On leaving school, Walter was briefly apprenticed to a chemist in Birmingham and spent his leisure time attending medical lectures. |
So it happened that beginning at age six I was apprenticed to an old world craftsman. |
At about the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a sign painter in whose shop his work included painting tinned cans. |
Following the death of his brother Geoff, in 1947, he was apprenticed to his father, a renowned blacksmith's farrier. |
At twelve, he was apprenticed to his brother James, who had set up as a printer. |
He left the Blue Coat School at 14, when he was apprenticed to the grocery trade. |