Morley Archive
Recently we’ve completed a video showing a virtual tour of the whole of this wonderful building with some funding from Morley Town Council. The Mayor of Morley for 2023-24, Cllr Susan McGarroch, introduces the video. Dr Clive McManus supplies commentary on each of the individual sections. Alan Briggs of MCA has given invaluable assistance. Steve Thompson of Ledgard Computing supplied … Continue reading “A New Video Tour of Morley Town Hall”
Morley Community Archives will lead a guided tour of historic Central Morley on Sunday 25th August. It will start at 10:30am from the Town Hall and we will tell of the buildings and people who lived and worked in them over the years. Supporting this, guides will display old photographs throughout to add authenticity of the descriptions. There is NO … Continue reading “A FREE tour of Historic Central Morley”
We are going to have a Heritage Open Day event at Morley Public Library, Commercial Street, Morley on Saturday September 14th between the hours of 10 am and 4 pm. We will be displaying material from the archives of ourselves, David Atkinson and the recently acquired material of Peter Aldred. We will have two showings at 11 am and 2 … Continue reading “Heritage Open Day”
We’ve now added blogs for Inns and Public Houses into each of the old Morley Borough districts. Recently that for Gildersome has been added and you can see it from the link below The Gildersome Pubs Blog We hope to add more photos and extra information to the blogs as time goes on Related Images:
2. The section on the Morley Mining Industry has now been added to the site. It gives details of the most important mines in the area when Coal Mining was King along with the Families who controlled the businesses. A link has also been made to the fine book by Jim Thorp on the Morley Mining Industry See the full … Continue reading “What’s New in 2023”
Please note that Morley Community Archives will be hosting an Open Day at Morley Town Hall on Saturday 9th September. Members will be creating exhibitions about Morley’s Heritage including Sharon Wilson’s sketches of past Morley times. The hall will be open from 10 am to 4 pm. We will also be giving two guided tours at 10:30am and 2pm around … Continue reading “Heritage Weekend”
We are trying a new venture of adding to the section of Inns and Pubs with extra information in a Blog. As a start we are adding a Blog for the Pubs of Drighlington. It can be viewed at Blog_Drighlington Pubs We are going to add links like the above to the ‘Inns and Public Houses’ section in the … Continue reading “A Blog of Drighlington Pubs”
In our extensive study of men killed during the Great War and commemorated on the local Memorials, we identified details of the great majority of the men named. We were unable to find details on six of them named in Morley and Churwell. Recently, a friend of the group, Chris Harrison, supplied us with details of one of these, named … Continue reading “L/Cpl Joseph William Lister”
Very recently we have published a new booklet about public houses in Victorian Morley. This contains a full transcription of a lecture given in 1898 by William Smith, the local historian, about such places. In addition, we have added 6 pages of text and photographs about various public houses such as The Brunswick, The Nelson and The Angel which were … Continue reading “Victorian Public Houses in Morley”
We have replaced the old section on this with one in which entries for individual years can be read more easily. It can be found in the Factsheet section. Related Images:
