Henry Moore Institute: Events Announcement

Contents

p.3 Appendix 1-Information taken from UKNIWM Webpage (www.ukniwm.org.uk)

p.6 Appendix 2-Notes taken from Press Cuttings book, Leeds Central Library

p.19 Appendix 3, Part I-Notes taken from documents held by West Yorkshire Archives

p.21 Appendix 3, Part II-Notes taken from documents held by West Yorkshire Archives

p.24 Appendix 3, Part III-Notes taken from documents held by West Yorkshire Archives

p.25 Appendix 3, Part IIII-Notes taken from documents held by West Yorkshire Archives

p.28 Appendix 4-Timeline of the major events in the life of the War Memorial

p.30 Appendix 5-Letter issued by the Mayor’s office dated January 1920 (West Yorkshire Archives)

p.31 Appendix 6-Letter issued by the Town Clerk dated 1 June 1920 (West Yorkshire Archives)

p.32 Appendix 7-Reginald Blomfield’s correspondence (West Yorkshire Archives)

p.36 Appendix 8-Invitation to viewing of proposed design dated 25 June 1920 (West Yorkshire Archives)

p.37 Appendix 9-Col Harding letter to Yorkshire Post dated 28 January 1919 (West Yorkshire Archives)

p.38 Appendix 10-Article from Yorkshire Post dated 27 January 1921

p.39 Appendix 11-Letter issued by Lord Mayor’s office dated 2 February 1921 (West Yorkshire Archives)

p.40 Appendix 12-HC Fehr Letter dated 2 March 1921 (West Yorkshire Archives) p.41 Appendix 13-War Memorial Correspondence (West Yorkshire Archives) p.44 Appendix 14-Carlo Magnoni Naturalisation Article (The London Gazette, 18 May 1954) p.45 Appendix 15-Correspondence from Rev Heyward (West Yorkshire Archives) p.47 Appendix 16-Announcement for the Unveiling Ceremony (West Yorkshire Archives) p.48 Appendix 17-Original ‘Order of Procession’ document (West Yorkshire Archives) p.49 Appendix 18-Original Correspondence from the West Yorkshire Archives p.52 Appendix 19-Original ‘Closing of the Streets’ document (West Yorkshire Archives) p.53 Appendix 20-Original Unveiling Ceremony documents (West Yorkshire Archives)

p.63 Appendix 21-Original Unveiling Ceremony photograph (West Yorkshire Archives)

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p.64 Appendix 22-The completed Garden of Rest on the Headrow (1937) p.65 Appendix 23-Programme for the opening of the Garden of Rest (28 October 1937) p.66 Appendix 24-The War Memorial under repair (1940) p.67 Appendix 25-Letter to Ian Judd from Robert Hopper, Director of HMST (Judd’s personal archives) p.68 Appendix 26-Letter to Ian Judd from Robert Hopper, Director of HMST (Judd’s personal archives) p.69 Appendix 27-Interview with Ian Judd p.74 Appendix 28-Photograph of Judd’s original maquette p.75 Appendix 29-Original sketch of Angel and original photographs (Judd’s personal archives) p.78 Appendix 30-List of Public Subscriptions (extracted from Press Cuttings) p.85 Appendix 31-Major Contributing Parties p.87 Bibliography, resources and documents relating to the monument.

Appendix1-Information taken from UKNIWM Webpage (www.ukniwm.org.uk)

LEEDS UKNIWM REF: 2111 Address VICTORIA GARDENS OUTSIDE MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS HEADROW LEEDS WEST YORKSHIRE ENGLAND LS1

Type: SCULPTURED/CAST GROUP OS Map Ref: SE 298 338 Previous Locations Address Date Moved Reason for Move CITY SQUARE 1937 FOR A NEW TRAFFIC SCHEME LEEDS WEST YORKSHIRE ENGLAND Inscription 3 O'CLOCK FACE: OUR GLORIOUS DEAD 9 O'CLOCK FACE: PRO PATRIA 6 O'CLOCK FACE: INVICTIS PAX 1914-1918 1939-1945 12 O'CLOCK FACE: TO HONOUR THE FALLEN Components Component Material(s) Height Width Depth Condition PEDESTAL STONE - PORTLAND 7000MM GOOD FIGURES BRONZE 1085MM GOOD Physical Description FOUR STEPPED BASE SURMOUNTED BY PLINTH AND OBELISK. WHOLE IS SURMOUNTED BY A BRONZE WINGED FIGURE OF PEACE. ON THE 3 AND 9 O'CLOCK FACES OF THE SIDE OF THE OBELISK IS A BRONZE FIGURE OF ST GEORGE STANDING ON THE SLAIN DRAGON AND A BRONZE FIGURE OF PEACE

FOUR OWLS SYMBOLISING LEEDS ON THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE BASE OF THE OBELISK. WREATH ON THE 6 O'CLOCK FACE OF THE BASE, COLURS HANG ON THE 6 AND 12 O'CLOCK FACES OF THE OBELISK

Wars Commemorated & People Remembered War FIRST WORLD WAR Total names on memorial: 0 Served & Returned 0 Died 0 Is this an exact count? NOT KNOWN How are the names ordered? NOT KNOWN What information is listed on the memorial? NONE Is a list of names on the memorial held by the UKNIWM? NO

War SECOND WORLD WAR Total names on memorial: 0 Served & Returned 0 Died 0 Is this an exact count? NOT KNOWN How are the names ordered? NOT KNOWN What information is listed on the memorial? NONE Is a list of names on the memorial held by the UKNIWM? NO

Maintenance Are the letters difficult to read? NO Who is responsible for the memorial? LEEDS CITY COUNCIL Maintenance History: 1940: WINGED VICTORY WAS TAKEN DOWN FOR REPAIR 1946: FIGURE WAS PUT BACK 1965: VICTORY FIGURE TAKEN DOWN WHEN IT MOVED IN A GALE. IT WAS RE-ERECTED IN COTTINGLY CREMATORIUM THE HEAD IS NOW IN THE MUSEUM 1991: ANGEL OF PEACE ERECTED TO REPLACE FIGURE Ceremonies Date: 14 OCTOBER 1922

Role Performed By UNVEILING VISCOUNT LASCELLES DEDICATION BISHOP OF RIPON

Date: 10TH NOVEMBER 1991

Role Performed By RE-DEDICATED UNKNOWN

Sponsorships Sponsorship Type: PUBLIC Did this include a trust or scholarship? NO Did this include a roll of honour? NOT APPLICABLE Cost of Site: NOT KNOWN Cost of Memorial: £6000 Comments on Costs: Craftsmen Name Occupation SIR REGINALD BLOMFIELD ARCHITECT H C FEHR SCULPTOR References Co-ordinator's Comments: ORIGINAL FIGURE APPARENTLY CAME FROM MILAN Comments: NEWS: "LEEDS TELEGRAPH AND ARGUS" 20 FEB 1941 NEWS: "YORKSHIRE POST" 27 JAN1921 Photographs: 9 Other Documents: UV LEAFLET DPB EPHEMERA Form / Letter: F Negatives: NO Drawings / Plans: NO Minutes: NO Publications: 1

Appendix 2-Notes taken from Press Cuttings book, Leeds Central Library

Press Cuttings

Leeds War Memorial Press Cuttings Central Library Ref LQ 940.465 L517 / LQ 940.46 LEE ------

Yorkshire Observer (YO) 11.12.19 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial’ The Leeds War Memorial Executive Committee yesterday decided upon the Cookridge Street site and against the proposed acquisition of property in front of the Town Hall. Alderman Frank Fountain (Deputy Lord Mayor) presided over the meeting in the absence of the Lord Mayor (Mr T B Duncan). An early appeal will be made for funds.

Yorkshire Post (YP) 13.1.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial The Cookridge Street Scheme An Appeal to the Public’ The Leeds War Memorial Scheme was advanced another stage at a meeting of the General Committe under the chairmanship of the Lord Mayor (Mr T B Duncan) yesterday, when resolutions were passed agreeing to recommendations of the Executive with regard to the Cookridge Street site and a public appeal for funds was decided on [...] The Alderman [C H Wilson] mentioned that if the scheme went through Alderman Penrose Green and Mr Joseph Clark would each subscribe £1,000 to the fund and that other promises had been received. As an addendum to the resolution it was also decided that the questions of the actual site of the memorial and the appointment of the architect should be referred to the Executive Committee, with full power to agree with that Committee on those points and to proceed with the erection of the memorial. [...] On the proposition of the Lord Mayor, seconded by Mr A G Lupton, it was resolved to issue an appeal to Leeds citizens for the necessary funds, pointing out that “it is the intention of the Committee to obtain the advice of one of the most eminent architects in the country with regard to the form of the structure, and the public are assured that the memorial will be of a character befitting the memory of our dead heroes and worthy of the city”. [...] At the same time there was unanimity of feeling in favour of a suggestion that donations should be obtained in small sums by collections from workpeople and other who might not be able to afford large subscriptions.

Yorkshire Evening News (YEN) 13.1.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial Ambitious Scheme in which Everyone Should Help Appeal to Workers’

YEN 31.1.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial Lord Mayor Duncan Appeals for Funds’ An appeal for further funds for the Leeds War Memorial has been issued by the Lord Mayor (Mr T B Duncan) [...]

YP 31.1.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial The Lord Mayor’s Appeal’ [...] The first list of contributions amounts to a total of £4,236 19s. 1d. It includes £1,000 each from Alderman W Penrose-Green, Councillor Joseph Clark and Messrs. William Lupton and Co; £250 from Mr and Mrs Frank Gott; and also the following:- Casualty Clearing Station Canteen Fund-2-3rd W R Regiment, £20; Armistice Thanksgiving Service (balance to collection), £83 1s. 8d.; Marshall Street Congregational Church Collection, £15 15s.; Officers, C.O.’s and Men of L Corps Signal Co. R.E., £11 18s. 1d.; The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress (Mr and Mrs T B Duncan), £50; Sir Michael and Lady Sadler, £100; the Rev A G Haste, £2 2s.; Councillor F Bentley, £26 5s.; Miss L C Lowe £5; Joseph Henry (Limited), £50; Lt Col and Mrs Kitson Clark, £100; the Hon Edward Wood MP, £100; Miss Dorothy Hepton, £10; Alderman C H Wilson £21; A J Sanders Esq, £10 10s.; the Hon Roland D Kitson, £10; Alderman H Brown, £21; Alderman G Ratcliffe, £21; Alderman Arthur Willey, £100; Mr F Dymond, £50; Clokes Extension (Ltd), £26 5s.; Councillor Philip Marsden, £105.

