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Description: | Undated. A stained glass window at the back of the gallery of the Alexandra Hall of Morley Town Hall that was presented in 1922 as a memorial to James T. Horsfall. He was a local manufacturer at Albion Mills, Church Street, and had been associated with Morley Town Council since the 1890s.
His monogram is at the top of the window and is followed by pictures of two Morley Mills which played a significant part in the development of Morley's textile trade. On the left, with the date 1790, is the Crank Mill, Morley's and the West Riding's first steam-driven mill built in this year. On the right is Gillroyd Mill shown as it was in the 1880s but by 1900 this building was burned down though the business was thriving and it had been rebuilt. The Gillroyd Mill was built in 1834-5 as a joint stock company. Many of Morley's manufacturers made enough money working as part of this to branch out on their own and so in the 1850s and 1860s built their own mills.
The central panel shows a picture of Morley Town Hall with the word Progress underneath it. This was probably put there because in 1921 the Minister of Health had rejected Leeds' application to take over the running of Morley even saying that Morley was a well-governed municipality.
The bottom left picture is of Morley Old Chapel which probably originated as an Elizabethan tithe barn. It was demolished in 1875 and the church of St. Mary's-in-the-Wood was built on exactly the same site from 1875 to 1878. This is shown to the right. The two years 1700 and 1900 have no significance except the two buildings were open then. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Alexandra Hall stained glass window Morley Town Hall | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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