 He took it as a challenge to interest them and keep them entertained – an achievement he still remembers with pride" – from the Proudfoot School of Hypnosis website.Proudfoot married Peggy Jackson in 1950 and the couple had three children (two sons and a daughter).After leaving the RAF in 1946, Proudfoot invested £300 from his RAF gratuity together with funds borrowed from family sources in buying a former foundry building in the village of Seamer near Scarborough and fitting it out as a supermarket .