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Description: | 1943.
Group photograph taken in the Mayors' Parlour of the Town hall in 1943 to mark the 50th Anniversary of Morley Bench. In the centre of the front row the Mayor is seated, David Dickinson, beside the Mayoress. A Commission of the Peace was granted on 1st February 1893 and the first Magistrates were appointed. The very first sitting of Morley Court was held on 24th April 1893 in the Old Towns' School in Troy Hill. Among the twelve new Magistrates were Charles Scarth, Oliver Scatcherd, Joseph Schofield, Daniel Thackray, John Dixon and Samuel Rhodes who all served as Mayor of the Borough in the years that followed. The photograph on the wall behind the group shows Fred Thackray, long serving Town Clerk of Morley who received the honour of Freedom of the Borough in 1931.
Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Old Town's School Mayor Town Hall Magistrate Court | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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