The Soman-Wherry Press, on Heigham Street in Norwich, was part of Robert Maxwell's printing empire. Nosher ended up there as the "year in industry" placement as part of the Business Studies sandwich degree course at Plymouth Polytechnic. Initially, it was meant to have been in some sort of "marketing", but the presence of a Wang PC and an aptitude for creating huge spreadseet models in Microsoft's MultiPlan meant a quick change of tack in to IT- and finance-related work. This included setting up various on-line services, primarily to do credit checking on potential customers.

Nosher's digs were not too far away, on Valentine Street just off the very end of Dereham Road. This was a house share, highlights of which were trips to Arthur Valori's chip shop, the off-licence and watching Friday Night Live.

Soman-Wherry Press - a company formed in 1931 from the merger of A. E. Soman and The Wherry Press - was closed when production moved to BPCC Business Magazines in Colchester around 1992. The buildings were then used by Aspen Windows for a while before being demolished to make way for parking space for a car showroom. One of the printing presses (the Harris M101) was moved to BPCC Anglia Web, where Nosher ended up too, in 1989.