YP 4.2.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial’ [...] Yesterday’s receipts included: Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Co. (“The Yorkshire Post” and allied papers), £250; Mr W Hoffman Wood and Miss Wood, £105; Mr J R Mozley, and Messrs. Fearnside Bros., £10 10s.; Mr George A Hart, £10; Mr A Brooke, £5 5s.; Miss E Garbutt, and Leeds Butchers’ Sick Society (per J Barker, sec.), £2 2s. each; Mr F C Long and Mr W B Goodrick, £1 1s. each; Mr Niels Larsen, and ‘A Mother who has lost in the War”, £1 each; total to date £4,676 0s. 1d.

YP 11.2.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial’ The Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions:- Leeds Industrial Co-Operative Society (Limited), £250; A M McQuat, £150; Councillor Morrison and C E Fulford (Limited), £100 each; William Greenwood, £50; Mr and Mrs B Day, £30; H M Hepworth and S Scott Stanley, £26 5s. each; North and Sons, £21; Murphy and Son (Limited), Councillor and Mrs Leigh, and 5th Vol Batt West Yorkshire Regiment (per Major Rush), £20 each; Councillor J Blackburn, £15; the firm of George Needham, Benjamin Greaves and J H Bean and Co (Limited), £10 10s. each; the Hon Hilda Kitson, H Herbert Kitson, Col and Mrs A E Kirk, F W Jones, Simpson, Fawcett, and Co., and Mrs Alice K Taylor, £10 each; Mr and Mrs James Wilson, John Craig, Time Recorders (Leeds) (Limited), J C Spink, Levy Brothers, Harry Taylor and Wortley Working Men’s Institute (per J Firth, hon. secretary) £5 5s. each; J Hampshire, Mrs R H Braithwaite, J H Strike, Thomas Middleton, and A H Hurtley £5 each; J F Weatherall, £3 3s.; J W Green and Sons, J E

Abbott, Thomas Constantine, Miss Alice Silcox, Mrs J W Rowley, Arthur Rushworth, G E Trenam, and Mr M Goldstone, £2 2s. each; F W Chester, J Jackson Lilley, Singer and Levy, H W Symons, George S Gordon, Miss C Coignou, and Isidore Goldman, £1 1s. each; Ferdinand Fowkes, William Davis, Fred Ashton, Edward Moore, Frank Sadler, Miss Josephy, Miss C Josephy, and Mrs T Atkinson, £1 each; Misses K and H Josephy, £1; J L Barnett, 10s. 6d.; W E Hebden, Mrs H E Taylor and Councillor Foster, 10s. each; Mr and Mrs J Thrippleton, 7s. 6d.; W Nelson, E J Harrison and Mrs P Metcalfe, 2s. 6d. each-making a total of £1,020 16s. 6d., which, with the amount previously acknowledged, brings up the total to date to £5,696 16s. 7d.

YEN 14.2.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial Poor Response to the Lord Mayor’s Appeal Newly Rich Lag’ The appeal for funds for the erection of an appropriate war memorial in Leeds has not met with the response which it deserves [...] To-day the total subscriptions amount to £5,930-a disappointing figure when one considers the size and wealth of the city. [...]

YP 18.2.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial’ The Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge with thanks the following contributions:- Edmondson’s Warehouse (Ltd.), £100; Alderman and Mrs Charles Lupton, £100; Thos. Coombs and Son, £25; S and L Ash Brothers (Ltd.), £21; Robert Armitage MP, £20; staff and employees of Edmondson’s Warehouse (Ltd.), £13 1s. 2d.; Hy. Boyfield Ltd., and Peckover, Scriven and Co., £10 10s. each; Robert L Whitfield, J P Hubbersty and Eveleign Bishop, £10 each; Trust Houses Ltd. (Hotel Victory), and Harry Ratcliffe, £5 5s. each; E Burrows and Win Haigh, £5 each; Edward Burn and Boult Bros., £3 3s. each; T H Bennett and Style and Mantle, £2 2s. each; H W Kilvington, Miss Olive Middleton, Geo. W Walker, Rabbi H Hurwitz, and Angus Birkbeck, £1 1s. each; J B McNiff and R W Hudson, £1 each; Mrs S A Coultate and Geo. H Mynett, 10s. each; J Robinson and Geo. Jepson, 5s. each; Miss Chapelow, 2s. 6d.; total £369 18s. 8d. Amount previously acknowledged, £5,696 17s. 7d.; total to date, £6,066 16s. 3d.

YP 24.2.20 Article ‘A War Memorial Decision’ [...] The Cookridge Street proposal is to be proceeded with [...] and the advice of Sir Reginald Blomfield, the eminent London architect, is to be obtained, in order that the best possible design may be elaborated, with an appropriate setting [...] members of the Committee, we understand so not contemplate that any sum less than £100,000 will be adequate.

YP 3.3.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial Fund’ The Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions:- Walter Scott (Limited) (Leeds Steel Works) and F J Kitson, £100 each; Mr and Mrs F C Kitson, £21; Mrs Margaret White, £10 10s.; James Sykes, George Glover and Co. (Limited), and the firm and

employees of Wear and Burrows (Limited), £5 5s. each; Tempest, Toothill and Tempest, and Mrs Julia Wood, £3 3s. each; Mrs Emily Morritt and Mr and Mrs Robinson, £2 10s. each; D Smith and A Davy and Sons (Limited), £1 1s. each; Councillor Wood, Miss Bessie Cawood and Miss M A S Smeeton, 10s. each; Frederick Burt, 5s.; and Mrs S Turner, 2s. 6d.; total £262 10s. 6d., making a total to date, with the amount previously acknowledged, of £6,483 5s. 3d.

YP 10.3.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial Fund’ The Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions:- “Wellwisher”, £50; Mrs C Muir and Miss Jessie Burgess, £10 each; Miss S Hayton and Mr and Mrs T G Wintle, £2 2s. each; A Yewdall, £1 1s.; Mrs E Mitchell and H Smith, 2s. 6d. each; making a total of £75 10s., and a total to date of £6,558 15s. 3d.

YEN 10.3.20 Article ‘Poor Response for Leeds War Memorial Citizens Losing Sight of their Debt to the Fallen “Frozen Scheme”’

YP 17.3.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial’ The Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions:- W J Cousins and Fletcher £10 10s., Councillor Hawkesworth £5, employees of Arthur and Co., Ltd. £4 17s. 1d., H Parrish £1-total £21 7s. 1d. Amount previously acknowledged £6,558 15s. 3d.-total to date £6,580 2s. 4d.

YP 31.3.20 Article ‘Contributions to the Leeds War Memorial’ The Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions:- Leech and Sinkinson (Limited), £52 10s.; W Williams, £5; the Oak Bowling Club, £3 3s.; S Sandstone, £1; E. M. H., £1; R W Hornsey, 2s. 6d.; making a total of £62 15s. 6d.; the amount previously acknowledged was £6,580 2s. 4d., thus making the total to date £6,642 17s. 10d.

YP 14.4.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial Sir R. Blomfield’s Suggestions. Approximate Cost of £50,000’

YEN 14.4.20 ‘Sir R. Blomfield’s Plans for War Memorial. Leeds Citizen’s Views. Alderman Wilson says Cost is the Problem.’

YP 22.5.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial’ The Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions:- “Anonymous”, £100; Richardson Bros. and Co., £10 10s.; Mrs and Misses Rowley, £2; amount previously acknowledged, £6,680 4s. 10d.; total to date, £6,792 14s. 10d.

YP 9.6.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial’ The Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following contributions:- -Amount previously acknowledged, £6,792 14s. 10d.: Leeds Municipal Officers’ Guild (Official Welcome Fund), £7 14s. 8d.; employees of Arthur and Co., Ltd. (Belle Vue Factory), £3 0s. 6d.; total, £6,803 10s.

YEN 11.6.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial Better Financial Support Expected Now Design is Known’

Leeds Mercury (LM) 11.6.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial Committee’s Approval of New £55,000 Scheme’ A meeting of the Leeds War Memorial Committee, yesterday, considered and approved the report prepared by Sir Reginald Blomfield, outlining the form which the memorial is to take. [...] According to the report, the memorial will occupy a vacant space next to Cookridge street, and will have a total length of 237 feet, and a depth of 78 feet. The central memorial will consist of a cenotaph, with projections in the centre, having on their face bronze lion masks as jets for water. The symbolism of the various features of the memorial is as follows:- (1) The platform, the basins, the fountains, and the trees are for the living. (2) The inscriptions for the gratitude of the fellow-citizens of the dead. (3) The frieze of mourners for their sorrow. (4) The sarcophagus behind columns to commemorate their death. (5) The wreath for victory. (6) The group of a man of heroic size, with two children, one playing and the other looking up, to suggest the future. According to the report, the estimated total cost is £55,000. [...]

YEN 11.6.20 Article with Illustration (See photocopy) ‘Design for the Leeds War Memorial’

LM 2.7.20 Article ‘War Memorial for Leeds. Lord Mayor and Public Apathy.’

YP 2.7.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial. Sir R. Blomfield Replies to Criticisms. Difficulties of the Project.’

Yorkshire Evening Post (YEP) 5.7.20 Article ‘Should the Black Prince be Evicted? City Square Suggested for War Memorial.’ “Why must the Black Prince stay where he is, and for ever? We have better men to remember, so might he not make way for them?” [...] The view of Colonel Harding, who gave theBlack Prince statue to Leeds, is expressed succinctly in the following message to “The Yorkshire Evening Post”:- I should strongly object to the removal, and am surprised it should be suggested. [...]

YP 28.7.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial’ The Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions:- Staff and students, Yorkshire Training College of Housecraft, £14; Miss M Oldroyd, £2; amount previously acknowledged, £6,803 10s.; total to date £6,819 10s.

