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Edinburgh

Sparta

 Amateur Boxing Club

Sparta Amateur Boxing Club  c.1947

Edinburgh Entertainment  -  Sport  -  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to Ian Foster, Perth, Western Australia  and his brother (extreme right, bottom row)

 

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     Edinburgh Entertainment  -  Sport  -  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club ©

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for the restoration

     Edinburgh Entertainment  -  Sport  -  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club  -Photograph c.1947  -  restored ©

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     Edinburgh Entertainment  -  Sport  -  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club ©

 

Who is in the photograph?

Thank you to Ian Foster, Perth, Western Australia, for sending me this photograph.

Ian wrote:

Front Row

"The person at the extreme right in the front row is my brother.

21October 2005

Thank you to Henry (Hank) Kaczynski, US Army, Retired,  Annapolis, Maryland for the following message.

Hank wrote:

2nd Row
from front

"The gentleman in the second row in the white fisherman's (turtleneck) sweater is George Shaw, my father-in-law who passed away in 1978.

George was a great guy and the Sparta Athletic Club was his pride and joy when he managed it.  He took the Scottish Team to the Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia.  I can't recall the year."

23 October 2005

Four Houstons

Thank you to Averil Bishop (nee Houston), Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA, who recognised this photograph and wrote:

"I just wanted to let you know that there are four Houstons in the picture of the Sparta Amateur Boxing Club.  They are:

FRONT ROW

4th from right:   Alan Houston

2nd ROW
from front

5th from left:  John Houston (Treasurer),
and father of Jim, Johnnie and Alan.

3rd ROW:
from front

 4th from right:   Johnnie Houston

BACK ROW

right:   Jim Houston.

This picture hung on the wall for years in the house I grew up in at Burdiehouse."

Thank you to John Houston, Dayton, Ohio, USA who wrote:

"I was very surprised to find the group photograph of the Sparta club taken in 1947.   It brought back many memories of my childhood and upbringing in Edinburgh.

I was a member of the Sparta club from 1946/47 to 1955 and I am in the photograph, in the third row.   Two of my brothers and my father are also in the photograph.

We were told that the name Sparta was taken from the ancient Greek soldiers of Sparta,  “every man a brick”

The club was founded by Jimmie Robertson and the brothers George and Willie Shaw.   The person in the second row with the white polo jersey is Willie Shaw.   I have attached a photo taken 1 or 2 years later in which both George and Willie are there.

The photograph was taken on a Sunday morning in the playground of Broughton School, at the other end of McDonald Road from the Sparta clubhouse.

I also attended Broughton School, primary and secondary from 1946 to 1955.

I recognize many of the people in the photograph, but remember only a few names."

FRONT ROW

My brother Alan Houston is in the front row, 4th from the right.    He would be aged 6 or 7 at the time of the photograph, I was 9 or 10.

2nd ROW
from front

From the right are:

1st:  Willie Shaw (one of the founders);

2nd:  I can’t remember;

3rd:  Mr. Horne, committee member and father of Robert (Bobby) Horne who is in the third row;

4th:  Mr. Burgess (President or Treasurer);

5th:  John Houston, my father;

6th:  Jimmie Robertson (co founder);

7th:  Mr. Anderson, trainer;

8th:  Trainer, can’t remember his name.

3rd ROW:
from front

From the right are:

1st:  He was the janitor at Broughton Primary School and lived there in the house there in the playground. I can’t remember his name;

4th:  Me, John Houston, standing next to a giant on my right who I cannot remember.

8th:  Bobby Horne, several time Scottish champion.

 John Houston:  Dayton, Ohio, USA, May 5, 2006

Thank you to John for also sending me a photograph of Sparta Amateur Boxing Club, taken around 1949.

 

Sparta:  Small Photo

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