Mr. Charles Radford

Seventy-six Years in One House

To have lived in one house all the seventy-six years of his life, and to have worked for only one firm (Wombwell Main Colliery) was the record of Mr. Charles Radford, of 60, Wombwell Main who died on Saturday and was interred at Wombwell Cemetery on Tuesday. Mr. Radford also had a notable record as on Odd-fellow (Manchester Unity), having been a member of the Loyal Alma Lodge (Wombwell) of that order since he was nineteen years of age.

He had a seizure at the colliery the day before his death and never regained consciousness.

At thirteen Mr. Charles Radford went to work at Wombwell Main Colliery and remained there 52 years, finishing eleven years ago as a result of an accident. For a number of years he was a deputy in the Barnsley bed seam.

In his younger days Mr. Radford played cricket and football for Wombwell Main. Another interest of his was vocal music. In the days of the Rev. A. E. Flaxman he sang in the choir of Wombwell Church and one of his proudest recollections was of the day when he went with a party to sing in York Minster.

He leaves a widow, two daughters and two sons, one of the latter being a police officer at Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Radford would have been 77 last Thursday.