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Description: | c1860s.
Portrait of Samuel Stead, proprietor and editor of the "Morley Observer" for 30 years. Born in Churwell in 1831, he was orphaned early and sent to work in a mill before he managed to escape the drudgery and started a stationery and newsagents business in Morley Bottoms. Growing demand for material to be printed locally led him to set up the first printing press in Morley in 1854 producing handbills and tickets etc. Despite no journalistic training and only learning to read and write at Sunday School he went on to set up the Morley Observer; it is believed he may have first published a version of it in 1867 but the paper as it is now has been going continuously since 7th October 1871. Always concerned about the social welfare of the poor, he was a Guardian of the Poor representing Morley District in the Dewsbury Union for 17 years. He died in 1902.
Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Morley Observer Samuel Stead | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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