Retirement
He tried various jobs including running a farm, being a publican, and running a haulage firm. By 1975 he was working as a craftsman blacksmith in the permanent way machine shops at the British Rail Lillie Bridge Depot in London. His last job was as an emergency maintenance man. He died of cancer on 18 July 1983 at a hospital in Tooting. He was married to Patricia Mary Cockell.
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Famous quotes containing the word retirement:
“Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Douglas. Now remains a sweet reversion—
We may boldly spend, upon the hope
Of what is to come in.
A comfort of retirement lives in this.
Hotspur. A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)