When this picture was taken Howard Winstone had just turned professional, standing with him are Eddie Thomas and David and Bobby Giles. In the front row (left to right): Malcolm Price, a Welsh junior champion and a Welsh International; Gerald Jones, a flyweight champion and Welsh International; Don James, Boy's Club of Wales champion, Welsh International, Welsh flyweight champion and a British NCB champion; John Gamble, a British welter weight champion and a Welsh International.
The boxers are celebrating Don James winning the Viscount Hyndley Trophy (the first time the trophy had left England) and becoming the British National Coal Board boxing champion.
Price, Jones, James and Gamble all went on to fight professionally. Don James has been a big influence on boxing in Merthyr; he trained Johnny Owen before the European bantamweight began hitting the headlines.
Source:
Merthyr Tydfil Public Library (1997) "Valley lives, book 2: boxers and boxing in the Merthyr Tydfil Valley".