YEN 6.8.20 Article ‘£16 in Eight Weeks. Leeds War Memorial Scheme a Fiasco? Nobody Seems to Care.’

YEN 17.9.20 Article ‘Colonel Harding and Leeds War Memorial. Informal Meeting with Civic Authorities. Possible New Plans.’ [...] the meeting was purely informal, and was called at the wish of Colonel Harding, who apparently has the interests of the war memorial very much at heart. Indeed, his visit to the members of the committee was for the express purpose of doing his utmost to put fresh life into what up to now would appear to have been almost a lost cause.

YEN 17.11.20 Article ‘Col. Harding and Leeds War Memorial. Definite Proposal to Put Before the Committee. Another Visit.’ [...]Colonel Harding will again visit Leeds on Thursday, November 25th, for the purpose of meeting with the Executive Committee of the War Memorial Committee [...] Invitations to the meeting have been circulated by the Town Clerk, and on these the wish is expressed that there will be a good attendance to hear Colonel Harding’s proposal.

YEN 25.11.20 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial. Colonel T W Harding’s Proposals Submitted to Committee. Details Not Disclosed.’ [...] The meeting, which was presided over by the Lord Mayor (Mr A Braithwaite) was of a private nature, but half-way through the proceedings the Press were informed that the proposals of Colonel Harding, along with others submitted by members of the committee, had been heard and referred to a sub-committee for further consideration.

YP 26.11.20 Article with Illustrated Plan ‘Leeds War Memorial Scheme. A Critical Position. Suggested City Square Site.’

YEN 26.11.20 Article ‘Cenotaph for Leeds City Square. Col. Harding’s Suggestion to be Developed. Interesting Scheme.’

Unknown Publication and Date YP 27.1.21 Article with Illustration -Includes dimensions and details of materials and design. ‘Leeds War Memorial New Scheme. A Cenotaph in City Square.’ [...] Colonel T W Harding, an ex-Lord Mayor of the city, who presented the fine equestrian figure of the Black Prince to the Corporation, was invited to attend the meeting of the Committee in November, and he then suggested the City Square site, which he considered to be excellently adapted for a memorial of moderate dimensions. [...] For this site Colonel Harding brought several suggestions before the Committee, and undertook to have prepared a sketch-model of what he considered suitable for the site, worthy of Leeds and within practicable cost. Under his direction such a model has been made by Mr H C Fehr, of London, the sculptor of the statue of James Watt now in City Square, and that of Dr Cartwright at Bradford.

[...] Mr Fehr’s model, which is a little over five feet high, was exhibited yesterday in the Lord Mayor’s Rooms, and was viewed by the Committee. It is on a scale of 2 inches to the foot, or one- sixth of actual size. [...] Three steps of Yorkshire stone would lead up to an octagonal base or pedestal 8 feet across and 4½ feet deep. Upon this is a square block or plinth at the corners of which are sculptured owls with outspread wings, the owls being the supporters of the City Arms. From this plinth arises a truncated pyramid, on the top of which there is a bronze-winged figure of Victory, holding out in one hand a wreath and in the other an uplifted sword. This figure, with its bronze base, is 11 feet high to the top of the wings. The height of the pedestal to the base of the figure is about 20 feet, so that the total height of the monument is 31 feet. In front of two sides of the pyramid are bronze ideal figures of Peace and War. That of Peace is a beautiful draped female figure, holding aloft a palm branch, while on the opposite side a figure of St George slaying the dragon typifies War, and the everlasting struggle of good against evil. This figure is clothed in decorative armour. The pedestal and pyramid would be of white marble, and on the two sides where there are no bronze figures, sculptured flags in marble are introduced. On the front of the pedestal is inscribed: “To our Glorious Dead”, and on the back “Honour to the Fallen”, under the figure of St George “Pro Patria”, and under that of Peace “Invictis Pax”. The cost of the monument is estimated at £5,000, a sum which it is thought, should be easily raised in Leeds. [...] To prevent the steps of the monument being used by loafers, it is suggested also that a chain supported on pillars might be erected around the base. These are, however, matters of detail which will be thrashed out later. There was a representative attendance at yesterday’s meeting of the Council which approved the scheme. It included the ex-Lord Mayor (Mr T B Duncan), Colonel Harding, Mr Arthur G Lupton, Alderman Charles Lupton, Lieut.-Colonel E Kitson-Clark, Alderman G Radcliffe, and the Town Clerk (Sir Robert Fox).

YP 9.2.21 Article with list of contributors ‘Leeds War Memorial. Funds Urgently Required.’ [...] The following are the subscriptions to date:- Amount previously acknowledged. £6,819 10 0 Less reductions to date in consequence of adoption of less costly scheme and expenses incurred...... 3,161 1 11 £3,658 8 1 New subscriptions- The Lord Mayor (Albert Braithwaite) 50 0 0 Colonel Harding 200 0 0 Harding, Rhodes, and Co (Ltd.) 100 0 0 H D Leather 50 0 0 A W Bain 50 0 0 W Firth 50 0 0 Henry Brown 26 5 0 Joseph Watson 21 0 0 Reynolds and Branson (Ltd.) 12 10 0 Frank Woodhead 10 10 0 Timothy Newby 10 10 0 J F Syme 10 0 0 T G Porter 10 0 0 Mrs R L Wilson 10 0 0

G G S Grundy 5 0 0 Mrs R H Braithwaite 5 0 0 H J Robson 3 3 0 Miss G M Toogood 2 2 0 Miss Barber 1 1 0 Rev J Wylde 1 0 0 Percy R Taylor 10 0 Anonymous 2 6 £4,287 1 7

YP 15.2.21 Article with list of contributors ‘Leeds War Memorial’ [...] Amount previously acknowledged. £4,287 1 7 Wm. H Kitson 50 0 0 Messrs. Wilkinson and Warburton 26 5 0 Mrs R Hudson 25 0 0 Mr and Mrs R K Calvert 21 0 0 J C Atkinson 10 10 0 R Haste Carr 5 5 0 C E Warren 5 5 0 Dr J Holmes 5 5 0 Mrs J Holmes 5 5 0 D H Gordon Smith 5 5 0 D R Glover 5 5 0 J W Foxcroft 5 5 0 Miss J B Kitson 1 1 0 Miss Hannah Cass 1 1 0

Total to date £4,458 3 7

YEN 22.2.21 Article with list of contributors ‘Leeds War Memorial Fund.’ The Lord Mayor and the Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following contributions:- £ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 4,458 3 7 Mr and Mrs A M McQuat (2d don.) 120 0 0 Illingworth, Ingham and Co Ltd. 100 0 0 W H Woodhead 50 0 0 Jonathan Hattersley & Son Ltd. 25 0 0 Leeds College of Music Students 1s. Fund 15 0 0 A Copton Peak 10 10 0 W S Wildblood 5 5 0 Mrs S A Mosley 5 5 0 Owen and Robinson Ltd. 5 5 0 J A Hine 5 0 0 W G Flockton 2 2 0 A Sykes 1 1 0 C H Wilson 1 1 0 Miss H A Simpson 10 6

Total to date £4,804 3 1

Unknown Publication and Date 1.3.21 (presumed) Article with list of contributors ‘Leeds War Memorial.’ [...] Amount previously acknowledged £4,804 3 1 Dr J Stewart 20 0 0 Petty and Sons (Leeds), Ltd. 10 0 0 Fredk. Sherburn 5 0 0 Holbeck Women’s Liberal Association (per Mrs George Ratcliffe) 2 7 6 E S Whalley 2 0 0 “A North-country Widow” 1 1 0 “A. E. W.” 1 1 0 Total to date £4,845 12 7

YP 8.3.21 Article with list of contributors ‘Leeds War Memorial.’ [...] Amount previously acknowledged £4,845 12 7 Joshua Tetley and Son Ltd. 250 0 0 Mrs James Dymond 10 0 0 Mr and Mrs J O Brooke 4 4 0 Miss Brooke 2 2 0 Mrs Wilson Hartnel 1 1 0 Mrs Trevor Wood 10 0 “Betsy” 2 6

Total to date £5,113 12 1

YP 12.4.21 Article with list of contributors ‘Leeds War Memorial’ [...] Amount previously acknowledged £5,113 12 1 Clayton, Son and Co., Ltd. 50 0 0 Deightons Patent Tube and Flue Company 50 0 0 Henry Berry and Co., Ltd. 42 0 0 The Hon. Mrs Sagar-Musgrave 10 10 0 Mr and the Misses Pflaum 10 0 0 Mr E B Balmforth 5 5 0 Mr A Horsman 1 1 0 “Rob B” 1 1 0 “A Tyke” 10 0 Small donations collected in box in Art Gallery 5 8 4

Total to date £5,289 7 5

YP 24.5.21 Article with list of contributors ‘Leeds War Memorial.’ [...] Amount previously acknowledged £5,289 7 5 F C Mackaskie 52 10 0 Leeds and District Worsted Dyers and Finishers’ Asso., Ltd. 25 0 0 Small donations from box in Art Gallery 2 0 4

Total to date £5,368 17 8

YEN 24.5.21 Article with list of contributors (details as above) ‘Leeds War Memorial. Work Begun on Sculpture That Will Take 12 Months to Finish.’ [...] Mr Fehr estimates that these will take him close upon twelve months to complete. It is likely, however, that the Leeds Corporation will commence the work of preparing the site in City Square before that period has elapsed.

YEP 3.6.21 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial. Work Going Forward on the City Square Cenotaph.’ [...] The order for a truncated pyramid in marble, surmounted by a bronze winged figure of Victory was placed on March 16 with Mr H C Fehr, the London sculptor, whose plaster model of the figure of Victory has now gone to the foundry to be cast in bronze.

