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Boxing Venues of British Boxing
Colston Hall
Briston, Colston Street, England
Site Rating 1 (Make these what you want)
Seating Capacity 2000
Colston Hall is currently know a Bristol Beacon. Has been and still is a concert hall first opening in 1867. It became a popular place for classical music and theatre. In the mid 1900s starting around 1951 wrestling matches and probably Boxing during that time, came into presentation there. It was one of the most important rock music venues in Britain in the 1960s.
It's been redeveloped several times. It was gutted by fires in 1898 and 1945. The photo shown of it appears to be as it looked in the 50's and 60s at least then. A Getty Photo seen on line shows pretty much this same image with cars that look to be from that time era in front of it.
A Wiki aricle that much of this info is from note the hall capacity as 2,075. Sure that varies with what is being shown there. The decision to rename it was taken in 2017 to coincide with a major redevelopement of the venue after a number of years of debates and campaigns regarding Colston's ties to the Atlantic slave trade.
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