footplate, labourer, cleaner, fireman, driver; trade union; local departmental committee; railway welfare; mayor; school; Warrington; jobs during childhood; father, railwayman in Goods Depot, unemployed from 1926; first job, cotton mill apprentice; fitter with gas stove manufacturer; joining Territorial Army, aged fifteen; call-up to regular Army, 1939; service during Second World War; demobilisation, 1946; first railway job, labourer, Warrington; progression from cleaner, passed cleaner, fireman, passed fireman; joining trade union, ASLEF, active at branch level; joining Labour Party; elected to LDC; appointed ASLEF Branch Secretary and District Council Secretary; founder member of Warrington BRSA; elected member of LMR Sectional Council; experience of line and depot closures; elected local borough councillor and county councillor; service as a JP; election as Mayor; active promotion of Welfare Fund; driver. d.o.b. 1923-01-01, railway work 1946-1988, Warrington;