From October 1938, he was, among other things, working as a cabinet maker.
He was a cabinet maker by trade but spent his spare time training.
He was the son of a cabinet maker, but his parents' marriage broke up.
He had been a cabinet maker prior to joining the force.
He was trained as a cabinet maker and worked in London for many years.
He grew up in a family of prominent cabinet makers.
At an early age he was an apprentice to a cabinet maker.
'You could have been a great cabinet maker,' she told him.
But some of the cabinet makers like bigger wood sections.
His father, a cabinet maker working for the Victor company, died when he was seventeen.