YP 19.8.21 Article with list of contributors (see photocopy) ‘Leeds War Memorial’ The Lord Mayor and the Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions:- A Booth £15 0 0 W H Beevers 5 5 0 Mrs Fred Kinder 5 5 0 The Vicar of Leeds 3 3 0 M. K. S. 5 0 Leeds Women’s Liberal Association:- East Hunslet Branch £5 0 0 West Hunslet Branch 2 2 0 Armley Branch 1 14 0 West Branch 1 1 0 Holbeck Branch 1 1 0 Beeston Branch 1 1 0 Headingly Branch 1 1 0 South Branch 1 1 0 North-West Branch 1 1 0 Burley Branch 1 1 0 Burmantofts Branch 1 1 0 New Wortley Branch 2 2 0 Harehills Branch 1 1 0 Some Members of Ex. Comm 1 13 0 General Funds 3 0 0 25 0 0

LM 3.9.21 Article with list of contributors ‘Leeds War Memorial.’ The Lord Mayor and the Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions:- T F Braime and Co. Ltd., £50; Petty and Sons (Leeds) Ltd (second donation), £25; Martin Hirst, £10 10s.; Ald. Farr, £3 3s.; A E Jones, £3 3s.; A E Pearson £2 2s.; Mrs Reyner, £1 1s.; Miss E G Beckwith, £1 1s.; Chas. C Frank, £1 1s.; “Anonymous”, 10s.

YP 13.9.21 Article with list of contributors ‘Leeds War Memorial.’ The Lord Mayor and the Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions to the fund:- £ s. d. John E Davenport 25 0 0 Robert Turton 25 0 0 Dr A G Barrs 10 10 0 W H Clarke J.P. 5 5 0 Mrs Walter Berry 3 3 0 Mr and Mrs David 2 2 0 Ronald T David 0 5 0 T Whitehead 2 0 0

YP 20.9.21 Article with list of contributors ‘Leeds War Memorial. A Donation of £500.’ The Lord Mayor and the Leeds War Memorial Committee acknowledge, with thanks, the following further contributions to the fund:- Messrs. Rupert Beckett and Co. (per the Hon. Rupert Beckett) £500 0 0 Leeds Reception Committee (per Councillor Moore), balance of amount raised for the reception of American and Canadian Trade Delegation 10 16 9

YP 23.11.21 Article with info (on same photocopy as above, take notes from there) ‘The Leeds War Cenotaph’ [...] Mr H C Fehr is making good progress with his work. The memorial will stand on an octagonal base or pedestal. There will be bronze figures of Peace and War on two sides of the truncated pyramid, and on the top of it a bronze winged figure of Victory, holding in one hand a wreath, and in the other an uplifted sword. The figures are already cast, the granite is on its way to England, and the cenotaph will probably be ready for delivery about April or May. The foundation will be put in by the Corporation.

YEP 18.1.22 Article ‘War Losses of Leeds. Memorial Roll Reveals Over 10,000 Names.’ The number of names of Leeds men who fell in the war is greater than was thought hitherto. It is well over 10,000, says Mr C E Mulholland, who is carrying out the duty of arranging the names for inclusion in the War Memorial roll of the city. [...] The name and record of every officer and man who fell will be inscribed on vellum, and a copy of the roll will be deposited in each of the City Free Libraries. [...] The foundation in City Square is to be put in under the superintendence of the Highways Committee of the Corporation, but this work will not begin until the probable date of delivery is known.

YP 5.5.22 Article ‘Leeds City Square Cenotaph.’ [...] The sculptor, Mr H C Fehr, has completed his part of the work, and the bronze figures from the foundry and the dressing of the Carrara marble, of which the pedestal and the pyramid are to be composed, are now being awaited.

YEN 15.6.22 Article with Photograph ‘Tribute to Leeds Heroes’ Workmen in City Square, Leeds, digging the foundations for the city’s War Memorial.

YP 5.8.22 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial. Lord Lascelles to Perform Unveiling Ceremony.’

YEP 6.9.22 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial. Bronzes to Reach Hull from Milan Next Month.’

YEN 30.9.22 Article ‘Leeds War Memorial. Work Nearly Completed and October 14th Suggested for Unveiling.’ [...] The interest has reached its height now that the workmen are engaged in placing the bronze statuary on the marble pedestal which surmounts the stone base.

YP 9.10.22 Article ‘Unveiling of Leeds War Memorial’ Arrangements have been made for the unveiling of the Leeds war memorial to be performed by Viscount Lascelles on Saturday afternoon next, the 14th instant. The actual ceremony will commence at 3.30pm.

YO 11.10.22 Article ‘The Leeds War Memorial’ [...] The memorial is 31ft in height, and its main feature is a winged figure of Victory, in bronze. Three marble steps lead up to an octagonal marble base, and upon this is a square plinth at the corner of which are sculptured owls with outspread wings. From this plinth rises a truncated pyramid of white Carrara marble surmounted by the figure of Victory-the figure holding out in the left hand a wreath and in the right hand a sword. This figure measures 11ft in height from the bronze base to the winged tips.

NB-Articles from the local newspapers on the unveiling, dating from 14.10.22 to 16.10.22 give excellent detail on the order of service at the ceremony, who was present etc, but little information, further to that already in print, is offered in relation to the monument itself.

Appendix 3, Part I-Notes taken from documents held by West Yorkshire Archives

LLD1/3/17 Leeds War Memorial 1918-21: Various Papers, Letters, News cuttings and Prints.

Includes: -A letter of invitation to become a member of the War Memorial Committee from the mayor, dated 14 November 1918.

-Letters from individuals to the Mayor’s Office, of acceptance or refusal to act upon the War Memorial Committee.

-Original plan drawings for the site on Cookridge Street.

-A report dated 28 March 1920, from Sir R. Blomfield (the architect for the original plans), addressed to the Town Clerk, with an estimated cost of £50,000 for the Memorial.

-The Town Clerk’s response to the report dated 13 April 1920, addressed to Sir Blomfield, inviting him to meet with the Committee.

-Invitations to the meetings of the Executive Committee.

-Letters of response to the Invitations.

-Details of the original plans, as described by Sir Blomfield and submitted to the Lord Mayor, dated June 1920.

-A document summarising alternative suggestions for the Memorial to be put before the sub- committee, dated 29 January 1919, giving such suggestions as a hospital for children, almshouses, a Radiological Institute in honour of the fallen, etc.

-A letter to the War Memorial Committee from J. WHITEHEAD & SONS Limited, 64 Kennington Oval, London SE11 (Marble and Stone Sculptors, Estd. 1821), dated 5 July 1920, offering their services for the construction of the Memorial.

-A letter to the War Memorial Committee from BECKETT & SONS Limited, 32 Baker Street, London W1 (Monumental Sculptors and Letter Cutters), dated June 1919, offering their services for the construction of the Memorial.

-A ‘Report of the Special Sub-Committee appointed by the Executive Committee on the 2nd January, 1919, to investigate and report as to the particular form the Memorial should take.’ from the Town Clerk’s Office, dated May 1919.

-A folder entitled ‘Suggestions for War Memorial’ containing many suggestions from individuals, and minutes from a meeting of the War Memorial Committee entitled: ‘Meeting of the Executive Committee held in the Lord Mayor’s Rooms, on Thursday the 2nd day of January 1919’.

-A letter to the Yorkshire Post from Col TW Harding, dated 28 January 1919, with comments on the plans for the memorial.

-A copy of the press article on Colonel Harding’s new Memorial idea, dated 27 January 1921, as noted in Press Cuttings document.

-Letter from Douglas Bowman, Hon. Sec. of the Leeds & West Yorkshire Architectural Society, 5 Greek Street Leeds.

-A letter from the Mayor Albert Braithwaite, dated 2 February 1921, advising that the Cookridge Street scheme designed by Sir Blomfield would no longer go ahead, and inviting the recipient to an exhibition of the new proposal.

Appendix 3, Part II-Notes taken from documents held by West Yorkshire Archives

LLD1/3/18 Leeds War Memorial 1918-21: Correspondence. Various bundles of correspondence, titled as below (the most pertinent appears to be bundle number 4):

1. “Leeds War Memorial Fund Correspondence re Appeal for Funds and ordinary correspondence from 30th January 1920 to 26th April 1920” -Contents described in title, not applicable to Anatomy of Monument due to date.

2. “Leeds War Memorial Correspondence Papers” -Includes a letter dated 26 November 1920, from the Town Clerk to Sir Blomfiled confirming that at the meeting of the Committee, on 25 November 1920, it was decided that sufficient funds could not be raised for his design. -Includes letters to the Town Clerk from Sir Blomfield regarding the abandoned design, dated 10 December 1920 and 4 February 1921. -Includes several letters between the Town Clerk, Blomfield and Harding in reference to the memorial.

3. Untitled bundle of Correspondence, relating to the Roll of Honour -Includes a document detailing the plans for a Roll of Honour, undertaken by Mr C E Mulholland, Secretary of the Leeds Local Committee War Pensions Office, and paid for by the Libraries and Arts Committee: “Leeds War Memorial--Roll of Honour The War Memorial Executive Committee were of the opinion that it was desirable that some permanent record should be made of the names of the men of Leeds who fell in the Great War.

An estimate of the probable cost of a roll of honour was prepared in February 1921. The estimate was £150 for overtime work by the War Pensions Department in collecting the information and £250 cost of printing. [...]

On the 22nd August 1921, at the request of the Lord Mayor (Alderman Braithwaite) instructions were given to Mr. Mulholland to commence work.” [...] photo 100-6972 -Includes a letter from Mr Mulholland to the mayor, with details of how the task is progressing. photo 100-6973

-Includes a letter from Mr. Mulholland dated 1st May 1922 regarding Roll of Honour.

