Mexborough and Swinton Times March 31, 1939

Retirement

Forty-seven years and six months with one firm without a break is the record of Mr Walter Kettlewell, of 53, Old Pit Yard, Cemetery Road, Wath

Mr. Kettlewell has been employed at the Wath Main Colliery for that period, for the last 38 years as yard foreman, which post he held up to the day of his retirement last week.

Mr. Kettlewell was born at Armthorpe, near Doncaster, but removed to Scotton at an early age and worked his way to the Wath Main Colliery via Laughton Wood, Haxey, Hatfield Woodhouse, Owston Ferry and Scunthorpe Ironworks.

Mr. and Mrs. Kettlewell have one son and one daughter living. Their eldest son, George was wounded in the Great War and died in Boulogne, Where he was interred in 1918

Mr. and Mrs. Kettlewell went to see his grave in 1919