Walter Fellows, 1960 - 1961

Walter Fellows was born in 1908 and spent twenty years in local politics, having been first elected to Staffordshire County Council in 1945. Ten years later he was elected to Bilston Borough Council, representing the New Town Ward. Professionally he was a stocktaker at a steel rolling mill. In 1951 Fellows was Chairman of the Labour Party's Ward Committee, and a member of the local branch of the British Iron and Steel and Kindred Trades Association. He became mayor in 1960. When Bilston was amalgamated with Wolverhampton, he represented Bilston North for Wolverhampton Council. After suffering from a long-term illness, Fellows died in 1987, aged seventy-nine.

Obituary + Image: Express & Star, 26th August 1987