The name 'Joseph Hannick' appears on a passenger list of emigrants to the UK on a boat that arrived in Liverpool. (Names were often written down phonetically).  The four options that were given to the newly arrived immigrants were to work as either a coal miner, farm work, quarrying or deportation. With the opportunity to take weekends off my dad became a quarry man at Dove Holes in the Peak District. After a couple of years, and now able to speak good English, Josef stared to work in the quarry office and then after 3 years he worked for the Hostels Association before becoming an assistant to an accountant in Coventry. 

Receiving his Certificate of Nationalisation on 25th October 1954, Josef lived at 28, Park Road, Coventry (until September 1961) with a Police Officer whom he had befriended whilst attending church services. After meeting Barbara (he was going out with her flatmate!) and marrying on 30th December 1961, they moved to Spencer Road in Earlsdon and where big sister was born in 1963. 

My Dad worked as an accountant for British Leyland for just short of 25 years - and my Mum was presented with his gold watch for service to the company. I visited the accountants office with my father once, possibly when I was 11 or 12. I think seeing all those people (dressed the same and all sitting in lines with adding machines) was the day I realised that I was never going to work in an office. Thanks Dad!