Henley Sykes was one of the elder pair of two sets of twins. His father worked at the Sheep Market on North Terrace and as a youngster Henley ran mobs of sheep for him through the City to butchers' yards in Angas Street, Melbourne Street and the Port. In 1912 Henley's father became the head brander at the new Gepps Cross Abattoirs and the family moved into the 'Lovers' Lane' row of employees' cottages on the Gawler [Main North] Road. After leaving the Abattoirs School in 1917, Henley worked for two and a half years at James Smith's in Hindley Street before applying for work at the Abattoirs, preferring stock work to window dressing! Mr Sykes worked primarily in the sheep yards until his retirement in 1968. He married a local girl in 1923 and they had two sons

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