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'Mayor's London Treat for Leigh school Children', Leigh Chronicle, 19 May 1922. Taken from the 'Visit to Leigh, 1922' scrapbook.

'Mayor's London Treat for Leigh school Children', Leigh Chronicle, 19 May 1922. Taken from the 'Visit to Leigh, 1922' scrapbook.

Taken from the 'Visit to London 1922' scrapbook, this Leigh Chronicle article features the names and schools the students are from. 30 children were elected in total, these are their names:

  • Bedford Church: Samuel L Morris and Mary Unsworth
  • Bedford Wesleyan: George Longson and Martha Jackson
  • Butts CE: Harry Green and Rhoda Jones
  • Leigh CE: Norman Bradley and Edith Williams
  • Leigh Wesleyan: Nellie Belshaw and Arthur Boyes
  • St Joseph's: Peter Gibbons and Agnes Smith
  • Sacred Heart: Richard Isherwood and Hilda Ratcliffe
  • Plank Lane RC: Frank Darwell and Maggie Beirne
  • Westleigh Wesleyan: Fred Holmes and Gwendoline Roberts
  • Westleigh St Paul's: James Keeley and Alice Darbyshire
  • Westleigh St Peter's: Annie Seddon and Frank Roberts
  • XII Apostles RC: Annie Roddy and Frank Boone
  • Leigh Council: Charlotte Priestner and Arthur Mangnall
  • Plank Lane UM: Elizabeth Speakman and Thomas Smith
  • Pennington CE: Jabez Clarke and Annie Webster

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