Boxing - Eric Boon V Len Wickwar At Leicester 1939

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Full titles read: "BOXING - ERIC BOON V LEN WICKWAR AT LEICESTER [Leicestershire]"

L/S's of spectators running for cover from the rain in an open air stadium (could possibly be Filbert Street). Various shots of the fight underway . The fight looks quite close between the champion Boon and Wickwar...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20117
Sort Number:
39/058
Time in/Out:
01:31:05:00 / 01:32:01:00
Canister:
39/58
Film ID:
1017.31
Issue Date:
20/07/1939

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