I see that they are about to vote to elect a Mayor of the County of Lincolnshire.
Exactly 80 years ago my grandfather Alderman Charles William Hewson was Mayor of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. He thought that being Mayor of the thriving fishing port of Grimsby was a big enough job. Well I don’t actually know that that’s what he thought because I wasn’t born until July.
But I do know that by then Grandfather was enormously busy with 3 farms and a dairy, a butchers business, a ship chandlery in Immingham, a Postmastership and a haulage business with branches in Hull, Immingham, Middlesbrough and Grimsby Docks. He was a JP and was President elect of the National Federation of Meat Traders. After war broke out in 1939 he had become an advisor to the Minister of Foods on the distribution of meat nationally.
One of his secretaries had the job of keeping an album during his year as Mayor by cutting out from the local paper every article about him as Mayor.
I got a mention
