Billy Wood Collection Photographs and Postcards 178C128 Correspondence 178F42 Newspaper Cuttings and Scrapbooks 178G55 Business Records 178H33 Programmes 178K51 Posters 178R51 Various 178Z63 178C128.1-150 Billy Wood photographs and postcards 1900s-1960s Black and white photographs and negatives related to Billy Wood and his travelling boxing booth including the front of his boxing and wrestling booth, the boxing ring, photographs of boxers and wrestlers and photographs of family members, the photographs show Billy Wood, Johnny Stewart, Tommy Wood, Jackie Rankin, Henry Strand, Annie Strand, Alf Wilden, Mick Miller, Larry Hunt Lincoln, Stephen Cobra, Alex Buxton, David Wood, Molly Wood, Annie Wood, Iris Taylor, Dodo Williams, Johnny Williams, Joe Hawthorne, Bob Barlow, Master F. Williams, Jack Ellis, Bobby Dobs, Jack Land, Johnny Kilroy, Iron Joe and Joe Beckit at Doncaster, Derbyshire, Kent, Nottingham Goose Fair, Kings Lynn, Kettering Feast, Various sizes 150 items Billy Wood Collection 178F42.1 Correspondence 1951-1979 Various items of correspondence addressed to Billy Wood, mostly of personal nature, some mention his business, includes a letter from Bill Tomlinson regarding council refusal to grant Billy a licence to run his show, Typescript and manuscript, Various sizes 13 items Billy Wood Collection 178G55.1 Newspaper Cuttings 1974 A newspaper cutting and three issues of Wrestling Review, Various sizes 4 items Billy Wood Collection 178H33.1 Billy Wood's Business Records 1931-1974 Billy Wood's business records including address books, boxing and wrestling fight details including names of fighters and locations, takings ledger, personal contact directory from 1932 to 1959, business cards for himself and F. Ward amusement caterer, Showmen's Guild membership cards for 1971 and 1974, Ilkeston market toll fair deposit and receipts, a cheque, receipts and correspondence from Orton and Spooner for the construction of show fronts in 1931, City of Nottingham notices to fairground shows and machine owners and Goose Fair floor plan, City of Nottingham receipt for show at the Goose Fair in 1970, a statement by Billy regarding an incident at Football Close, Baldock, Clacton Traders & Industry Fair brochure, correspondence with solicitor, British Boxing Board of Control bulletins, pension or allowance order book, headed letter paper for Somercotes Saxon Amateur Boxing Club, documents from Bryan Elder Chartered Surveyors, letter from Hertfordshire County Council Boxing and Wrestling licence application, letter from the Professional Boxers' Association electing Billy Wood honorary life member, two issues of Amusement Trades Equipment News and other correspondence, business records and promotional images, Manuscript and typescript Various sizes 71 items Billy Wood Collection 178K51.1 Heavyweight Championship of Great Britain programme 16 November 1950 Black and white photograph of two boxers on the front cover on a red background with black and yellow type, inside information about the fighters and officials, introduction by Jack Solomons, black and white photographs and cartoons, articles about boxers including Bruce Woodcock, Jack Gardner, Don Cockell, Lloyd Marshall, Terry Ratcliffe, Eddie Cardew, Eddie Thomas, Titi Clavel, Denny Dawson, Ivor Simpson, Johnny Williams and George Kaplan and programme of fights, contains some hand written annotations, Printed by Welbecson Press Ltd., 39-43 Battersea High St., London, S.W. 11 13p.p 211mm x 270mm Billy Wood Collection 178K51.2 1951 Carnival of Champions for the Festival of Great Britain programme 1951 Event presented by Jack Solomons, black type on white paper containing information about the fighters and officials, introduction by Jack Solomons, black and white photographs of fighters and commentators, cartoons and articles about the fighters including Jack Gardner, Don Cockell and Randolf Turpin and programme of fights including Jack Gardner, Cesar Brion, Don Cockell, Nick Barone, Randolph Turpin, Jackie Keough, Johnny Williams, Jo Weidin and others and information on some of the boxers, 17p.p Printed by Welbecson Press Ltd, Battersea High St., London, S.W. 11, 215mm x 270mm Billy Wood Collection 178K51.3 Free-Style Wrestling programmes Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray, 9 February to 16 March 1959, Black type on pink, green, orange and white paper for each one of the programmes, contains programme inside of fights between Spike O'Reilly, Davey Jones, The Red Demon, Johna Datas, Flash Elliott, Roy La Rue, Rontos the Bull, John Chambers, Jack Landoss, Ray Rigley, Danny Curtis, Less Parry, Duncan Roberts, the Masked Marvel, George Dawson, Paul Armstrong, Dave Griffiths, Rory O'Calahan, Douglas Cordwell and Max Blackely, also contain hand written annotations, 130mm x 208mm 4 items Billy Wood Collection 178R51.1 Wrestling poster No date Pleasure Gardens Theatre Annexe, Bouverie Road West Folkestone, Sunday 7 August and every Sunday, Robert Duranton versus Tony Mancelli, plus 3 supporting contests, Black and white photograph of a bare chested man on the left hand side and black type on pink paper, contains hand written annotation on reverse, also part of the same poster with hand written annotations on reverse, Printed by Brixton Printers Ltd., 313 Brixton Road S.W.9, 230mm x 145mm 2 items Billy Wood Collection 178R51.2 Dale Martin Promotions, Wrestling! No date Pleasure Gardens Theatre Annexe, Bouverie Road West Folkestone, Sunday 14 August and every Sunday night, Gordon Nelson versus Big Bill Verna, Black Kwango versus Harry Kendall, Eddie Saxon versus Bob Archer O'Brien, Charlie Fisher versus Irish Ivor Barratt, Black type on red paper, Printed by Brixton Printers Ltd., 313 Brixton Road S.W.9, 142mm x 226mm Billy Wood Collection 178Z63.1 Various items including paperwork related to The Dingles Fairground Heritage Trust's Bioscope Appeal and the donation of Billy Wood's boxing show to the Trust, Billy Wood letter headed paper and a programme for Mannequin Parades at Clacton-on-Sea, Various sizes 6 items Billy Wood Collection .