NextBackOn returning, I set up my own small business as a jobbing builder and operated for the next twenty years. I next took a job as a general foreman for H Edmunds and Son, Dudley, and was involved in constructing the last sixty council houses for Redditch Council before the Development Corporation took over the house building. They were in parts of Throckmorton Road, Auxerre Avenue, Dowlers Hill Crescent and Wharrington Close.