From city clerk to publican; After around two years working as a shipping clerk in the city, mixing with the seafaring individuals of the London docks, Harry takes his career in a different direction and serves around five years apprenticeship in the hospitality industry. Recognising his need to learn his new trade from the bottom up, he started by running several hostelries of low repute across London; in Hackney, Holborn, and Lambeth.
Combining his passion for boxing, with his new found clout as publican, it was not uncommon for him to use one or two of these ale houses for illegal boxing bouts!