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“The wrestlers of Kenidjack” is a Cornish supernatural legend set at Carn Kenidjack, a granite tor on the moorland between St Just and the Tregeseal valley in West Penwith. The tale describes two miners who, returning home one night, witness a wrestling match near the carn presided over by the Devil; when one of the […]
Identification Field Detail Archive reference DWS/PRI/CIG/1913/18-20 Object type Cigarette cards (tobacco premium) Title of series Wrestling and Ju-Jitsu: A Series of 25 Card numbers 18, 19, 20 Section heading Devon and Cornwall Style Publisher John Player & Sons, Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Great Britain & Ireland), Ltd., Nottingham Date of issue 1913 […]
This article constitutes the first modern scholarly account of the rise and decline of the Devonshire wrestling style during the nineteenth century. Writing from the Department of Economic History at the University of Exeter, Porter situates the sport within the broader historiographical expansion of sport history during the 1980s, noting that whilst cricket, football, prizefighting, […]
John Slade, Champion Wrestler (Devon and Cornwall). Featured in The Illustrated Sporting News. Engraved by Moore V. Williamson. Original page in the archives of DWS.
Appearing in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, pp.65. Illustrated by Alfred Concanen.
A souvenir programme created for the 150th anniversary of the Cann vs Polkinghorne match. This event took place at Polkinghorne’s public house at St. Columb. This programme was gifted to The Devonshire Wrestling Society by Gerry Cawley, Historian of The Cornish Wrestling Association in 2015.