1962
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1984.

On return from our honeymoon we returned to our new house in Cheadle Hulme Stockport. 1962. Later that year I bought Honda Motor Scooter our first mechanised transport. Photos of all our Cars { 36 of them} are on our Photo Album Site. 1964. We bought our first Car a Morris Traveller Estate.

1964. December we sold our house in Ch. Hulme, I resigned from the Coop and we bought a Butchery Business with living accommodation in Hollingworth Nr Hyde Cheshire.

1964 - 1973. The Butchery Business gave us a good living, but in 1972 / 3 this was steadily getting worse due to a combination of rising prices { with Decimalisation } and the fact that 3 of the factories in the village closed putting 100’s of of work. We closed the shop in 1973 and concentrated on a Taxi Business I had started in 1972.

1972 / 1973. Started off with 1 car in 1972, had bought 3 more with in 12 months and had 3 owner drivers working at week-ends.

1975. Decided on a complete change and went into the Life Insurance Industry working for a Brokerage in Northampton.

1976. I started my own Insurance Brokerage, we still lived in Hollingworth and the old shop was converted into an Insurance Office / Building Society Agency. I also that year became a member of the Manchester Branch of the LIA the ‘ Life Insurance Association ‘
1976. I also became a Mason joining Manchester Ulster Lodge.

1979. I was elected Chairman of Manchester Branch. also carried on to do a 2nd year, as the Chairman Elect was unable to take over.

1984. Became a member of MDRT the Million Dollar Round Table. An American Insurance Organisation, in 1984 the qualifying figure to become a member was £ 3 Million in sales in a 12 month period - but as we used to say
‘ Not to just one Guy ‘ I stayed a member for 4 years, to when the qualifying figure had reached £ 5 Million, and then decided I was chasing about to much - I had become a person who was living to work - So I went back to being a person who worked to live - and just did enough business as I wanted to do, and no more.

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This was us having a break, we were on the way to San Antonio, Texas to see the Alamo.

The other requires no explanation.

1984. Me in the centre at the Du Pont Plaza Hotel Texas for the 1984 MDRT Convention. Brian Ogden on the R was a guy from Bolton who now lived in Canada, Reg Addison on the L was from Stockport.

This on the right was me when I went out to Dallas Airport to meet Maureen & Karl, they walked past me in reception as they did not recognise me They came out at the end of Convention Week and we had 2 weeks holiday travelling around.
We drove from Dallas Texas all along the coast into Florida, then up the coast and eventually returned to Dallas by an inland route.