Albert Newman A few years passed before the next freeman was installed in 1927. Appropriately it was Albert Newman, retiring town clerk after 40 years - a great and exceptional honour for a council official.
Jimmy Thomas He was followed by an old Pill boy in 1924, the Rt Hon James Jimmy’ Thomas, MP for Derby for many years, a privy councillor and a Cabinet minister in the Ramsey McDonald and Baldwin governments.
Thomas Parry It was in 1927 when Alderman Thomas Parry was elevated to the elite group for his outstanding services to civic life over 33 years. It was he who inaugurated the Talybont water scheme, the reservoir built in mid-Wales for the town.