West Cumberland News 14 Feb. 1959 14 Feb. 1959 Workington Man-Mayor of Grantham

14 Feb. 1959 Workington Man-Mayor of Grantham

WORKINGTON MAN WILL BE MAYOR OF  GRANTHAM. _____ A native of Workington who has made good in his  adopted town of Grantham (Lincs), has been chosen as the next mayor. He is Coun.  Ernest SMITH, the 55 year old manager of the footwear department of Grantham  Co-operative Society. Coun. SMITH attended St. Michael’s R. C. School,  Workington, as a small boy, but his family left the town when he was eight, to  live at Frizington where he attended St. Joseph’s School. Afterwards he moved to  Moor Row, and in 1917 joined the footwear department of the Cleator Moor  Co-operative Society. He moved to Grantham in 1935 to take up his present  job. Coun. SMITH, an active worker for his church, was  initiated in the Knights of St. Columba at Frizington in 1925.  He will be Grantham’s first Catholic Mayor. He has been a member of Grantham Council for 10 years  and is chairman of the health Committee and vice-chairman of the Housing  Committee. He is also a member of the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board, the  Lincolnshire River Board, and the Grantham Co-operative  Committee

 

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