with Tom Jenkins (violin)
When he was sixteen Tom Jenkins got a job in a cinema at Thirsk.
After playing in various cinemas he joined the quartet at the Royal Baths, Harrogate. Next he became a member of the Hastings Municipal Orchestra, leaving it as sub-leader to join J. H. Squire's Celeste Octet.
He was also principal second violin of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In March, 1938. he was appointed musical director of the Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, in succession to Leslie Jeffries.