It was flattened by the luftwaffe in 1940, originally a boxing venue, it had a relatively short life for boxing and wrestling 1934-1940. The boxing promoter Jack Solomons got his start there.
The Devonshire Hall, Hackney was widely known as the Devonshire Club, because it operated on Thursday, and Sunday nights, to operate on a Sunday night, the sabbath, they made the customers become members of the club, hence The Devonshire Club. It was famous as a pro boxing club, before wrestling promoter J.Bodinetz introduced "All-In" wrestling around 1935, Bert Assirati worked there in 1938 when he opposed 24st Ray St Bernard. He also promoted at Catford, Southend, Mile End Arena, and Gillingham, all his programmes all looked the same from the same printers. your programme is from the year 1939, can you show the inside wrestling bill.
Best for now Mike Hallinan (I love the "All-In" period).
It was flattened by the luftwaffe in 1940, originally a boxing venue, it had a relatively short life for boxing and wrestling 1934-1940. The boxing promoter Jack Solomons got his start there.
Devonshire Hall was used by the Salvation Army until 1930 as a Receiving Centre.These days it is split into very expensive flats