South Yorkshire Times June 16, 1945
Vicar of Conisbrough
Rev GF Braithwaite leaving Wortley
The Rev G.F.Braithwaite, M.A. has accepted the living of Conisbrough, and will probably be instituted next month. Mr Braithwaite will succeed the Rev George Needham, now rector of Wombwell.
Mr Braithwaite as being vicar of Wortley since March 1940, coming from St Stephen’s old in Lancashire, where he has spent four years as vicar.
An old boy of Penistone grammar school, in his youth he lived near Denby Dale. He took his B.A.degree at Durham University and later obtained his M.A..
He spent two years as a teacher in prepatory schools, and then spent a year at Wells theological College. His first curacy was at Huddersfield and after two years there he went for a similar period to Newton Heath, before being appointed secretary of the Waifs and Strays society for the north-west district.
He carried on this work for six years, resigning to take charge of the industrial Paris of St Stephen’s, Oldham