On leaving school at the age of fifteen, Caldecott went to work at the Whitchurch branch of the Whitchurch & Ellesmere Bank and took lodgings at bWirswall/b, a village near the town. In his spare time and when he was ... many of them humorous. In the year that he left school, 1861, he first had a drawing published: it was a sketch of a disastrous fire at the Queen Railway bHotel/b in Chester and it appeared in the Illustrated London News together with his account of the blaze. ...
On leaving school at the age of fifteen, Caldecott went to work at the Whitchurch branch of the Whitchurch & Ellesmere Bank and took lodgings at bWirswall/b, a village near the town. In his spare time and when he was ... many of them humorous. In the year that he left school, 1861, he first had a drawing published: it was a sketch of a disastrous fire at the Queen Railway bHotel/b in Chester and it appeared in the Illustrated London News together with his account of the blaze. ...