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Description: | c 1971
Glasses are raised in honour of Harry Mason B.E.M. (centre) who at this time had completed 50 years service with the Council, employed as Superintendent of Wetherby Cemetery since 1921. He received his medal for 20 years service in the Fire Brigade of which he was Captain for 7 years. Harry was part of the bellringing team of the Parish Church for 60 years and was appointed Captain for ten of those. He continued in his post as Cemetery Superintendent until he retired in 1985. Harry Mason B.E.M. was born in 1897 and died at the age of 91 in 1988. Also in the photograph standing behind Harry on the left, is Councillor
Major Joseph Hudson and to the right of him, Councillor Harry Oates. In the foreground, on the right of Harry Mason, is retired school mistress, Councillor Mabel Hodgson, the first woman to be elected on Wetherby Parish Council. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Harry Mason Councillor | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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