Prize fight at Handsworth

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Date:1882

Description:A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Gazette, which gives details of a hearing at the West Bromwich police court for the offence of prize fighting.
A police constable Raven had come across the accused,Issac (Boxer) Bradley and Henry Gretton, both from Farm Street, fighting in Leonard Road, Handsworth,while surrounded by a crowd of 100 onlookers.

Taken from the G.H. Osborne Newscuttings collection. Handsworth 1867-1908.

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Handsworth Crime & Punishment Contact Sports 1837 - 1900 (Victorian Period)

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Donor ref:LF 93.1 G.H. Osborne Collection. (15/5643)

Source: Local Studies & History Department , Birmingham Central Library

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