Mexborough and Swinton Times November 4, 1939

Successful Angler Turned Successful Gardener

Mr. W. N. Jackson, of Milton Roads Mexborough, with some of the gardening trophies he has won this season.

Successful angler turned successful gardener is Mr. W.H. Jackson, of 5, Milton Road, Mexborough, whose photograph we publish herewith.

When in 1938, Mrs. O. J. Philipson, wife of the Managing Director of Manvers Main Collieries, Ltd, presented a trophy for competition in connection with the collieries’ gardens scheme, Mr Jackson held it jointly with Mr. F. S. Durrans; this year he has won it singly, and with it, a small silver flower vase.

At the Hope Club Allotments Society show in August, he carried off a special diploma offered by “Amateur Gardening” for marrows and won a first in the special area competition of the Mex-borough Garden Allotments Association. This was his second success in this competition

Mr. Jackson was a successful angler for many years, literally furnishing his home with prizes, trophies, and stuffed specimens of fish “that did NOT get away.”         There were two particularly large roach taken from the Swinton canal, and an owl (not caught by hook and line) taken near Keadby. He won several gold medals for fishing prowess, among them a “Haigh and Haigh” cup medal (open to all England) in 1906, a Castleford and District Amalgamated Society of Anglers medal (1921), and a Subscription Cup medal in 1923.

He has fished with both Mexborough and Swinton clubs. He is employed at Barnburgh Main Colliery.

Incidentally (as an encouragement to others) he took the allotment in Adwick Road (with which he has been so successful) when it was merely rough grassland! A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson is district nurse at Bentley; a son is teaching in Blackpool.