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Description: | The sitter, Walter Martin Hughes, was a draper and furnisher with his own business, Walter Hughes Ltd, in Highfield Road, Bradley. Mayor of Bilston in 1936-1937. On the 18th March 1937 he and John Tomkys Baker, a councillor and alderman, opened the 2000th council house at 25 Park Road, Millfields. On the same day he was present at the opening ceremony of the new Bilston Library, Museum and Art Gallery, a ceremony performed by the previous mayor TR Wood. In July 1937 Hughes presented the local philanthropist J Luther Greenway with the Freedom of the Borough. Hughes died on January 9th 1943.
Oil painting showing a man in mayoral regalia. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Portrait painting Fine arts Oil painting Oil Paintings People Art collections | Temporal: | 1937
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | COOPER; Alfred Egerton (1883 - 1974) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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