1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Wythenshawe Constituency – Biography of Bridges

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Wythenshawe

CANDIDATE : Bridges

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. W. Bridges was born in 1904, and, after being a coalminer for a period, became a railway shunter. He was, in 1936, elected a member of the Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council, and became an alderman in 1945. In 1948-49 he was president of the Welsh Regional Council of Labour, and is secretary of the South Wales and Monmouthshire district council of the National Union of Railwaymen.

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