Denis's first job after finishing his apprenticeship was in London, at E.T.Heron and company Ltd. on Tottenham Street near Goodge Street Tube Station. He belonged to the London Typographical Society, a printing union while in employment there, and carried out some duties as treasurer with them, for the Composing Chapel. He still had the wallet which had 'union subs' and 'chapel subs' written on it in his collection of mementoes from the past. It must have been an exciting time for Denis, working in London in the early 1960s.

He met his beloved wife Jill when he was working at E.T.Heron. Jill's cousin Kay's future husband Tony worked with Denis there. Kay and Tony introduced them to each other by inviting them out with them, on a sort of blind date. Denis told his daughters that he bought a jazz album for her when they first met. Well, Denis and Jill were married in October 1962 in Hampstead, and after spending a couple of years living in Wimbledon with Denis's parents, they moved to West Molesey in 1965 to set up home there. 

Denis left E.T.Heron in March 1966, starting a new job nearer their new home at a printing company in East Molesey called Kadek Press ('Kadek' stood for the original owners and their wives: Ken And Dick Ethel and Kathleen). He was employed at Kadek for 28 years, cycling up and down Walton Road to and from work during that whole period, I am sure some people could set their clocks by him cycling by! 

He worked in various departments when he was at Kadek Press. The print industry changed massively over the time Denis was there. When he started working at Kadek Press, they were compositing using lead type to create the plates the brochures, company reports and printed material for a variety of companies. Metal plates were used for the photos and illustrations. It was while at earlier employment in his late teens that Denis first hurt his back, lifting too many heavy metal plates (probably showing off!) which led to many times over the years when he was incapacitated for a couple of weeks at a time with a slipped disc. Denis was an overseer for a while, and also worked in the proof reading department and in various roles in the print room. 

When compositing with lead type, also known as hot metal, was phased out generally in the print industry in the mid to late 1980s, Denis did not get into computer graphics, but he moved into organising and running the store room there. It was a job that he was supremely suited for. Denis was extremely organised and once he had got the store organised to his system, then no artwork, metal plates or archived print was not able to be quickly located. His system of job bags and recording system was watertight. 

Denis used to tell his daughters the story of when the store room was having a refurbishment and general sort out, he had use of a skip to get rid of old job bags, plates etc. His co-workers joked that he had actually filed the unwanted items in the skip numerically and with job numbers. Denis often said that on his tombstone should read the words: Filed numerically, with no job number!

In 1967 they welcomed the birth of their identical twin daughters Lisa and Lorraine.