This year might also have been when Douglas Falby senior, Jed's dad, exasperated with his son hanging around the queen in shorts, asked his Prospect of Whitby fireman mate Bob Lovell if he couldn't get his son into long trousers by giving him a job at the Lovell and Rupert Curtis Agency on Fleet Street (well Bouverie street off of Fleet St)!! The start of something big... Beyond the change of garb - Jed also had to cut photo-mats, sharpen pencils, clean brushes & every morning change and refill the water pots. Everything was done with water colours in those days and pens with real ink…