| Notes: | The Lord Mayor and Aldermen were meeting to decide on the names of 20 people who were to receive £50 under the will of Miss Ellen Godfrey due to their homes being destroyed during the Blitz.
Pictured sitting (left to right)
Town Clerk, Mr J[ohn] Heys, Lord Mayor, Councillor Samuel Hartley Marshall, Aldermen F[rank] Thraves, C[harles] W[illiam] Beardsley, J[ames] Hawnt, E[rnest] Wilson, W[illiam] J[oseph] Hunter, Mrs A[nn] E[liza] Longden, G. F. Jeffries, W[illiam] E[rnest] Yorke, F[rank] Womersley, W. Bancroft and E. S. Nicholson.
Standing (l. to r.)
Aldermen A[lfred] J[ames] Bailey, J[ohn] A[rthur] Longden, P[ercival] J. M. Turner, A[rthur J[ames] Blanchard and A. Smith.
From Samuel Hartley Marshall’s mayoral photograph album (Sheffield City Archives: X487/1) |