[4] After the war, Anquetil worked mainly on coastal ships from Liverpool, picking up minerals from local mines on the west coast of Wales.
[4] The tough times continued with high unemployment and low wages as a result of the worldwide Great Depression from 1929 until the start of World War II.
Particularly hardest hit by economic problems were the industrial and mining areas in the north of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Unemployment reached 70% in some areas at the start of the 1930s (with more than 3 million out of work nationally) and many families depended entirely on payments from local government known as the dole’.
[12] Following the Uba riots of 1937 Anquetil was deported to Rodrigues by the British colonial government for organising strikes in defence of dockers' rights in 1938.