John Snell (1896-1985)
JOHN Edward Snell was an active worker for both the local Labour Party and local trade unionism.
A native of Great Gonerby, at one time he was a choirmaster at St Sebastian’s Church.
A millwright by trade, he worked for most of his life at Ruston & Hornsby, Grantham, although during the Depression of 1926, he cycled to Derby and Leicester for work.
He was a Labour Party member for 68 years as well as a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) of which he was branch president for 46 years.
In Great Gonerby he was variously school manager, chairman of the parish council, chairman of the playing fields committee and secretary of the allotments association.
He was also chairman of the village’s Memorial Hall. And he still found time to serve on Kesteven County Council specialising in the welfare of mentally and physically handicapped children.
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