Bill Perry, boxer, Eccleshall
William Albert 'Bill' Perry was a master butcher and a leading amateur boxer in the area. His father, James Perry, was a butcher at 47 New Street, Stafford when Bill was born on 7 January 1908. In 1927, ...
Boxers, army camp, Milford Common
Men from the North Staffordshire Regiment pictured at a camp on Milford Common during the Great War. Third from right, in shirtsleeves, is Jack Harper. In civilian life he was a ganger on the railway ...
Boxing at Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Boxing Group, Stafford Grammar School
This image appeared in the Staffordshire Chronicle, dated Saturday March 30th 1946. It shows the newly formed Boxing Club at King Edward VI Grammar School, in front of the 1928 extension.
Front row ...
Boxing match, Borough Hall, Stafford
This scene shows drama in the boxing ring, as the referee stopped the contest between M Fellows, of Wolverhampton, and B Davenport, of Tunstall, in the Staffordshire Association of Boys' Clubs Boxing ...
Boxing match, Woodseaves area
An impromptu outdoor boxing match. Please contact us if you recognise the people and place.
Photographer: Harry Osbourne of Woodseaves.
Chris Kirby, boxer, Hopton, near Stafford
Chris Kirby was a familiar figure in boxing circles around Stafford in the 1940s. This photograph was taken outside the R.A.F. gymnasium at Hopton, later to be the site of Hopton Garage.
Joe Louis, Yarnfield
Joe Louis (1914-1981) was an American professional boxer who was world heavyweight champion between 1937 and 1949. He is reckoned to be one of the greatest boxers of all time. Louis enlisted as a private ...
Lea Hall Lads' Boxing Club, Rugeley
Boxers pictured at Lea Hall Colliery Sports & Social Club, Sandy Lane, Rugeley. Back row, far left is Todd Whitehead. Front row, far left is Steve Moffat.
A Rugeley Times photograph (courtesy of ...
Police Boxing Team, Wednesbury
Wednesbury Divisional Police Boxing Team, winners of the Staffordshire County Police Boxing Championship,1948.
Back row, left to right: G.A. Taylor (trainer), R.F.G. Evans, T.H. Higgs, E. Bennett, ...
Stafford Constabulary Boxers
Group photograph taken during Staffordshire Constabulary Boxing championships.
The uniformed Sergeant standing to the right of the group of boxers is Stephen Wright, who was originally from Werrington. ...
Staffordshire County Police Boxing Tournament, Stafford
The Stafford team from the Borough and Headquarters Divisions are photographed in the dressing rooms during the annual boxing tournament of the Staffordshire County Police Force which was held on Thursday ...
Staffordshire County Police, Boxing training, Stafford
The first training session for the Staffordshire County Police boxing tournament due to be held in November 1952. Police Constable L Wilcock, a former champion and trainer of the 1952 Stafford Borough ...