I went to work for a local cow keeper, Joseph Owen at 15 Ellison Street, off Great Homer Street. The cows were kept in what was called a shippon.

I delivered milk in bottles in a cast iron tray, attached to the front of my bike. I delivered in the Great Homer Street area - out to Everton Valley, which included cycling up the brow. I used to push the bike up there.

I could also go to the shippon to get fresh milk. I just took a jug down there and they milked the cow then and there!

I was then a bread delivery boy, aged 14, for Louis T. Kelly in Sleepers Hill. This was l932. I got £1 a week.

Louis was the father of Theo Kelly, the Everton Manager.

I used to ride a Rudge delivery bike with a big basket in front, a bit like a small penny farthing bike.
I’d go as far as Gladstone Dock and deliver to the dock gateman there. It was very safe, virtually no cars on the roads.

I used to have to go in on a Sunday to put a sort of cauldron into the ovens, to get them ready for the Monday bake. They used to bake "cottage loaves", "viennas" and "Hovis" - but all unsliced, there was no sliced bread then.

Sometimes the posher custmers would give me a Christmas box.

After that, I worked in Bunnies, at the corner of Whitechapel, it was a lovely shop, they sold everything there.