South Yorkshire Times May 18, 1957

Mexborough Licensee
Leaving for North Yorkshire

One of Mexborough’s best known licensees, Mr. Arthur Robinson, of the New Mason’s Arms, is shortly to leave the district.

Mr. Robinson has been licensee of the Inn for ten years and the Inn has been in the family since it was re-built in 1934. Before Mr. Robinson’s tenancy his father-in-law, Mr. W. Brammer, was licensee.

Mr. Robinson, a former Wath Grammar student is to live in Hallerstone. a small village in north Yorkshire, and will leave the New Mason’s at the end of July,

Mr. Robinson, a married than with two sons, was founder-chairman of Mexborough Round Table and Chairman of the Round Table No. 7 District in 1954-55. From 1950 to 1953 he was President of Mexborough Licensed Victuallers’ association, in 1950 to 1951 he was president of Mexborough Chamber of Trade, and he has been a member of this organisation for ten years.

When at school he played rugby for the school and later for the Old Wathonians, and is now Vice-president of the Old Wathonians’ Rugby Club. He is also a founder member of the South Yorkshire Wildfowlers’ Association, who meet regularly in the Inn.

Before becoming licensee of the New Masons, Mr. Robinson was a Laboratory Assistant at Manvers Main. He later worked on the coke ovens and tar distillation plants and during the war he was in charge of gas production at Hadfield’s, Swinton (now G.E.C.) Shortly after the war he ran a private hire service in Mexborough.

He was born in Goldthorpe.