Tommy had two sons Jimmy and Harry who carried on the family coracle-making tradition. Jimmy was employed full time at the Coalbrookdale ironworks and Harry worked at a sawmill. Both were countrymen who gained a living from the river in their spare time and were celebrated for their expertise in times of flood or when someone had to undertake the grim task of fishing bodies from the river. They learnt country skills, including how to make a net, splice rope, trap game and make and handle a coracle. When the family were under threat of eviction from their condemned cottage on Severnside Harry, his brother in law and friends worked through the three months of winter 1938 to build a new larger house on Severnside, with its distinctive arched doorway looking out on Harry’s coracle shed. Harry had a succession of pet foxes, all of which seem to have been called Billy. In 1967 he was being interviewed when a fox walked into the house “Hello Billy, he said, anything up? The fox rubbed his mask against his master’s legs, as if it were a terrier…. he owned a succession of foxes and as each one died he replaced it with another, and each one of them lived in the kennel… Billy used to roam one or two miles down-river… but he usually came back at night.. “Faithful as a dog, aren’t you Billy?”