4. “Leeds War Memorial Correspondence, Papers” Contract with Mr H C Fehr within. Offer to erect for the sum of £5000 accepted. (See Town Clerk’s letter dated 16th March) Mr Fehr’s first installment £500 paid 29 April 1921 Guttridge’s first installment of £650 under marble contract Mr Fehr’s 2nd installment of £250 paid 7 July 1921 Mr Fehr’s 3rd installment of £250 paid 5th Oct 1921/17th Dec 1921 Guttridge’s proportion of 2nd installment £500 paid 1 July 1922 Mr Fehr’s 4th installment £300 paid 5 July 1922 Guttridge’s 2nd installment completed £300-26 July. Mr Fehr’s 5th installment £500 paid Sept. 1922

(this includes £300 advanced by Col. Harding”

-Contains a letter from H C Fehr to the Lord Mayor, dated 2 March 1921, in which Fehr officially offers to create the monument for £5000: “[...] I hereby offer to execute and to erect on a refuge, to be provided in the City Square by the Corporation, the MONUMENT complete in accordance with the MODEL, on a scale of two inches to the foot, approved by your Committee and now on exhibit at the Art Gallery in Leeds, for the sum of £5000 (five thousand pounds) payable by instalments [sic] as the work progresses and the final balance on the completion of the monument. The pedestal to be in white marble or in grey granite as you and Colonel Harding shall decide. The three figures shall be in bronze. I estimate that about twelve months will be required for the execution of the work. [...]” -Includes the Town Clerk’s response accepting the offer, dated 16 March 1921. -Includes a letter from A. Guttridge & Co., dated 9 April 1921 with details of the design as below: “[...] I accept to supply the worked marble with gritted face (to a sample I will submit to be approved by you) including carving of the Course F with 4 Owls, the 2 wreaths at the front and back of Course E, and the flags at back and front, with the short inscriptions as indicated on the drawing herewith, at the price as a greed of £1850 Eighteen hundred and fifty pounds. This price includes for the whole of the marble work fixed complete on prepared foundations, we to provide hoarding arround [sic] same during erection (but no watching or lighting) Time for delivery It is understood that we are to erect the monument in the early Spring of 1922, at which date your Bronzes will then be ready for placing in position. Terms of payment. On 7th July after Mr Guttridge has secured the necessary Marble Blocks in Italy for the work. £650:-:- Upon delivery of Marble to Hull or Goole for delivery to Leeds. £600:-:- Upon completion of the erection of the monument to the satisfaction of yourself and Colonel Harding. £600:-:- Total £1850:-:- [...]”

-Includes a letter dated 9 March 1922 from W T Lancashire, the City Engineer, to Col. Harding, advising that the Highways Engineer would be preparing the site. -Includes a letter dated 2 July 1921, in which the Town Clerk requests a cheque be sent to Messrs. A Guttridge & Co., for £650, who held the contract for the marble pedestal. -Includes letters from Arthur Guttridge to Harding and Fehr, dated 28 June 1921: “Dear Mr. Fehr, Leeds War Memorial I have now secured the necessary blocks in the Canal Grande Marble chosen by you and Colonel Harding for the pedestal, and am arranging for the working of same in Carrara to be proceeded with. [...]” -Includes copy of letter sent to Guttridge & Co from H C Fehr, dated 12 April 1921, accepting their offer of £1850 for the marble pedestal: “Dear Mr Guttridge, Leeds War Memorial I accept your estimate of £1850 for the Marble Pedestal for the above War Memorial and I have signed the drawing. Mr. Magnoni will be pleased to give an estimate for the Carving, I shall see him to-morrow and you can use him if the estimate suits your price but you are in no way bound. [...]” -Includes further letters from A. Guttridge & Co, one in particular dated 21 July 1922, to Col. Harding, which references Mr Magnoni, who I believe to be the Carver, assisting the foreman from Carrara (sent by Guttridge & Co.) in the erection of the monument. -Includes letter dated 12 October 1922, from Col. Harding to Sir Robert Fox, which refers to the marble sculptor as Mr Magnoni, and letter dated 18 October 1922, in which Col. Harding requests that a cheque for Mr Carlo Magnoni is sent care of Guttridge & Co. This is acknowledged in a letter

from the Town Clerk dated 20 October 1922, and a cheque is issued to Mr Carlo Magnoni, C/O Guttridge & Co., dated 23 October 1922, for extra expenses incurred as a result of the delay in unveiling the monument.

5. “Leeds War Memorial Correspondence” -Includes correspondence between the council and the War Graves Commission, subscribers, letters from the Mayor to promising subscribers, suggestions for memorials, letters from members of the Committee who wished to resign etc. -Includes a letter from John C Procter, Hon. Sec. of Leeds Civic Society dated 24 December 1920, to the Town Clerk, opposing the City Square Memorial idea, as the square is “sufficiently ornate”.

Appendix 3, Part III-Notes taken from documents held by West Yorkshire Archives

LLD1/3/26 Leeds War Memorial Unveiling documents. 1922-23

Includes: -Tickets for admission to the unveiling ceremony on 14 October 1922. -Note from the Town Clerk advising tickets are sold out. -Note from Town Clerk confirming arrangements for ceremony, advising that the memorial will be unveiled by the Right Hon. Viscount Lascelles, K.G., D.S.O., with a programme for the ceremony enclosed. -Programme for the ceremony, page 1 is typed below (printed by Jowett & Sowry Ltd, Leeds): The Memorial The Memorial is the work of Mr. H. C. Fehr, the London sculptor, who was also responsible for the statue of James Watt which at present stands in City Square. Three marble steps lead up to an octagonal marble base 8 feet across and 4½ feet deep. Upon this is a square plinth, at the corners of which are sculptured owls with outspread wings. From this plinth arises a truncated pyramid of white Carrara marble surmounted by a winged figure of “Victory” in bronze, the figure holding out in the left hand a wreath and in the right a sword. This figure measures 11 feet in height from the bronze base to the winged tips. The total height of the monument is 31 feet. In front of the two sides of the pyramid are bronze ideal figures of “Peace” and “War”. “Peace” is a draped female figure holding aloft a dove. “War” is typified by St. George slaying the dragon, symbolical also of the everlasting struggle between good and evil. The figure of St. George is clothed in decorative armour. On the two sides where no figures appear sculptured flags in marble are introduced. On the front of the pedestal is inscribed “To our glorious Dead”. On the back “Honour to the Fallen”. Under the figure of Peace “Invictis Pax”. Under the figure of St. George “Pro Patria”.

-Hymn sheet for the unveiling of the memorial (printed by Jowett & Sowry Ltd, Leeds). -List of Leeds V.C.’s, with their addresses. -Typed document detailing the Order of Procession. -Photograph of the memorial on the day of the unveiling in City Square. -Letters from individuals requesting tickets for the ceremony. -Letters from war-widows applying for tickets following an announcement in the YEP that widows are entitled to admission to the ceremony on 9 October 1922. -A bundle of documents entitled ‘Leeds War Memorial General Correspondence’, which features: *A letter from the Imperial War Museum to the Town Clerk dated 16 October 1922 requesting details and photographs of the memorial. *A letter of response from the Town Clerk dated 7 November 1922, to the Imperial War Museum, with pictures and details of the memorial for their records. *A document relating to the closing of the streets for the ceremony, a ‘proclamation by the Lord Mayor of Leeds’. *A hand-written document, dated 6 October 1922 with passages from the Bible to be read at the ceremony ‘lesson’, sent to the Town Clerk by Rev. Andrew Geldinning. *A response to the above from the Town Clerk, dated 9 October 1922. *A letter from Rev Heyward dated 5 October 1922 to the Town Clerk, enclosing the words of two suggested hymns for the unveiling.

Appendix 3, Part IIII-Notes taken from documents held by West Yorkshire Archives

LLD1/1/A10135 Town Clerk Agreement relating to the relocation of the War Memorial 1937 Part 1-The Agreement

“Agreement made this fifth day of February one thousand nine hundred and thirty seven

Between J. T. Wright and Sons Limited whose registered Office is situate at Number 85 Skinner Lane in the City of Leeds Building Contractors by the hand of William Leonard Wright duly authorised (hereinafter referred to as the Contractor) of the first part William Leonard Wright of Number 6 The Avenue, Roundhay in the City of Leeds Builder and Robert Webster of Number 24 Sholebroke Mount Chapeltown Road Leeds aforesaid Cashier (hereinafter called the Sureties) of the second part, and the Lord Mayor Alderman and Citizens of the City of Leeds (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation) of the third part. Whereas the Contractor obtained from from the Corporation the printed instructions to persons tendering which are hereto annexed and delivered to the Corporation the Tender hereto annexed and dated the second day of February one thousand nine hundred and thirty seven for constructing completing and maintaining the works and performing the obligations hereinafter mentioned. And whereas the Corporation accepted the said Tender NOW therefore it is hereby covenanted and agreed by and between the Contractor and the Corporation as follows, that is to say The Contractor agrees to construct complete and maintain the taking down of the War Memorial in City Square and Re-erecting same on a site in The Headrow and also the laying out of the said site in the Headrow Leeds aforesaid and to execute provide and do all works materials matters and things shown described referred to or implied herein and in the Conditions of Contract and Specification hereto annexed and the Drawings therein referred to under and subject to the said Conditions of Contract and in accordance with the said Specification and Drawings and in accordance with all further drawings and instructions in the said Conditions of Contract and Specification referred to and to the satisfaction of the Engineer in the said Conditions of Contract mentioned for the sum of nine thousand five hundred and thirty pounds or such other sum as the Engineer shall ascertain and determine to be payable to the Contractor under and subject to the terms and provisions of the said Conditions of Contract.

The Corporation agree under and subject to the terms and provisions of the said Conditions of Contract, to pay to the Contractor the said sum or such other sum as the Engineer shall ascertain and determine to be payable to the Contractor under and subject to the terms and provisions of the said Conditions of Contract.

The Sureties jointly and severally covenant to pay the Corporation the sum of nine hundred and thirty five pounds sterling for which payment to be well and truly paid they jointly and severally bind themselves and each of them and any two or more of them and the heirs executors administrators of them and each of them and of any two or more of them jointly and severally firmly by these presents.

Now the condition of the above-written covenant on the part of the Sureties is such, that if the Contractor shall construct complete and maintain the works described in this Agreement in the manner by the time and in accordance with and subject to the several clauses restrictions provisions and stipulations above referred to and if he shall also duly pay all liquidated damages penalties damages costs charges and expenses to which he shall or may become liable under this Agreement, then the said covenant shall be void otherwise to continue in full force and virtue. Provided always and it is hereby agreed and declared that the Sureties or either of them shall not be released or discharged from the said covenant by any arrangement which may either with or without the assent or notwithstanding the dissent of the Sureties be made between the Contractor and the Corporation or their Engineer or Town Clerk on their behalf, either for alteration abandonment or waiver of any of the clauses restrictions provisions and stipulations above referred to or by any dealing or transaction

waiver forgiveness or by any compromise as to the payment of sums which may become due from the Contractor to the Corporation, or as to the performance or non-performance of any of the obligations of the Contractor under the said Agreement or by any other compromise of whatever kind, which may take place between the Contractor and the Corporation or their Engineer or Town Clerk on their behalf or by any act or default by the Engineer or the Corporation or by any act or omission to act of the Corporation in consequence of the Engineer’s acts or defaults.

