He was apprenticed as a coffin maker by a farmer whose livestock he cared for.
Funeral homes and coffin makers began their macabre ascendancy as this developing nation's foremost growth industry.
He gets beat up in a restaurant by the bouncer and left for dead with the local coffin maker.
Harry Feigenbaum, a coffin maker, was across the street in 2 Bond, an old row house.
He is also hesitant to reveal to Simmonds his father's career as coffin maker.
The Labour club was originally the local coffin makers and undertakers.
It even had its own sports pitches, coffin maker and a chapel which was completed in 1862.
Other Tamil leaders are like coffin makers, he said: "they want people to suffer."
The hammering of coffin makers could be heard from open shop fronts.
And the local coffin maker, who normally makes 10 a week, says he is suddenly filling orders for 12 a day.