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Description: | c1887-88. A portrait of Alderman Edward Stockwell, the second Mayor of Morley from November 1887 to November 1888. The first six Mayors of Morley were all former members of the Local Board of Health and as such headed the queue to be early Mayors. Edward Stockwell was a manufacturer at Hembrigg Mill, Morley and he lived at Croft House, Church Street, where H. H. Asquith had been born. In 1870-71, Morley got its biggest surge of woollen cloth orders in its history when it supplied uniform and blanket cloth to both combatant armies in the Franco-Prussian War. It is estimated that hundreds of power looms were introduced into the town to cope with the demand. Despite this Edward Stockwell organised a collection among the industrialists to help the French in their predicament. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Mayor Edward Stockwell | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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