In witness whereof the said William Leonard Wright and the Sureties have hereunto set their respective hands and Seals and the Corporation have hereunto affixed their Common Seal the day and year first hereinbefore written.”

[This document was signed by William Leonard Wright as Managing Director Of J. T. Wright and Sons Ltd., in the presence of the Town Clerk, Thos. Thornton, and Clerk, E. L. Rhodes. It was also signed by Robert Webster, as Cashier, in the presence of another Clerk. The Common Seal of the Lord Mayor’s office was added in the presence of the Chairman of the Finance and Parliamentary Committee and the Deputy Town Clerk.]

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LLD1/1/A10135 Town Clerk Agreement relating to the relocation of the War Memorial 1937 Part 2-The Bill of Quantities (22 pages, 230 points)

Pertinent information from this document has been included below:

CITY of LEEDS.

BILL OF QUANTITIES -for the- PROPOSED LAY-OUT of LAND on THE HEADROW and RE-ERECTION of the WAR MEMORIAL, -for the- CORPORATION OF LEEDS.

January 1937.

John C. Procter, F. R. I. B. A., Architect, 40, Clarendon Road, Leeds, 2 [Page 1...]

CONCRETER. The Portland Cement is to be of the best quality from Earles’ “Pelican brand” or equal thereto, approved by the Architect, delivered in sealed bags and of British manufacture, and conforming with the latest British Standard Specification. [Page 4...]

ROCK ASPHALTE WORK. The following work is to be executed in genuine Seyssel or Limmer Rock Asphalte, and laid by a Firm approved by the Architect. [Page 6...]

HARDSTONE. The stone to be from Elland Edge, Greenmoor, or Lightcliffe Quarries, Yorkshire, from the best beds, free from all defects & to be approved by the Architect. [Page 6...]

CROSLAND MOOR STONE. The following Stonework to be from Messrs. George Graham & Sons & Co., Crofthouse Quarries, Crosland Moor, Huddersfield, of best selected block stone free from all defects. [Page 8...]

Green Westmorland Slates, to be obtained from the Tilberthwaite Green Slate Co. Ltd., Kendal. [Page 11...]

TAKING DOWN of WAR MEMORIAL in CITY SQUARE, and Re-Erection on Land in THE HEADROW. DETAILS of WORK. The work comprises the taking down, removal and re-erection of the War Memorial from the present site in City Square to site in The Headrow. [Page 19...]

PROVIDE for TAKING DOWN as follows:- The bronze statuary and all bronze-work to be carefully removed and all marble-work comprising pedestal base and steps around the base to be very carefully taken down and stored for re-erection.

The solid core to the base and steps to be removed and carted away.

The flag paving & circular stone curb around the base of the Memorial to be taken up and carted to the Highway Depot, Kirkstall Road. [Page 20...]

PROVIDE for RE-ERECTION of THE MEMORIAL as follows:- Re-erect the Memorial complete comprising bronze statuary and all bronze-work, marble pedestal with base and steps around the base and provide all the necessary copper dowels and cramps, etc. required. The marble work to be set and jointed in cement mortar.

All Marble Work which may be damaged must be replaced with new marble of the same kind and to be of the best quality.

Any carving on the Memorial which may be damaged must be re-produced, and the Contractor must provide for this item in their Tender. Models of carved work must be prepared by a Carver and must be exactly similar to the present carving. The Carver to be approved by the Architect. [Page 20...]

PROVISIONAL SUMS. Include the Provisional Sum of £80. 0. 0 (Eighty pounds) for Inscription Lettering. [...]

Include the Provisional Sum of £45. 0. 0 (Forty five pounds) for Bronze Rails and Brackets. [Page 21...]

TIME for COMPLETION: The whole of the work shall be completed by the 8th. day of May 1937.

Thos. Priestley & Sons, Quantity Surveyors, 8, Blenheim Terrace, Leeds, 2. [Page 22.]

Appendix 4-Timeline of the major events in the life of the War Memorial

28 March 1920-Report submitted by Sir Reginald Blomfield as to proposed War Memorial

13 April 1920-Response sent to Sir Blomfield from the Town Clerk’s office, inviting him to meet with the War Memorial Committee

10 June 1920-Original design of memorial submitted by Sir Reginald Blomfield, together with a report thereon. Estimated cost £55,000--Generally approved and submitted to Improvements Committee. Instructions given for the designs to be placed in the Art Gallery for public inspection.

17 September 1920-Col TW Harding first visited Leeds with his proposals for a war memorial.

17 November 1920- Col Harding’s second visit, to be the following week, was announced in the presses.

25 November 1920-After little response from the public for War Memorial funds, Col Harding visits Leeds for the second time and submitted his proposals for a new scheme.

26 November 1920-The presses first printed details of the scheme.

27 January 1921-New scheme announced in the papers, complete with illustrations.

2 February 1921-A letter was issued to the subscribers of the original scheme, from the Mayor Albert Braithwaite, advising that the Cookridge Street scheme designed by Sir Blomfield would no longer go ahead, and inviting the recipient to an exhibition of the new proposal.

May 1921-Work officially began on the memorial, with an initial estimate of twelve months to complete.

May 1922-The presses confirmed that Mr Fehr had completed his part of the work for the monument, with the Corporation awaiting the bronze figures from the foundry and the dressing of the Carrara marble, for the pedestal and the pyramid.

September 1922-Workmen commenced assembling the monument in situ and it was completed for the unveiling on 14 October 1922.

14 October 1922-Monument unveiled by Viscount Lascelles at a ceremony attended by tens of thousands of Leeds citizens.

December 1936-Leeds City Council made the decision to create a Garden of Rest on The Headrow. It was to include the War Memorial, which was being relocated due to changes to the traffic system in City Square. The architect was JC Procter.

5 February 1937-Agreement signed relating to the relocation of the monument to the Headrow.

28 October 1937-Monument unveiled in new location, in the Garden of Rest. The Garden was opened by the Lord Mayor Tom Coombs, following a rededication ceremony.

December 1940-Winged figure of Victory by sculptor H.C. Fehr was removed for repair.

11 May 1945-The VE Day (8 May) celebrations marked the end of WWII with a parade.

1946-Victory replaced, following the end of WWII.

1953-Remembrance Ceremony. (Library Ref: LP940.53 L517)

June 1965-Memorial barricaded after public reports that Winged Victory became unstable during a gale.

July 1965-Winged Victory removed. Following the reports in June, cracks were found at the base of the statue.

31 October 1967-Monument capped with marble to disguise the absence of Winged Victory, in time for Remembrance Sunday.

March 1968-The statue of Winged Victory was re-erected in Cottingly Crematorium.

November 1988-The Winged Victory bronze was removed from Cottingly Crematorium and melted down, due to its poor condition. The Head is now displayed in Leeds City Art Gallery.

October 1990-The Henry Moore Trust agrees to fund a new statue for the Memorial.

10 November 1991-Monument rededicated on Remembrance Sunday to commemorate the addition of the Angel of Peace, by local sculptor Ian Judd in place of the original figure of Winged Victory. This coincides with the 70th anniversary of the British Legion Poppy Appeal.

1997-Protective railings installed.

November 2008-Leeds City Council spend £15,000 on cleaning and restoring the Memorial in time for Remembrance Sunday, which is commemorating 90 years since the end of WWI.

Appendix 5-Letter issued by the Mayor’s office dated January 1920 (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 6-Letter issued by the Town Clerk dated 1 June 1920 (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 7-Reginald Blomfield’s correspondence (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 8-Invitation to viewing of proposed design dated 25 June 1920 (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 9-Col Harding letter to Yorkshire Post dated 28 January 1919 (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 10-Article from Yorkshire Post dated 27 January 1921

Appendix 11-Letter issued by Lord Mayor’s office dated 2 February 1921 (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 12-HC Fehr Letter dated 2 March 1921 (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 13-War Memorial Correspondence (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 14-Carlo Magnoni Naturalisation Article (The London Gazette, 18 May 1954)

Appendix 15-Correspondence from Rev Heyward (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 16-Announcement for the Unveiling Ceremony (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 17-Original ‘Order of Procession’ document (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 18-Original Correspondence from the West Yorkshire Archives

Appendix 19-Original ‘Closing of the Streets’ document (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 20-Original Unveiling Ceremony documents (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 21-Original Unveiling Ceremony photograph (West Yorkshire Archives)

Appendix 22-The completed Garden of Rest on the Headrow (1937)

Appendix 23-Programme for the opening of the Garden of Rest (28 October 1937)

Appendix 24-The War Memorial under repair (1940)

Appendix 25-Letter to Ian Judd from Robert Hopper, Director of HMST (Judd’s personal archives)

Appendix 26-Letter to Ian Judd from Robert Hopper, Director of HMST (Judd’s personal archives)

Appendix 27-Interview with Ian Judd

Sarah Hanson interviews Ian Judd at his sculpture studio in Halifax Date: Thursday 9 September 2010

SH: OK thank you for meeting with me, I’ve got a few questions for you. So, if you could, first of all just to get a bit of general background, if you could say a few words about yourself and your background.

IJ: Ah, well it depends where do you want to start?

SH: Well, your formal education, how you came to be a sculptor?

IJ: It was kind of by accident really. When I left school I went into graphics, I did a- I worked in a graphics studio and I thought I was better than I actually was. But I decided, when I realised I wasn’t that wonderful, I decided to go to art school, so I didn’t go til I was about 29, something like that, went to Wimbledon, did a Foundation, then I went to... well when I was at Wimbledon I did, all sorts of, as you do on a Foundation, you sort of experiment with stuff and I quite liked the sculpture side of it, so I went to Farnham to do sculpture, so I started off doing that. And then when I left I got a studio down there, near Bawden, and I met my then girlfriend who was a textile designer and she came up here to do a post-graduate at Leeds University and then she got a job up here and I moved up here as well, so I thought it would be a good place to come because there’s lots of stone so...

