 That season he contributed to the club winning the championship of the Football League South and scored seven goals in their run to the semi-final of the first post-war FA Cup.In July 1947 he joined Shrewsbury Town, with whom he won a Midland League championship medal, and a year later joined Southern League Kidderminster Harriers.Two months later, in September 1948, he signed for First Division Aston Villa, where he ended his Football League career.