[2] In the 1930s he worked for a signwriting company in his native town Bromsgrove, where his commissions included designing film posters for the Rank Organisation.
[1] From 1941 to 1945, during World War II, he was sent to Cairo to work as a camouflage artist (painter).
[1][3] After the war, until his retirement in 1976, he was director of a silk-screen printing company in Surrey[clarification needed].
[1] He and his wife Sylvia then moved to Yorkshire[clarification needed] and he painted over 100 pub signs for these businesses across that region.
[1] In 1984 his family moved to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk in which area he continued work for his most frequent client,[1] the Greene King Brewery who are based there — he created more than 250 signs for Greene King pubs.