If you collect boxing memorabilia you surely will be interested to know that the annual boxing memorabilia fayre is taking place next month, it’s possibly not that well advertised thank’s to the trade paper Boxing News showing little if any interest in helping it gain any exposure! though for a paper that boasts that Lloyd Honeyghan was a World amatuer champion, and that the ill fated Joe Bugner-Ulric Regis fight was the last professional show to have featured in the London borough of Hackney back in 1969, when it clearly wasn’t, Darren Barker our European middleweight champion boxed at the Hackney Empire in 2006! it clearly show’s that there writers might just be out of the achne stage let alone Hackney! talking of Bugner-Regis, looks like they would’nt know the difference from Bognor Regis, let alone Bugner-Regis! and possibly it would be in there interests to attend such a show! maybe they’d learn a thing or three!
I’ve attended this fayre for the last three years now and I can’t recommend this enough, I’ve purchased some rare and hard to obtain items at this fayre and the amount of various memorabilia on offer is amazing, from book’s, gloves, magazines, boxing video’s and dvd’s, photos to anything that’s boxing!
However this year it will be at a new bigger venue, as the old venue has been closed due to the priest of the church closing the hall, you could say it well could be a blessing in disguise! However the new venue is larger than the old one which was in Euston, and has a cleaner look, though I did love the old venue as it lent itself to the very nature of the fayre with it’s 1970’s look!
So where is the new venue, well it’s in Regent’s Park and the start time is 1:30PM TO 5:30PM, Chas Taylor along with his wife Kymberly whom organise and run the fair are pleased with the new place and welcome all to the fair that this year will be situated in the Dick Collins hall!
Even if your not a collector, I’d really recommend that you do come, it’s worth having a look around and the last show’s I been to have all featured some famous boxers, in 2008 there was former Commonwealth welter champ Sylvester Mittee, the year after former World welterweight champion John H Stracey whom actually had a stall selling items himself, also only last year there was former World, British and Commonwealth featherweight king Colin McMillan who also had a stall there along with former World heavyweight champion James J Braddock…….ok I know, it was the guy who portrayed him Tony Longhurst who was selling the very film he played the Cinderella man in called Ten Percent, a great film that I had the honour of reviewing! check his website on how to purchase the film! so bring along a pen and some paper and get some autographs, you never know who’ll you bump into….and if it’s some fat curly haired bloke, that’ll be me!
Michael Angelo Serra
So now for the important bit’s
Venue: Dick Collins hall, Redhill Street, Regents Park, NW1 4DJ
Date: October 15th
Starts: 1.30pm to 5.30 pm
Admission: £2 of which goe’s entirely to the British boxer’s benevolent fund!
If you need any more info then please telephone Chas on 01707 654677 but please do so at a reasonable hour!
