Mexborough and Swinton Times July 7, 1939

There must be people In Goldthorpe, it is true, who have not heard of Mr. Tom Blacker, equally well as others might not know of Spens, Hadow or Michael Sadler.

It would be foolish to suggest that this modest school teacher would wish his name to be associated with such prominent educationists, yet each in their differing realms might well take pride in serving their time and not only their generation well. He was at the boys’ school as many years as his age would prompt him to forget or the careers of some of his distinguished pupils bid him remember, and now from the quietude of Flixton, on the east coast, where he has been living for the past eight months he will have another memento of his assidious work in South Yorkshire.