MOURNERS lined the streets to pay their respects to heavyweight boxing champion Sir Henry Cooper.
Fans travelled from across the UK to Oxted, Surrey, to watch Sir Henry’s cortege make its way to his funeral service.
The boxer, known affectionately to his fans as “Our ’Enry”, died, aged 76, at his son’s home in Oxted earlier this month.
The former British, Commonwealth and European champion fought more than 50 times, famously knocking down the unstoppable Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, in 1963.
Onlookers bowed their heads in unison as the cortege passed, the Union flag draping Sir Henry’s coffin bringing the only splash of colour to the sombre proceedings.
