A money box once belonging to J. P. Flint M.P.S. of The Scarthoe Pharmacy c1933.

John Percy Flint M.P.S. was a chemist in Scartho(e) in 1930 and in Waltham in 1926 and 1937. He was staying at the rear of the Brighton Hall Hotel, Sandwich Street, Bloomsbury, London in 1939 and was helping with the war effort. John Percy Flint was born in Canada on 15th December 1899. He was the son of Alfred Tennyson Flint, a commercial traveller born in Louth, Lincolnshire. The family were living at 57 Ainslie Street, Grimsby in 1901. Alfred Tennyson Flint was the Hon. Secretary of the Grimsby Branch of the UK Commercial Travellers’ Association. John Percy Flint was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in WW1. He served from 1914 until 1920. He married for the first time in Southchurch, Essex in 1917. He was living in Ilfracombe, Devon in 1921 and 1922. John Percy Flint married his second wife, Olive May H. H. Graves, in Chippenham, Wiltshire in 1943. John Percy Flint died at Morriscastle, Kilmuckridge, County Wexford on 27th April 1962. John and Olive were living at 115 Wolseley Road, Milehouse, Plymouth, Devon. (The house is still there.) The money box label appears to have a date in 1933 written on it.