SH: That’s true.

IJ: And I was quite into that at the time.

SH: OK, so what influenced your evolution as a sculptor from those beginnings?

IJ: Erm... that’s a tricky one isn’t it. So many things... Well I got into figurative art at Farnham, because I’d played around with abstract stuff and I just got bored, because it was all done so quickly really. I thought there must be more to this than that so I just... once you start doing figures and things there’s just so much to do, that you don’t get chance to get bored, it’s a challenge all the time.

SH: So, any actually sculptors or genres or styles that actually influenced your style?

IJ: Well when you have a look round here you’ll find there’s all sorts of things, I’m always getting influenced by somebody or other. I think everybody is really, you know I mean there’s always something that someones done that kind of sparks something else off, but a lot of the late Victorian stuff I quite like and the early twentieth century.

SH: Having familiarised myself with your work it seems to be predominantly public sculptures.

IJ: Well, it’s kind of, I’ve done a few, but I haven’t done that many really. I mean, perhaps more than some people have but, no a lot of it is to private buyers, private collectors.

SH: Smaller scale?

IJ: Yeah, yeah. There have been one or two big-ish things but not as big as the public stuff.

SH: The reason I’m here, I’m really interested in learning how you became involved with the War Memorial project, so how did that happen?

IJ: Well the Henry Moore Trust moved over to Dean Clough and so it might have been... and also I’d done the JB Priestly statue, and so I’d got to know Robert Hopper. And they were looking for someone to do this, to do a new statue and so he just asked me, could I do it, could I do some drawings? And it just kind of led on from there really. There was no, if they hadn’t liked it, somebody else would have got the job no doubt, but it seemed to go down alright and they were quite, well it was one of those things where they were, and I think there was quite a lot of politics involved and they wanted to get it done quickly for some reason, I don’t know quite why. Perhaps there was money at the time but there wouldn’t have been money later, something like that because the council were paying for the actual, well they were paying for a lot of it, and there was one councillor who was very keen on restoring cemeteries and monuments and things, and maybe he was keen to get it done while he could, so there was a little bit of a rush really. Well there was a rush at the end but there didn’t seem to be much of a rush at the beginning, so it made it worse at the end.

SH: As you say, the council were funding a lot of it. Did you therefore have any parameters or guidelines that you were restricted to working within?

IJ: Well, if you have a look at the maquette, it’s quite stocky and the ankles are quite solid-looking. And the drapery is there to support it as well, as they were very anxious about the whole thing not falling over, because of the last one cracking at the ankles, so I made the ankles a bit on the heavy side and gave it this extra bit and that seemed to be the main thing really. Apart from the business with the flowers and everything, because they just wanted another statue, which was Victory with a sword and all that. And it was my idea to do the flower thing.

SH: Can you elaborate on the flower thing?

IJ: I thought perhaps we should have a peace statue rather than one that was celebrating war, you know the Victory in the war and all that. That seemed to go down alright.

SH: Are the flowers symbolic for anything?

IJ: Well, they were going to be poppies, but poppies don’t really work on that, poppies are a bit... you don’t really have a bunch of poppies, so they were really, well I suppose flowers are kind of symbolic of love and peace and so they’re roses I think really.

SH: I read somewhere that the certain number of flowers represents the certain number of fallen soldiers, is that true?

IJ: Not for me, it just happened to be what worked at the time really. I’m not sure how many there are, I can’t remember now. I think they’re all a bit of a blob, they’ve all kind of joined together.

SH: Do you know who was involved throughout the whole process, from start to end? Did you have direct dealing with everybody, such as the council, the funding bodies, war societies, studio assistants?

IJ: It was mainly one of the councillors, who I only met briefly, it might have been Councillor Gabb, I can’t remember now and John Thorpe, who was the lead architect at the time, I think he’s head of the architecture stuff at Leeds now, he was quite well involved in it, and Robert Hopper, but that was about it really.

SH: So you didn’t have to deal so much directly with any war committees or anything like that?

IJ: No, there wasn’t any of that. I suppose as soon as they got planning permission, they just went ahead, I don’t know really. I suppose they were happy with it.

SH: Did you witness any of the other restrictions that there were, you say there was a rush towards the end to get it done, from the council, did they cause any other hurdles that you had to overcome?

IJ: No it was really, it was one of those things where they gave me the commission and said, “But can you get it done for November the 11th?” and I said, “I’ll try” and that became kind of gospel, sort of “It will be done by then”. Everybody assumed it would be done, so I did my best to do it. It’s one of those things where you have to work with the foundry as well, they’ve got certain things that they have to do, that they promise to people and I had to get it down to London at a certain time so that they could make a start on it. At the end it was a last minute thing, I mean it went up a few days before. And the colour was a bit strange because they had to patinate it, or put the wax on when it was still a bit warm I think and before the patination had kind of settled down, and so there were kind of light coloured blotches an things on it. I think that’s all kind of mellowed now, I think it evens out after a while.

SH: That’s quite interesting.

IJ: It did look a bit odd to start with, I was a bit worried.

SH: I’ll look more closely next time I see it. So did you feel a certain amount of pressure due to the sensitive nature of the subject? It being a War Memorial and commemorating fallen soldiers of Leeds?

IJ: Well obviously you want to do a, you want to make a nice job of it. And that was the tricky bit really, trying to do it quickly but at the same time do a decent job of it, so I mean I had to not just make it, but take a mould off it and cast it in plaster as well, all in a couple of months. I had some help with making the mould so that was alright and fortunately the model I was using was free, so everything just seemed to knit together so it was alright really. It was kind of fortuitous.

SH: Was your proposal ever on public display like the original war memorial?

IJ: I don’t think it was, no. There was a time when it was in Dean Clough, on display but I’m not sure if that’s the maquette, that may have been afterwards, that may have been after they took the decision, so really it was the councillors and the various people who were on the Henry Moore Trust who had made the decision. I think if it had been on public display, they would have had to have several ideas I think, so that people could actually make a decision or have an opinion on it, but I don’t think there was really time to do that. They could have had a competition but then that would have been another year or two before anything happened. I think they just wanted to see something up there because they were fed up of this sort of truncated thing. When I first came to Leeds, I didn’t realise there had been something on it, there’d always been this obelisk, a bit like that thing in London, the cenotaph, I just assumed it was a granite column with these two figures either side. It wasn’t until later I discovered there had been a figure on top.

SH: In terms of the people you had closely involved with you, you say you had a model and you say you had help making the moulds. How many assistants did you have?

IJ: Just one, Ralph Grattan. I do picture-framing with him here, so we’re still pals after all that.

SH: And how do you see the role of art in public spaces?

IJ: I think it ought to mean something apart from just being decor really. I like all those figures on, is it Park Row in Leeds? Those old buildings with all the terracotta figures, I like all that kind of thing

and I think it has a role, but it doesn’t fit in with a lot of modern architecture, so I don’t know how you get round that really.

SH: What are you currently working on?

IJ: I’m going to have an exhibition here sometime next year so I’m just doing bits and pieces, which I’ll show you later and you can see what I’m up to.

SH: Will it be an exhibition of new work?

IJ: Some of it will be new, but I’m not doing any big stuff at the moment, I thought I was going to get one actually for a place down south but it’s sort of on the back-burner at the moment, so we’ll just have to see about that.

SH: Interestingly actually, in light of current financial cutbacks from the government, how do you see the future of public art?

IJ: Well I think, most of the other things I’ve done, there’s been a recession on at the time anyway, so I don’t think it’s going to make a lot of difference really, I mean a lot of this stuff is quite cheap really. It’s not like Anthony Gormley’s stuff where it’s hundreds of thousands. Most of the stuff is done for local councils and things and public art is fairly inexpensive and I don’t think it’s going to make a lot of difference really. If someone’s got an idea or there’s something they really need doing, like the Angel thing, I think they’ll find the money if they really want it. I think there’s still plenty of money out there really, just a lot of people don’t know what to spend it on. People are happy enough to spend £200,000 on a sports car, there must be some cash around.

SH: In terms of your previous work and also your current work, what materials do you favour working with?

IJ: Well, I do like bronze, I like bronze and stone, but stone can be trickier really, because it’s expensive, people don’t realise how much it costs and how much it costs to move it. The amount of work is just horrendous really, if it’s big. It’s nice when it’s done. But also of course, it’s very tricky getting hold of a decent bit of stone, getting hold of stone that hasn’t got cracks and holes and flaws and things in. And if you want to do something quite decorative, you’ve really got to spend a lot of money to get a piece of stone that you can do it with. You’re talking thousands sometimes.

SH: For your current work, do you employ any studio assistants?

IJ: No, I just get on with it myself. It would be quite handy sometimes, to have someone around, but often there’s nobody around so you just do it yourself.

SH: More about your current commissions. Where do you find the majority of your commissions come from?

IJ: Well, all the ones I’ve had lately, they’ve just been small things, but it’s been word-of-mouth, or people who’ve seen stuff somewhere else and got in touch with me. I don’t have an agent or a gallery, although I put stuff in galleries occasionally. It’s just usually people getting in touch, if people try and find me then often I can show them the website or something and they can have a look and see, it’s just like having a portfolio that you don’t have to carry around, so it’s quite handy really.

SH: I think that might be all my questions, except for, in terms of the whole process, which do you prefer, public commissions or private commissions? Are you freer in either respect?

IJ: I think you’re free either way really, because you can only do what you do, so you do something and either they like it or they don’t. It’s not as if anybody’s really telling you what to do because people ask me for ideas, which I come up with and then if they want something different then they’d have to go somewhere else. There’s no artistic pressure, it’s more to do with where it will go and if somebody wants something that is impossible to put in the place they want it, if it’s too big or something like that.

SH: Finally, what’s your favourite public piece that you’ve done?

IJ: Hmm... My favourite piece?

SH: I have a list of them here if you’d like to look over it...

IJ: There can’t be that many can there? I don’t know if I’ve got a favourite really, I like bits of all of them and there’s bits of all of them I really don’t like. You can’t go back and change something, you can’t get up on a ladder outside the Henry Moore Trust with a file and start doing a bit of work, they wouldn’t appreciate it...

