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Description: | C1890s.
The Borough Court moved into these facilities in the new Town Hall on 1st July 1895 from the old premises in the Old Town School. As seen in the image there are no windows in the walls and natural light comes in to the Courtroom from the top. The Courtroom is 48 feet long, 29 feet wide and 25 feet high. The walls are panelled to a height of 10 feet in Oak and the seating tables and benches as upholstered in red Morocco leather. The square, brss railed dock can be seen in the foreground, centre. The door on the right leads to the Magistrate's retiring room. The layout of the Town Hall enabled prisoners to be transferred directly from the cells in the basement to the dock via, an internal staircase.
Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Courtroom Old Town Hall School 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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