Young Pullen found work feeding the local workhorses, earning a shilling a week, showing early entrepreneurial flair and sparking his love of horses.

[7] Pullen gained a reputation as a builder of innovative houses[8] and luxury apartments, and examples of these buildings can be found at Florida Court in Bromley,[9] with three blocks in a low-density, five-acre landscaped plot.

At Beulah Hill Pullen built Tropicana, a groundbreaking block of flats to Lowmans design, climbing up Spurgeon Road with balconies having a grand view over southwest London.

Pullen was a frequent visitor to Kenya where he created a racing complex in Nairobi and embarked on an ambitious project there to build a township including schools and hospitals.

These included his own brand of bleach "Pulbro", "Pink" paraffin, wallpapers and paints, DIY and home appliances, cutlery and crockery, dustbins and ice-creams .

Pullen became a millionaire and he enjoyed his wealth, and by July 1965 had bought his first new Rolls-Royce - Silver Cloud III Coupe from James Young, a luxury coachbuilder located in Bromley.

[15] It was as such that he was interviewed by the Radio Times magazine ("Six owners in search of a winner" by Russell Twisk) in 1972, having especially bought a horse on Josh Gifford's recommendation for that year's Grand National at Aintree.