South Yorkshire Times April 13, 1957

Ex Wombwell Airman
Is Now Colliery Under Manager

A Hemingfield man who did not start his mining career until 1949 has just been appointed under manager at Gedling Colliery, Notts.

He is Mr Morris S Beedan (34) of 80, Lee Road, Calvin, Notts, eldest son of Mr and Mrs D K Beedan 12 Fitzwilliam St, Hemingfield.

Mr Beedan attended Hemingfield Ellis School, where he won a County Minor scholarship to Wath London Grammar School. On leaving there he started work in the offices at Cortonwood Colliery.

Mr Breeden had a distinguished record as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

On return to civilian life, Mr Breeden continued his office worker at Cortonwood, but in 1949 got work underground at the same pit. He left his job as a shop fire at Cortonwood two years later and went to Calvin Colliery, Notts, as a deputy, subsequently to work as training officer and overman.

Mr Beeden is a son of the well known nipsy player, Dick Beeden.

He married Miss Gwendolyn Elliott, of High Green, and they have three children aged 10, nine and four.

His grandmother, Mrs Ann Eliza Smith (80), has lived in Fitzwilliam Street, Hemingfield, for 53 years.

News of Mr Beeden’s appointment will be received with pleasure by many friends in Wombwell.