Mexborough and Swinton Times April 20, 1928

Wath Urban Council Chairman

Mr. George Cook, who took over the chair of the Wath Urban Council On Monday, is now entering his seventh consecutive year of membership of the authority. He is an independent member, and first entered, the Council chamber as successor to Mr. William Maiden,  on the death of that gentleman.

He represents Central Ward, and has twice been returned unopposed. Mr. Cook started to work in the Wath Main Colliery when he was 12. He got all his training there and rose to be under-manager.

With the exception of two and a half years put in at Cadeby after the 1912 explosion there, he has served his whole working life at Wath Main.

Outside the pit: his chief interest is in the work of the Council and the Wath Wesleyan Church, of which he has been a trustee for 15 years. He has served on most of the Council’s committees at one time and another, but perhaps the most important work in which he has had a hand in was the waterworks extensions completed two years ago during his period of office as chairman of the Water Committee.