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Description: | 1937.
Micklefield House, Rawdon decorated and spotlit for the Coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth. In 1930 Rawdon Urban District Council had purchased Micklefield House from the then owner, John A. Rhodes of Spring Head Mill, Guiseley. The cost of the house and surrounding parkland was ?4,500. There had been a house on this site since 1616, a farm building attributed to the Marshall family, who owned the property for many years. The house was redeveloped and enlarged by succeeding owners including the Godwin family who lived there prior to 1870. John Venimore Godwin was a noted photographer and Mayor of Bradford. In 1872 Thomas Arton, a Bradford woollen merchant bought the property and undertook extensions, building a West wing, giving the house the appearance it has in this photograph. In April 1937 the townships of Guiseley, Rawdon and Yeadon were amalgomated into one U.D.C, to be named Aireborough. Micklefield House became the Headquarters for the Aireborough Council. It is still used as an area council facility, now a one stop shop for Leeds services. In 1974, Aireborough had been taken into the Leeds Metropolitan Area. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Royal decorations | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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