In 1957 he set up Cascade Entertainments Ltd with theatre impresario George Baines and produced "Big Splash" Aqua Show at The Derby Baths in Blackpool.
[citation needed] Success with his theatres led Hinds to diversify into the increasingly popular motion picture industry.
Hinds met his death[clarification needed] while riding his bicycle near his Leatherhead home in 1957, a year after the centenary of the family jewellery business.
His widow eventually sold his remaining shop in Worthing, Sussex to the other half of the family, reuniting the jewellery business.
At the time of his death he had been living with his long term partner Pat Hinds, mother of Susan, for thirteen years.