Some New Councillors

Conisbrough

Mr Archie McKenzie Carlin

Mr Carlin was born at Eastwood, Underwood, and moved to South Kirkby in 1915, thence to Mexborough in 1919, where his father was the proprietor of the Commercial Hotel.

In 1919 he kept goal for the Mexborough Midland League football team that later turned his attention to hockey.A

He was recalled to the Mexborough side and never left it until we went to Barnsley in 1921. He was there one year as an amateur and then turned professional, but his first season as such an eight months in bed as a result of overtraining, I was told that he will never play football again. He did from Mexborough.

He played cricket with Mexborough from 1919 until coming to play for Denaby in 1924. Then he had’s six season with Tickill and returned to Denaby, where he was captain of the Doncaster League team last season.

He came to the employment of the Denaby and Cadeby Colliery Company as assistant bailiff and house agent in 1923 and became bailiff 1926.

He is in his third year as treasurer of the Conisbrough and Denaby branch of the Conservative and Unionist Association.

Is on the committee of the Parish Church Operatic Society and assist social functions and whist drive and BMC several whist drive protocols and. This is his first contest.

Mr Alfred Wellings,

Mr Wellings, who was born at Denaby, is a greengrocer.

His first occupational was in the local collieries, but he had to leave on account of ill health, although he still retained his membership of the union.

He has taken a good share in local support and was on on the verge of joining Gainsborough Trinity when the War broke out and enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery, serving for over four years.

Is overseas service was in France and Belgium, where he was gassed and twice invalided home.

When convalescent in Liverpool he played for the team of Connor Robinson V.C. when the latter received the Freedom of Liverpool for winning the Victoria Cross. The match was on the Aigburth County ground against the Gentlemen of Lancashire.

Mr Wellings is well known in local club life. He has been a vice president of the Denaby branch of the British Legion was for four years on the United Services Fund committee.

From 1920 to 1929 he was treasurer of the Denaby Garden and Horticultural society and at the end of the period was presented with a gold watch suitably inscribed.

He contested the West Ward at a by-election in 1936 and was beaten by 13 votes.