A Family run business in Penzance has hit it’s 100th birthday. Hicks hair and Beauty has been running from the same premises through four generations of the family, originally from the Isles of Scilly.
Richard and Philmore Hicks came from St Agnes to the main land in 1904 to set up the East End Toilet Salon, a Tobacconist and Barber shop. Mr Hicks was tragically killed out side his shop in a motorcar accident. Since then the business has passed from father to son, only closing temporarily in 1941 after being bombed during the war.
Ian Hicks the current owner says he will probably be the last in the long line of the Hicks family members to run the shop, he said: “But we have a lot to celebrate over the past 100 years and will be marking the occasion with a staff party,” he said