Greetings From London!

[stevetw64]

Hi everyone,

Greetings from London ! First of all my thanks to Andrew Davidson who has been helping me with a project - that is in response to a forum on this site about Nate compiling a list of body builders from years gone by.

My father, Hugh Wallace (deceased), was a very good friend of Wally Harper who was Mr New Zealand in 1952. In addition to some great photos that I have been trying to post up, but not having much success, as even when they are zipped I'm getting a message saying they are too big (can anyone help?), I have a framed pencil etching of my father, Wally and two other body building friends and the caption underneath Wally says "Wally Harper from Howdon, Mr New Zealand 1952". (Howdon is a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England).

My father told me the wrong year had been put on the etching so that might be worth double checking if anyone has access to records. Over the years I have done a search on Wally Harper via google but nothing ever comes up. It is one of my regrets that I never questioned my father a bit more closely about Wally and his body building pals.

I hope once the photos and etching are posted up they will show bodybuilding from a bygone age, by men who left the UK at the end of the second world war for warmer climes and the friendship of those far from home.

All the best , Steve Wallace.

[I Declare War]

Hi everyone,

Greetings from London ! First of all my thanks to Andrew Davidson who has been helping me with a project - that is in response to a forum on this site about Nate compiling a list of body builders from years gone by.

My father, Hugh Wallace (deceased), was a very good friend of Wally Harper who was Mr New Zealand in 1952. In addition to some great photos that I have been trying to post up, but not having much success, as even when they are zipped I'm getting a message saying they are too big (can anyone help?), I have a framed pencil etching of my father, Wally and two other body building friends and the caption underneath Wally says "Wally Harper from Howdon, Mr New Zealand 1952". (Howdon is a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England).

My father told me the wrong year had been put on the etching so that might be worth double checking if anyone has access to records. Over the years I have done a search on Wally Harper via google but nothing ever comes up. It is one of my regrets that I never questioned my father a bit more closely about Wally and his body building pals.

I hope once the photos and etching are posted up they will show bodybuilding from a bygone age, by men who left the UK at the end of the second world war for warmer climes and the friendship of those far from home.

All the best , Steve Wallace.

Hello Steve

Try one of these methods to resize your images:

If you have Windows 7/8, try this:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-NZ/wind ... sing-Paint

If you have Windows XP, try this:

http://dan.hersam.com/2005/01/18/resizi ... indows-xp/

You'll need to do each image individually using the above methods. If you have any issues, don't hesitate to send me a PM... I'm sure we can work through it together.

Cheers,

Martin

[stevetw64]

Martin,

Many thanks for your response. I will follow the guidance you kindly responded with over the coming weekend and pm if I have any problems.

All the best, Steve

[stevetw64]

Here is my father, Hugh Wallace, lifting the weights with Wally Harper observing, who was Mr New Zealand in 1950. The story my father tells is that Wally went up to Palmerston North, North Island, and won the competition that attracted a lot of press coverage.

In two years' time I will be 50 and at that point it will be some 45 years since I was in NZ. I hope to be celebrating my November birthday on the beach in Dunedin where Wally and my father had many happy days as young men.

[stevetw64]

Here is Wally with a croc and you can see that he still has a tremendous physique.

[Pseudonym]

Hey Steve, welcome! Good to see you got the photos resized ok - thanks for posting them. It's interesting to see photos of early bodybuilders. It makes you realise just how beneficial today's supplements are. :nod:

[nosher]

Hi Steve..Great pics mate..Makes you realise how much harder those guys trained for such modest gains...We got it far to easy.. :clap:

[narcosis73]

Hi Steve..Great pics mate..Makes you realise how much harder those guys trained for such modest gains...We got it far to easy.. :clap:

have to agree nos, the crew back in the day would have to have relied on the food they ate and bro science of that era, no protein powder, no creatine and differently no gear, fcuk living back in that era, imagine trying to bulk without McD's :pfft: .

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[nosher]

":2zdt728q]protein powder and creatine arent going to make much difference. the guys in the pics probably look better than most of the natty guys on here who use modern supps.

Hi Steve..Great pics mate..Makes you realise how much harder those guys trained for such modest gains...We got it far to easy.. :clap:

have to agree nos, the crew back in the day would have to have relied on the food they ate and bro science of that era, no protein powder, no creatine and differently no gear, fcuk living back in that era, imagine trying to bulk without McD's :pfft: .

Shit..after 18 yrs of training on an off I must of spent a fortune on powder and it dont make any difference....I want me money back lol :cry:

[jimmybro1]

":3dkz5uwx]protein powder and creatine arent going to make much difference. the guys in the pics probably look better than most of the natty guys on here who use modern supps.

Hi Steve..Great pics mate..Makes you realise how much harder those guys trained for such modest gains...We got it far to easy.. :clap:

have to agree nos, the crew back in the day would have to have relied on the food they ate and bro science of that era, no protein powder, no creatine and differently no gear, fcuk living back in that era, imagine trying to bulk without McD's :pfft: .

Shit..after 18 yrs of training on an off I must of spent a fortune on powder and it dont make any difference....I want me money back lol :cry:

Why would it? Its just a source of protein, they had other sources available.

I think the biggest improvement as mentioned above is knowledge and the anabolics used today. However there is still a bit of broscience floating around!

[nosher]

Getting enough protein intake is by far easier with todays powders and also easier for todays busier lifestyles I would have thought..Also meal replacement shakes/bars/ and the like make it so easier than those guys from by gone days.. :clap:

[stevetw64]

Hi, thanks for all the comments. Really interesting to see the discussion develop. Just a point about food - remember this was just after the war in 1948 and the UK was still on rations. It therefore makes the size that these men achieved quite amazing. Until they arrived in NZ, they had had very little fresh meat, eggs etc. Had Wally not had access to all the food available in NZ, I doubt very much he would have been Mr New Zealand as he would simply not have had the muscles.