Victor Irving worked as various points in his life as miner, a soldier, a spectacle frame maker, assistant funeral director, bus driver and self-employed taxi driver. His experiences at work are clearly reflected in the work of his that appears in the Commonword archive.  He stopped working in 1974 owing to blindness,  but this did not stop him contributing to Commonword’s quarterly magazine, Write On. He would type out his pieces using typewriter and submit them. He was a member of Wythenshawe Writers Group.