A press photograph of Annie Moore who was a professional boxer and toured the country fighting in the boxing booths, sold with a second press photogra

A press photograph of Annie Moore who was a professional boxer and toured the country fighting in the boxing booths, sold with a second press photograph depicting Annie boxing her sister Maggie with her brother far left and his wife far right; together with three pages of manuscript notes by a journalist and a typescript page Annie Moore stood nearly 6ft tall and weighed about 11 stone 4lbs. when she fought and would take on men as well as women. She came from a boxing family, her father was ''Professor'' Bill Moore a 23-stone giant of a man. She would do as many as ten or twelve fights a night. The boxing booths she fought with included such boxers as Len Johnson, Sam Minto & Stanley Welch. Her brother seen in the photograph died after receiving a severe punch in a fight. Before the war the Moore family were running boxing booths in Scotland but moved south afterwards settling on the edge of what was to become Catterick Camp in North Yorkshire and when the Army did arrive they became a major entertainment for the troops engaged in building the new camp. Annie would wear her fighting dress, plush jacket & knickerbockers and stand outside a booth waiting for challengers for a prize of £5. She sometimes boxed with gloves, sometimes bare knuckled. She is said to have never been beaten and was proclaimed Champion of the World. Eventually the Army authorities closed the boxing booths down and the family switched to running a taxi service for soldiers. Annie married a soldier and Mrs Robinson as she became eventually settled in Richmond.