Tag: dave boy green

  • #106: ‘Sweet Fighting Man: Ring of Truth’ by Melanie Lloyd

    #106: ‘Sweet Fighting Man: Ring of Truth’ by Melanie Lloyd

    Hi! It’s been a couple of months since I last posted. As I mentioned in my last post, I’m preparing to start a creative writing MA so have a lot of pre-reading (and writing!) that I’ve chosen to get into ahead of that course beginning. Also, for any of you that don’t already know, Lizzy…

  • #49: ‘Chatteris Thunderbolt’ by Bob Lonkhurst

    #49: ‘Chatteris Thunderbolt’ by Bob Lonkhurst

    ‘Chatteris Thunderbolt – The Eric Boon Story’ is a biography of Eric Boon, written by Bob Lonkhurst. Despite going to secondary school in Chatteris and walking past a portrait of Dave ‘Boy’ Green everyday, and being very aware of his boxing legacy, I had never heard of Eric Boon – the original boxing Fen Tiger…

  • #32: ‘Fen Tiger’ by Bob Lonkhurst

    #32: ‘Fen Tiger’ by Bob Lonkhurst

    ‘Fen Tiger – The Success of Dave “Boy” Green’ is an official biography compiled and written by Bob Lonkhurst. I was born in south London but when I was young my parents moved to Cambridgeshire and I ended up attending secondary school at Cromwell Community College in Chatteris. Sport, mainly rugby, was a big part…