Bombadier Billy Wells training at Selsey - further image below
Bombadier Billy Wells training at Selsey, Sussex 1913

Wells is probably best remembered as the original man who
banged the gong at the beginning of J. Arthur Rank's films.
"The Red Lion Pub in Handcross, often hosted travelling boxing booths during the early 1900s.
A former British heavyweight boxing champion, 'Bombardier' Billy Wells, was landlord of the pub in the 1930s."

Red Lion Pub in Handcross, Sussex


Bombadier Billy Wells training at Selsey - click to return
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