 However, he moved backed to the Wembley Lions the following season.He then went to the Brighton Tigers for the 1958–59 season before again returning to the Wembley Lions for the 1959–60 season.With the Lions in the late 1950s, Anning was again a member of a high scoring line with Kenny Booth and Les Strongman — known as the "BSA line" - the same post war acronym for the famous British military arms manufacturer "British Small Arms"

Anning spent the 1963–64 and 1964–65 seasons in Sweden playing for IK Viking.