JWL003 Been Fishing - a photo on Flickriver

            My father John William Luxton on the right with Cyril Harvey on the left sat on the steps of 6 Penrose Terrace, Penzance at some date in the late 1950s.

During the 1950s and into the 1960s when I came along my father and mother used to stay at the  B&B operated by Mr and Mrs Harvey at 6 Penrose Terrace. mr Harvey used to work at the Cornishman Newspaper. 

Both he and my father were intersted in angling and when my father was down on holiday they would go on fishing trips which apprently bored my mother who took this photograph using her Kodak 127 Mark 1 Brownie which had been presented to her by colleagues as a wedding present in 1956. 

My father John William Luxton would have been 100 today on December 21, 2024. 

He was born in Fleetwood on December 21, 1924, to Harold William Luxton from Somerset farming family and Emily Lavinia Luxton (nee Roskell) from a Fleetwood family involved in the fishing industry. By then my Grandfather Harold William Luxton was a chargehand at Fleetwood Docks. 

My father moved to Liverpool in 1938 at the age of fourteen when my grandfather decided to buy a shop on Smithdown Road. John William served an electrical engineering apprenticeship at Campbell and Isherwood in Bootle after attending the Toxteth Technical Institute. Fortunately, his apprenticeship in a reserved occupation during World War II meant that he was able to defer his National Service until after the end of World War II. 

Following National Service John William returned to work at Campbell and Isherwood for a short period of time until he was invited by my grandfather to join the family business which by then had expanded to include an adjacent stationery shop and fish and chip shop, though the fish and chip shop was short lived operation, soon sold to someone else.

During his youth, my father became interested in both peddle and motor cycling which resulted in various trips around the UK, Ireland and overseas. However, once of his favourite destinations for trip was always the West Country. Though born in Fleetwood his west country ancestry seemed to call him back and one of his favourite destinations was Penzance, in Cornwall a bit beyond Somerset.  
Whilst working in the shop he became friendly with my mother Elsie White who also had West Country (Cornish) ancestry on her mother’s side and they were married at Mossley Hill Church, Liverpool on July 9th, 1956. I was born just over three years later in October 1959.

My parents love of the West Country well and truly rubbed off on me and for that reason I too have continued the family tradition of ensuring I spend at least two holidays per year in the area.

My father took over the family business on the death of my grandfather in 1978 and ran it until his sudden death on March 26th, 2007, at the age of eighty-three. He should have retired much earlier – but just could not get round to doing it! 

Later in 2007 it fell to me to wind up the business as I had my own career to focus on. 

John WIlliam Luxton December 21, 1924 - March 26, 2007.

Taken in: UK / England / Penzance (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1958

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