 However, due to a change in his father's circumstances, only his sister continued in further education whilst Archie, at the age of 14, was sent to work.After returning from Sydney, Australia where Archie had spent much of World War II, he purchased a house in Acacia Gardens in West Wickham, Kent and worked in a purpose built studio in the grounds.Archie spent much of the early post war years drawing pin-ups but in the 1960s and 1970s turned his artistic talents to greeting cards which could be seen in the greeting card shops across the UK at the time - having adopted the signature 'Gluckli' as the increasingly well-known identifying mark to Dickens' obvious Archie style.