THE Looking Back item about Bolton's boxing heritage has prompted a couple of interesting responses.
There was no year on the Bolton Boxing Stadium bill I reproduced, but Mr Stanley Davies, of Crompton Court, Little Lever, has done some detective work with the help of the Perpetual Calendar in his copy of Webster's dictionary.
He has worked out that the night which saw fights involving Tommy Rose, Joe Greenwood, Arthur Killeen and others was on Friday, April 10, 1931.
On the same bill, a boxer described as 'Y'ng' Chadwick of Westhoughton fought Joe Openshaw of Bolton.
A reader, Mr Colin Chadwick of Dobb Brow, Westhoughton, thinks this was a reference to brother Jim - now aged 91 and still living in Westhoughton with his wife, May.
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