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🥊 Graveyard of Champions is a gripping history of Liverpool’s two iconic boxing arenas – at Pudsey Street and St Paul’s Square. Featuring Liverpool legends such as Nel Tarleton, Alan Rudkin and John Conteh, and drawing on a rich variety of sources, it captures unforgettable fights, fierce local pride and a lasting sporting legacy.

✍️ Originally from Liverpool, raised in Ghana and Zambia in Africa, and now based in Northern Virginia, Stephen Barr is a retired telecommunications professional with a passion for boxing history. Inspired by his grandfather, 1930s featherweight fighter Dick Burke, Steve has spent years researching pre-war Liverpool boxing and supports the historic Everton Red Triangle Boxing Club.

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@EFC_FanAdvisory @henrywinter Henry, these institutions always seem to get rid of the best first!

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@patoonarmy @scousericey @premierleague No🤬

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@Lea_EFC Plus.. the PL recommended a 10 to 12 point penalty before the independent board reviewed. The issue is that the punishment is disproportionate.

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@Lea_EFC These people need to be well armed when they go to these meetings. He said the criteria is clear. The lady should have asked well how is it you get 10 points for going 19mil over but 9 points for going insolvent! What about inflation? What about costs of building a new stadium et

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@CommonsCMS @cj_dinenage @premierleague @Everton First question that should be asked is how do you come to a 10 point deduction for going 19mil over (no accounting for inflation) and a 9 point deduction for going insolvent?

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@FGreenPictures I recently obtained a copy of your painting of the Liverpool Stadium (external view) but came across this painting of the ring. Is this one of yours? If so where can I obtain a copy?

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@clubgame Who are the 8% who think Everton is a well run club? Are they friends and relatives of the board members?

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@CherylSwanick The Latch….any time🥊🥊

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@LDNBOXHISTORY One legend respecting another. Fabulous.

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@markr_1878 20 years?

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@MeadowAngels @paulgre63423363 @CollyhurstABC @chethamslibrary @revealmcr @johnludds He was not captured by the Japanese. He was picked up in Malayan waters by the Royal Navy after 3 hours in the water and taken to a navy base in Singapore.the base was then attacked by the Japanese and Johnny managed to evacuate to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies.

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@MeadowAngels @chethamslibrary @revealmcr @CollyhurstABC @johnludds I have that book and exchanged letters with the author back in the 1980s as my grandfather, Dick Burke, was in that Harry Fleming stable, although a Liverpudlian. Johnny King was in fact my Aunty's godfather!

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@garethboxing @bigdaddybunce Here's a report of the Brown v Ginger Jones fight at mountain Ash.

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@MeadowAngels @chethamslibrary @revealmcr here's some action from that King v Brown bill at Belle Due.

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@MeadowAngels @chethamslibrary @revealmcr That bill was acclaimed as the best ever to be assembled at the time.Included Dick Corbett v Bobby Leitham, Jackie Brown v Young Perez, Dick Burke v Dominic Bernasconi and should have had Jock McAvoy v Clemente Meroni but that one got called off.

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@garethboxing @bigdaddybunce Yes he beat Ginger Jones in front of 7,000 spectatorsby KO in the 9th. Al Brown boxed 18 Brits (20 fights ) during his career, winning 17, drawing 2 and lost once to Sheffield's Johnny Cuthbert by a DQ in the 8th. A phenomenal boxer who fought at bantamweight throughout his caree

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@StDavidsPress @garethboxing @thealexdaley @BoxingNewsED @Books_Wales @repMwynwen @rep_elin @CompassAcademic @CompassRichard @uk_publishers @SWalesBoxing @WelshBoxing Here's a photo of Tommy Farr in his RAF uniform during WW2.

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@StDavidsPress @garethboxing @thealexdaley @BoxingNewsED @Books_Wales @repMwynwen @rep_elin @CompassAcademic @CompassRichard @uk_publishers @SWalesBoxing @WelshBoxing Thought you might appreciate this photo showing my grandfather Dick Burke (pre war bantamweight from Liverpool) with the great Tommy Farr sometime during the war. Tommy Farr also joined the RAF, which was the force of choice for many professional boxers at the outbreak of war!

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@StDavidsPress @thealexdaley @garethboxing @BoxingNewsED @Books_Wales @repMwynwen @rep_elin @CompassAcademic @CompassRichard @uk_publishers @SWalesBoxing @WelshBoxing and the great heavyweight Tommy Farr, who took Joe Louis all the way!