Decades of duty recognised with a BEM in Town Hall ceremony for Oxspring’s John Wade
Decades of public service from a bastion of Barnsley’s rural community have been recognised with a BEM awarded to former Councillor John Wade in a ceremony at Barnsley Town Hall.
Mr Wade, 93, has a long history of public service which included membership of the old Penistone Rural District Council and Barnsley Council which followed after a local authority re-organisation in 1974.
But even after his council service concluded, Mr Wade, of Sheffield Road, Oxspring, remained an active figure in the community and was still serving as a school governor at the village school, which he attended as a child, until his 90s – taking his time in that role to half a century.