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Description: | May 1973. Sunlight and shadow on the Hopkins Gardens part of Scatcherd Park. This part of the park was laid out from 1936 to 1939 and was part of a bequest made by Mr. R. Borrough Hopkins, Morley's first Town Clerk, to its people. Where the yellow flower bed is had been the approximate position of Morley House, the ancestral home of the Scatcherd family, built by Matthew Scatcherd in the 1680s. Although Norrisson Scatcherd, Morley's first historian, had six children none of them produced offspring and after Mary, his wife, died many years later than Norrisson, the house eventually became the property of Mr. R. B. Hopkins who sub-let it to a series of doctors. The house had fairly extensive grounds so when Mr. Hopkins died he had decided to leave the house and grounds as an extension to Scatcherd Park which had been opened in 1911 from a bequest to the town by Oliver Scatcherd. Whether or not it was a clause in the will of Hopkins that had Morley House destroyed or whether it was on the initiative of Morley Corporation is not known but it would certainly have been listed in this day and age.
The red brick building on Queen Street at the right of the photograph is known as Park House. It was built by Oliver Scatcherd who lived there in his early married life but then moved to Morley Hall while his mother was still living at Morley House. Park House, also a listed building, was then acquired by Morley Liberal Club for about 60 years before becoming a caterers and later a funeral directors. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Hopkins Gardens Scatcherd Park | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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