stigwood found a job in an institution for "backward teenage boys" in east anglia after his arrival in england. he worked primarily on nightshifts, overseeing the dormitories and "preventing any flow of traffic after lights out", but found it an "unsympathetic and frustrating job" and decided to leave. he worked briefly for hector ross at the new theatre royal in portsmouth, hampshire, before ross left and the theatre closed. around this time he met the young paul jones who would later front manfred mann.