Acknowledgments

I am indebted to boxing record compiler Harold Alderman for supplying details on Benny Marshall, to prize-ring historian Tony Gee, author of the book Up To Scratch (Queen Anne Press) and to the keepers of the MacFie collection at Liverpool University. Many friends and relatives also provided photographs and helped with recollections, particularly Caley and Kathleen Botton, Alan Bowers, Ken Cooper, Bob Dawson, Simon Docherty, Henry Francis, Mick Harper, Tommy Lee, Frank McAleer, Dave Russell, Siddy Smith, John Taylor, John Walton and Pat Wilson.