S C H U S T E R

There was somebody in the hostel who worked in an army boot repairing place, which reconditioned army boots, and I used to knock the studs onto the army boots and I got paid about three or four pounds a week. And then I taught myself to be a Schuster, shoe repairer, I taught it myself and I went from job to job and I improved myself as I went along.

   And then, afterwards, I moved on to another place in Hampstead. I lived there with other boys, like ‚board and lodgings’, and I paid, I think, three pounds a week for my upkeep.

   I sort of worked myself way up and had my own shop in the 1960s. I had a shoe repair shop for 32 years and I built up a nice business.
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