Mexborough and Swinton Times March 11, 1938

New Baths Manager
Hull Man Secures Wombwell Post

At a meeting on Tuesday, Wombwell U.D.C. confirmed the appointment of Mr. George R. Johnson, of Hull, as manager of Wombwell Public Baths to succeed Mr. Thomas Kay, who is retiring on superannuation. Mr. Kay has held the appointment since the baths were erected in 1914, and was formerly manager at Wath-on-Dearne baths.

Mr Johnson has been manager of the Madeley Streets Baths of the Hull Corporation since 1935, and prior, to that was manager of St. Paul’s Baths and Public Washhouses, Hull.

He was educated at Hull Technical College, and served apprenticeship with a Hull firm of mechanical engineers. He is a member of the National Association of Baths Superintendents, holds a first-class engineer’s certificate of the Board of Trade, and is a bronze medallist of the Royal Life Saving Society.

At Madeley Street Baths, Hull, he has had wide experience of mechanical and chemical cleansing and filtration. He has organised twelve swimming galas a year and two thousand school children have passed through his hands per week. He is 40, married, and has one child.

Mr. Johnson has interesting family associations. He is the eldest son of Mrs. Johnson, of Youghal House, The Boulevard Hull, and the late Captain R. Johnsoki, who was for many years a master mariner in the Ellermans Wilson Line, and later an Elder Brother of Trinity House. He has two brothers, one an architect with the Brigg U.D.C., and the other a well-known local singer who broadcasts occasionally on the North Regional. It was while serving at sea that he gained his Board of Trade engineer’s certificate.

He has played cricket and football, done a little boxing in which he is keenly interested, and is fond of a game of chess.