When the Middlegate area was being rebuilt there were two major biulding firms who had the contract for the work. H.A.Holmes and W.Ames, my father was a driver for Holmes and I age 16yrs worked for Ames. I started at the Norfolk plant hire based in the old tramways building at the bottom of Gorleston high street. We were the only building firm on Middlegate who had a tall lifting crane this gave us the speed to finish the flats and masionettes quicker than H.A.Holmes. My next job was building water towers and laying water pipe lines all around Suffolk. We did small jobs of work around Yarmouth. One building we worked on was opposite the general post office on the Quay opposite the Townhall I think it was a bank? My last job for Ames was on flats and houses near the technical school in Gorleston, I then had my call up papers for national service but thats another story.