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Description: | 24th April 1893. This is the official photograph for the first sitting of the newly appointed borough magistrates taken outside the Old Town School on Troy Hill. The magistrates court in the Town Hall which was being built at this time had not been completed, but it was opened in 1895 before the official opening of the Town Hall on 16th October 1895. On the back row are members of the West Riding Constabulary serving in Morley. On the front row (left to right) are: J. W. Hepworth J.P.; Alderman T. Clough J.P.; Joseph Kirkby J.P.; Alderman J. Schofield J.P.; Sam Rhodes J.P. (later to become Mayor four times); Alderman Samuel Stockdale (The Mayor - later to become a J.P. in 1895); D. Hinchcliff J.P.; O. Scatcherd J.P.; J. Dixon J.P.; W. Holton J.P.; R. Borrough Hopkins (Town Clerk); D. Thackray J.P. and F. Thackray (assistant to the Town Clerk). The three new magistrates missing from the photograph are C. Scarth J.P.; E. F. Scholes J.P. and T. S. Smeeth J.P. NB - There is a possibility that the gentleman identified as D. Hincliff J.P. is actually one of the J.P.s' recorded as absent, T. S. Smeeth, so if anyone has information that assists with the correct identification of this man it will be much appreciated. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Old Town School Morley Magistrates Court Troy Hill | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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