My father, Neil Salmon, who has died aged 91, was for many years an English teacher and head of English at Northgate high school in Ipswich, Suffolk, where he introduced generations of pupils to the delights of literature and film.
He spent his entire working life at Northgate, and during that time also kept busy outside school as a key member of the Ipswich Chamber Music Society (for 60 years); chair and secretary of the Ipswich Film Society (40 years); a film reviewer for the Ipswich Arts Association magazine (20 years); and an editor of, and contributor to, the journal of the Ipswich Society (23 years), for which he also instigated the town’s blue plaque scheme in 2001. He did not waste a moment of life.
