[Leonard Ellisdon got his ‘first job in Fleet Street’ as an office boy, aged 14, where he briefly worked until the business went bankrupt. His father, Fred Ellisdon, was a compositor on Fleet Street]

And so I went home, feeling very unhappy and that my business career was finished as far as the city was concerned. However, my father gave me 4d and I bought a mouth organ and for the remainder of the afternoon, drove my family up the wall with my rendering of “Hearts of Oak” [sic], “Rule Britannia” and “God Save the Queen”.