South Yorkshire Times, January 3, 1942

Cortonwood Manager

West Yorkshire Pit Official Appointed

Mr. Charles A. Charlton (43), formerly manager for the Middleton Estate and Collieries Co., Ltd., Leeds, a member of the Midland Institute of Mining Engineers, has been appointed manager of Cortonwood Collieries, Wombwell, following Mr. Harry Fawcett, who has gone into retirement after holding the position for 21 years.

A member of a family which came from the Durham coalfield,    Mr. Charlton was born to a mining tradition. He served apprenticeship at Messrs. Henry Briggs and Sons Collieries in West Yorkshire, wher his father was at one time chief engineer.

Before going to the Middleton Collieries about eighteen months ago, he was manager at several pits, including Prince of Wales Colliery, near Pontefract, and East Ardsley, near Wakefield, and—at the same time — Messrs. Crawshaw and Warburton’s Shawcross Colliery.

Two of his brothers hold executive positions in the coal industry. Mr. William Charlton is chief engineer to the Blackwell Collieries, Derbyshire, and Mr. George Charlton is manager at Snydale Colliery, Pontefract.

Mr. and Mrs. Charlton have one child, a daughter aged 12, who was evacuated to Canada in July, 1940, with St. Hilda’s School, Sneaton Castle, Whitby. They have taken up residence at 23, Manor Road Brampton.

The Managing Director at Cortonwood is Mr. T. S. Charlton, but there is no family relationship.