixon\u2019s Wrestling Enterprises of Birkenhead; the company he founded and operated from what was once his teen bedroom, grew from his early involvement with professional wrestling as the Secretary of the Jim Breaks fan club.<br><br>Later rebranded All Star Wrestling, Brian Dixon achieved the distinction of being the independent promoter who broke the strangle hold of the Crabtree family on television wrestling. <br><br>This was just before Greg Dyke, in his role as director of programmes at London Weekend Television, cancelled wrestling on TV. He decided no one wanted to spend 45 minutes on a Saturday afternoon watching the grunt and groan boys, in their swimming trunks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fe9cc265 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"806\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BoltonBoxer01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BoltonBoxer01.jpg 806w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BoltonBoxer01-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BoltonBoxer01-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BoltonBoxer2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BoltonBoxer2.jpg 804w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BoltonBoxer2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BoltonBoxer2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wirral Peninsula has a splendid canal leading to the sea at Eastham, Birkenhead which also is the birthplace of Adrian Henri and the home of the late Brian Dixon. Dixon\u2019s Wrestling Enterprises of Birkenhead; the company he founded and operated from what was once his teen bedroom, grew from his early involvement with professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}