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The answer to this particular question can be seen as soon as you enter Challis’s fish and chip shop in Hessle Road. One wall is covered with photographs of a young female boxer celebrating success in the ring. There’s also a big glossy poster of her advertising an upcoming bout at Hull’s Connexin Arena. Behind the counter, shop owner Aman Dhesi smiles as only a proud Mum can. “I’ve got loads more. They were all over the place but I had to take most of them down during a recent refurbishment,” she says.

The girl on the wall is Aman’s daughter Charan – the first ever British-born Sikh woman to become a professional boxer. “She was actually born in the flat above here,” says Aman pointing to the ceiling. With her husband Mak, she’s owned the shop for 24 years having previously run a fish and chip shop in Newbridge Road. “At first we lived in the upstairs flat. I’ve loved being here from day one.”

Charan is now 22 and first got into boxing as a 13-year-old hanging around a gym where her two brothers Teerth and Amrit were learning the sport. “They all did karate – Charan and the boys – and then it was boxing. We are a sporty family and that’s how we encouraged the kids when they were little. Whatever sport they tried, we would be right behind them. The more Charan boxed, the more she loved it. I’m incredibly proud of what she has achieved. For a while when she was an amateur I watched her through my fingers when she was fighting but I enjoy it more these days. She still lives at home but I don’t see her much during the week. She’s up at 5am every morning to start her training and I’m here all day but we get together on Sunday when we all go to the Sikh Temple. Charan really loves going there.”

Right on cue, her daughter arrives for a chat and some more photographs. Aman smiles once more. Since turning professional last year she’s fought twice and won twice – a knock-out in her debut bout at the Hilton Doubletree hotel in Hull last May and a unanimous points win at Doncaster in November.

“Becoming a professional boxer has been a big step for me but so far it’s worked out really well for me,” she says. “Most importantly, it allows me to concentrate on working hard in training which is something I really enjoy.”

Charan is still a member of the East Hull Boxing Club where it all began nearly a decade ago. Her next big step is her third pro fight at the Connexion Arena on May 30 as part of the Hull Back on Top bill. “I’m looking forward to it. I’m aware I might be a role model for other girls, and particularly Sikh girls, so I try to do my best to show them they can achieve the same things as I have. In a way I suppose it’s like being an ambassador.”

Angus Young

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In today’s cashless society, not everyone remembers what handling sacks of cash was like. Our currency reminiscesnt correspondent Angus Young finds someone who can.

As Hull City head to Wembley for the Championship Play-Off Final nearly every associated financial transaction will be cashless. The final is often dubbed “The £200m match” because of the value to the winning club in securing promotion to the Premier League. However, the days of fans paying in notes and coins for match tickets, transport, hotel accommodation, merchandise and a bite to eat before the game have almost vanished. It was a very different story when lifelong City fan Chris Smith was a lad.

Back in the late 1950s he became the third generation of his family to work on City’s turnstiles. Both his grandfather and father had operated the turnstiles at the club’s original ground in Anlaby Road. “My Dad moved to work on the turnstiles at Boothferry Park when the club moved there in 1946. I was born three years later. When I was old enough I used to go to matches with him to help out. On match days, we used to get a bus to the bottom of Bricknell Avenue and then walk to a house nearby where a Mr Boothby lived. He was in charge of all the turnstiles at Boothferry Park. From there, we would all get in a taxi and go to the ground.”

Young Chris was employed as a runner, taking messages to and from each turnstile operator. “There were turnstiles at each corner of the ground as well as up on the rail halt and it was my job to pass on instructions if one needed to close, when they should re-open or if there was a problem. There were no phones or walkie-talkies in those days, everything was done by word of mouth.”

As well as getting fans safely inside, the turnstile operator’s main task was to collect their money. “When I think about it now, I’m amazed at how much actual money was sloshing about on a match day and most of it was in coins.”

The tallying up and banking operation would typically take place immediately after the game. “I remember all the money would be bagged up and put into two taxis with a policeman always in one of them. We would then drive into town and park in Lowgate outside the Midland Bank on the corner of Silver Street. Each bag was taken out of the taxi and stacked up on a four-wheeled trolley. The trolley was then pushed across the pavement to a cellar entrance which opened on the street. From there, the bags were unloaded into a lift which took them down into a vault in the basement.”

Apart from the drama on the pitch, his abiding memory of those days was the FA Cup quarter-final replay with Chelsea in 1966 after City, then in the Third Division, had snatched a 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge courtesy of two late goals by Ken Wagstaff. A crowd of 46,328 turned up at Boothferry Park for the replay five days later. “The replay was on the same day as the General Election but most of all I remember there hadn’t been enough time to print any tickets, never mind sell them in advance, so it was all pay on the door and most people paid in coins.”

Admission for the game was 12 shillings and sixpence and ten shillings for seats, five shillings standing and two shillings for juniors. The total gate receipt for the match came to £12, 947 – a club record.

Chris said: “I can’t recall if they put on an extra taxi for the delivery to the bank afterwards but I do remember the enormous weight of carrying all those bags of coins around. It can’t have done the taxis’ suspension any good but it probably made anyone planning a heist to think again.”

Angus Young

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