Mexborough and Swinton Times January 27, 1939

Pictures taken at the opening on Monday of the Old Men’s Retreat in the Clayton Memorial Gardens at Mexborough.

Mr. I. J. Bradley, chief executor of the Clayton Trust, opened the new Mexborough Old Men’s Retreat on Monday. In declaring the Retreat open he was supported by the Chairman of Mex-borough U.D.C. (Coun. J. H. White), Mr. D. R. Clayton (also an executor of the Trust), Councillors E. W. Sykes and G.W. Bramhan, Ald. G. Schofield, the Vicar of Mexborough (the Rev. E. H. P. Rawlins)

“ It is nice to be quiet in this humdrum life of ours, and here the old men of Mexborough will be able to talk and think.” He advised them to let their old age “grow on them.” One of the most beautiful things in the world to-day in his opinion was old age. The Vicar then dedicated a plaque in the foyer of the Retreat.