We would travel to Manchester to buy rolls of fur, eyes and squeakers.
It was a powerful lesson to discover that you could make something
from raw materials that people were prepared to buy and to make a profit.
From memory, the puppets cost about £2.00 in raw materials,
and took two hours to make.
We sold them for £10 each, turning a good profit.
We sold them on the streets, so paid no rent.
The best day we ever had was at the Bull Ring in Birmingham...

We took £800 in one day on the last Saturday before Christmas in 1981.
(Average take home pay was about £70 per week.

This was outstanding, and the World has changed since then...