South Yorkshire Times, March 11th, 1944

Obituary

Mr. E. Stanger

Clerk to Brampton Parish Council

The death occurred at his home, the Counting Houses, West Melton, last Thursday, of Mr. Ernest Stanger, 67, clerk to Brampton Parish Council.

Mr. Stanger had been clerk to Brampton Parish Council for about 3 years and before that had been a member of the Council for about 9 years.  He represented the Council on Wath Education sub-committee. He was chairman of Brampton Bierlow Poors’ Estate Trustees, and had been secretary of Wath and West Melton Working Men’s Club, Albert Road, for 21 years.  Mr. Stanger was born in West Melton and attended Brampton Ellis School.

He left the district when in his teens and went to Wales, but in his early twenties returned to England and worked in a stone quarry at Huddersfield during which time he was choirmaster at Cowcliffe Netheroyd Hill Wesleyan Chapel and at Trinity Church, Huddersfield.

When he returned to West Melton he married, and became a piano tuner, and was pianist at the old Empire Cinema (now the Empire Hall) for 21 years until it was burned down.  He worked for about 6 years at a Doncaster music shop and at Stanley’s Oil Works.  He remained in West Melton and was well-known as a musician, being an accompanist pianist and player of the organ, harp, and woodwind instruments.  He was a member of Elsecar Midland Club.

He is survived by a widow and a grown-up family of two sons and a daughter.