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When school was out, Nat helped his father in the cooperage.

He walked along toward the cooperage with Nat.

“I think it’s the thing for Nat. He’s not much good in the cooperage; he’s better with his head than his hands. He won’t be bringing in any money, but there will be one less mouth to feed. Master Watson always said he was bright. And I talked to Michael Walsh. He said...”

On Friday, a magistrate found 20-year-old Bradley Bailey, of Tarbock Road in Speke, and Connor Bell, 24, of Cooperage Close, Toxteth, guilty of being away from their home address without a reasonable excuse and fined them each £1,760, along with another £276 in court costs and surcharges.

This means his pickle company is also part cooperage.