Sheffield boxers from the Thirties.

[Jamie450 10]

Feel free to pm me on here anytime

I'm nor sure how to use this could I give you my coaches email address? I know he has just ordered a lot stuff on arley hollingsworth

[big un 10]

What is your coaches name?

What gym does he coach at?

What stuff has he ordered about Arly and where from?

[Jamie450 10]

What is your coaches name?

What gym does he coach at?

What stuff has he ordered about Arly and where from?

 

It's mick Kennedy and his son Jamie there gym is the millennium gym in Rotherham.

I found a guy online who specialises in old boxers I can forward his email address on if you would like?

 

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It's mick Kennedy and his son Jamie there gym is the millennium gym in Rotherham.

I found a guy online who specialises in old boxers I can forward his email address on if you would like?

 

This is the guy with the information email address

[email protected]

[woggle 10]

Brendon Ingle will remember most of these.

He knew my mums uncle Tiger Rawson,

[Jamie450 10]

Brendon Ingle will remember most of these.

He knew my mums uncle Tiger Rawson,

 

Brendon does know them I'm sure mick trained with him

[big un 10]

Heyup Jamie

Sent you a PM mate

[Jamie450 10]

Heyup Jamie

Sent you a PM mate

 

I haven't got it mate you can email me at [email protected] not sure how to use this site

[bantycock 10]

I haven't got it mate you can email me at [email protected] not sure how to use this site

 

Albert greatorix ring any bells ? Pardon the pun

[SuzieBarron 0]

On 30/11/2011 at 11:17, xenia said:

Frankie was a lovely man very quiet and gentle. He used to go from pub to pub as a hawker, that is he would have a great big suitcase full of hacksaw blades, braces, shaving cream, socks,anything he could carry. He would always ask the landlords permission and then would open the suitcase an display his wares.

 

I was once in the Wellington on Brightside Lane when he came in, everybody liked him. But there was one obnoxious type in who started rummaging through the suitcase and throwing Frankies goods about. The landlord looked over and said "Go on Frankie smack him". It was like a snake striking, Frankie hit the bloke, who was a big guy, straight on the whiskers he went down like a felled tree.

 

The bloke was out cold and we carried him outside and propped him up against the wall. When we stopped laughing we bought a few items from Frankie and he went on his way stepping over the idiot on his way down the road.

 

There are a few stories about Frankie, like when he was the doorman at the Astoria on Attercliffe Common, the Managers name was Mr Nelson, who, funnily enough had one eye. He had been having a lot of bother in the Astoria and he set Frankie on to sort ot out. He bought Frankie a red uniform with a red peaked cap. He looked like a Lithuanion Field Marshal. One night a fight started and Frankie was outside breaking it up. He was beating the crap out a bloke about three times bigger than him, straight lefts right crosses left hooks, no dirty work and he wouldnt stop, eventually Nelson came down and shouted " Im stopping it" and jumped in like a boxing referee. Frankie stopped waved his hands in the air and went to shake hands with his victim. Frankie had gone back in time and was in the ring.

 

I make him sound violent and indeed he was in a violent profession. He was actually a lovely man very kind and polite, a real gent.

 

 

 

 

Frankie Barron was my Granddad. He died when I was only a baby in 1985. I am sat with my Aunt Edna, Frankie's Daughter and we are getting so much joy and smiles after reading these memories others have of him. 

We knew and loved him as a gentle giant with a boxing soul.  Any more stories are welcome :) Thank you for sharing. 

[YoungWilf 0]

Soft ayperth

I've just refound this forum hence the delay in replying.

George adams and his wife were longtime friends of my parents.

My father used to meet George every Saturday at the Lane, then to Tuckwoods for a meal then an evenings snooker.   On rare occasion I was allowd to join with them.

According to my father George would have a fight in the afternoon (a full15 rounds I believe)  and then  another the same evening.   The Boxing Board of Control would have a dickie fit these days

 

If I remeber correctly a fish and chip shop on Broad Street also comes to mind.

 

Young Wilf

 

[bazza63 12]

I  rember a guy Frankie Barron beleive he was a boxer in 30s 40s he used to go round pubs selling goods out of suitcase. also Henry Hall lived in Worrall.

[Christine Davie 0]

On 19/09/2008 at 15:13, peterw said:

 

See my earlier post, just above you. The two boxers only met the once.

I think butcher was my uncle my dad told me once he had a brother half brother I  believe but he said he was called buster gascoigne, there must have been a family gall out as I never knew of him till then