This brown leather head guard was worn by Randolph Turpin throughout his boxing career. Randolph was born in Leamington Spa in 1928. With his brothers Dick and Jackie he took up boxing ...

World middleweight boxing champion Randolph Turpin trained there in 1951, and in the 1970s and 1980s medieval jousting tournaments were held. From 1985 the site was abandoned to New Age travellers ...