SH: No, I don’t think they would. OK shall we now have a look around your studio?

IJ: Yeah, can do.

SH: Thank you very much.

Appendix 28-Photograph of Judd’s original maquette

Appendix 29-Original sketch of Angel and original photographs (Judd’s personal archives)

Appendix 30-List of Public Subscriptions (extracted from Press Cuttings)

31.1.20 Alderman W Penrose-Green, £1,000 Councillor Joseph Clark, £1,000 Messrs. William Lupton and Co £1,000 Mr and Mrs Frank Gott, £250 Casualty Clearing Station Canteen Fund-2-3rd W R Regiment, £20 Armistice Thanksgiving Service (balance to collection), £83 1s. 8d. Marshall Street Congregational Church Collection, £15 15s. Officers, C.O.’s and Men of L Corps Signal Co. R.E., £11 18s. 1d. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress (Mr and Mrs T B Duncan), £50 Sir Michael and Lady Sadler, £100 The Rev A G Haste, £2 2s.; Councillor F Bentley, £26 5s. Miss L C Lowe £5 Joseph Henry (Limited), £50 Lt Col and Mrs Kitson Clark, £100 The Hon Edward Wood MP, £100 Miss Dorothy Hepton, £10 Alderman C H Wilson £21 A J Sanders Esq, £10 10s. The Hon Roland D Kitson, £10 Alderman H Brown, £21 Alderman G Ratcliffe, £21 Alderman Arthur Willey, £100 Mr F Dymond, £50 Clokes Extension (Ltd), £26 5s. Councillor Philip Marsden, £105

4.2.20 Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Co. (“The Yorkshire Post” and allied papers), £250 Mr W Hoffman Wood and Miss Wood, £105 Mr J R Mozley, and Messrs. Fearnside Bros., £10 10s. Mr George A Hart, £10 Mr A Brooke, £5 5s. Miss E Garbutt, and Leeds Butchers’ Sick Society (per J Barker, sec.), £2 2s. each Mr F C Long £1 1s. Mr W B Goodrick, £1 1s. Mr Niels Larsen, £1 ‘A Mother who has lost in the War”, £1

11.2.20 Leeds Industrial Co-Operative Society (Limited), £250 A M McQuat, £150 Councillor Morrison, £100 C E Fulford (Limited), £100 William Greenwood, £50 Mr and Mrs B Day, £30 H M Hepworth, £26 5s. S Scott Stanley, £26 5s. North and Sons, £21 Murphy and Son (Limited), £20

Councillor and Mrs Leigh, £20 5th Vol Batt West Yorkshire Regiment (per Major Rush), £20 Councillor J Blackburn, £15 The firm of George Needham, Benjamin Greaves and J H Bean and Co (Limited), £10 10s. each The Hon Hilda Kitson, £10 H Herbert Kitson, £10 Col and Mrs A E Kirk, £10 F W Jones, £10 Simpson, Fawcett, and Co., £10 Mrs Alice K Taylor, £10 Mr and Mrs James Wilson, £5 5s. John Craig, £5 5s. Time Recorders (Leeds) (Limited), £5 5s. J C Spink, £5 5s. Levy Brothers, £5 5s. Harry Taylor and Wortley Working Men’s Institute (per J Firth, hon. secretary) £5 5s. J Hampshire, £5 Mrs R H Braithwaite, £5 J H Strike, £5 Thomas Middleton, £5 A H Hurtley £5 J F Weatherall, £3 3s. J W Green and Sons, £2 2s. J E Abbott, £2 2s. Thomas Constantine, £2 2s. Miss Alice Silcox, £2 2s. Mrs J W Rowley, £2 2s. Arthur Rushworth, £2 2s. G E Trenam, £2 2s. Mr M Goldstone, £2 2s. F W Chester, £1 1s. J Jackson Lilley, £1 1s. Singer and Levy, £1 1s. H W Symons, £1 1s. George S Gordon, £1 1s. Miss C Coignou, £1 1s. Isidore Goldman, £1 1s. Ferdinand Fowkes, £1 William Davis, £1 Fred Ashton, £1 Edward Moore, £1 Frank Sadler, £1 Miss Josephy, £1 Miss C Josephy, £1 Mrs T Atkinson, £1 Misses K and H Josephy, £1 J L Barnett, 10s. 6d. W E Hebden, 10s. Mrs H E Taylor, 10s. Councillor Foster, 10s. Mr and Mrs J Thrippleton, 7s. 6d. W Nelson, 2s. 6d. E J Harrison, 2s. 6d.

Mrs P Metcalfe, 2s. 6d.

18.2.20 Edmondson’s Warehouse (Ltd.), £100 Alderman and Mrs Charles Lupton, £100 Thos. Coombs and Son, £25; S and L Ash Brothers (Ltd.), £21 Robert Armitage MP, £20 Staff and employees of Edmondson’s Warehouse (Ltd.), £13 1s. 2d. Hy. Boyfield Ltd., £10 10s. Peckover, Scriven and Co., £10 10s. Robert L Whitfield, £10 J P Hubbersty, £10 Eveleign Bishop, £10 Trust Houses Ltd. (Hotel Victory), £5 5s. Harry Ratcliffe, £5 5s. E Burrows, £5 Win Haigh, £5 Edward Burn, £3 3s. Boult Bros., £3 3s. T H Bennett, £2 2s. Style and Mantle, £2 2s. H W Kilvington, £1 1s. Miss Olive Middleton, £1 1s. Geo. W Walker, £1 1s. Rabbi H Hurwitz, £1 1s. Angus Birkbeck, £1 1s. J B McNiff, £1 R W Hudson, £1 Mrs S A Coultate, 10s. Geo. H Mynett, 10s. J Robinson, 5s. Geo. Jepson, 5s. Miss Chapelow, 2s. 6d.

3.3.20 Walter Scott (Limited) (Leeds Steel Works), £100 F J Kitson, £100 Mr and Mrs F C Kitson, £21 Mrs Margaret White, £10 10s. James Sykes, £5 5s. George Glover and Co. (Limited), £5 5s. The firm and employees of Wear and Burrows (Limited), £5 5s. Tempest, Toothill and Tempest, £3 3s. Mrs Julia Wood, £3 3s. Mrs Emily Morritt, £2 10s. Mr and Mrs Robinson, £2 10s. D Smith, £1 1s. A Davy and Sons (Limited), £1 1s. Councillor Wood, 10s. Miss Bessie Cawood 10s. Miss M A S Smeeton, 10s. Frederick Burt, 5s.

Mrs S Turner, 2s. 6d.

10.3.20 “Wellwisher”, £50 Mrs C Muir, £10 Miss Jessie Burgess, £10 Miss S Hayton, £2 2s. Mr and Mrs T G Wintle, £2 2s. A Yewdall, £1 1s. Mrs E Mitchell, 2s. 6d. H Smith, 2s. 6d.

17.3.20 W J Cousins and Fletcher £10 10s. Councillor Hawkesworth £5 Employees of Arthur and Co., Ltd. £4 17s. 1d. H Parrish £1

31.3.20 Leech and Sinkinson (Limited), £52 10s. W Williams, £5 The Oak Bowling Club, £3 3s. S Sandstone, £1 (7) M. H., £1 R W Hornsey, 2s. 6d.

22.5.20 “Anonymous”, £100 Richardson Bros. and Co., £10 10s. Mrs and Misses Rowley, £2

9.6.20 Leeds Municipal Officers’ Guild (Official Welcome Fund), £7 14s. 8d. Employees of Arthur and Co., Ltd. (Belle Vue Factory), £3 0s. 6d.

28.7.20 Staff and students, Yorkshire Training College of Housecraft, £14 Miss M Oldroyd, £2

9.2.21 £ s. d. The Lord Mayor (Albert Braithwaite) 50 0 0 Colonel Harding 200 0 0 Harding, Rhodes, and Co (Ltd.) 100 0 0 H D Leather 50 0 0 A W Bain 50 0 0 W Firth 50 0 0 Henry Brown 26 5 0 Joseph Watson 21 0 0 Reynolds and Branson (Ltd.) 12 10 0 Frank Woodhead 10 10 0 Timothy Newby 10 10 0 J F Syme 10 0 0

T G Porter 10 0 0 Mrs R L Wilson 10 0 0 G G S Grundy 5 0 0 Mrs R H Braithwaite 5 0 0 H J Robson 3 3 0 Miss G M Toogood 2 2 0 Miss Barber 1 1 0 Rev J Wylde 1 0 0 Percy R Taylor 10 0 Anonymous 2 6

15.2.21 £ s. d. Wm. H Kitson 50 0 0 Messrs. Wilkinson and Warburton 26 5 0 Mrs R Hudson 25 0 0 Mr and Mrs R K Calvert 21 0 0 J C Atkinson 10 10 0 R Haste Carr 5 5 0 C E Warren 5 5 0 Dr J Holmes 5 5 0 Mrs J Holmes 5 5 0 D H Gordon Smith 5 5 0 D R Glover 5 5 0 J W Foxcroft 5 5 0 Miss J B Kitson 1 1 0 Miss Hannah Cass 1 1 0

22.2.21 £ s. d. Mr and Mrs A M McQuat (2d don.) 120 0 0 Illingworth, Ingham and Co Ltd. 100 0 0 W H Woodhead 50 0 0 Jonathan Hattersley & Son Ltd. 25 0 0 Leeds College of Music Students 1s. Fund 15 0 0 A Copton Peak 10 10 0 W S Wildblood 5 5 0 Mrs S A Mosley 5 5 0 Owen and Robinson Ltd. 5 5 0 J A Hine 5 0 0 W G Flockton 2 2 0 A Sykes 1 1 0 C H Wilson 1 1 0 Miss H A Simpson 10 6

Unknown Publication and Date 1.3.21 (presumed) £ s. d. Dr J Stewart 20 0 0 Petty and Sons (Leeds), Ltd. 10 0 0 Fredk. Sherburn 5 0 0 Holbeck Women’s Liberal Association (per Mrs George Ratcliffe) 2 7 6

E S Whalley 2 0 0 “A North-country Widow” 1 1 0 “A. E. W.” 1 1 0

8.3.21 £ s. d. Joshua Tetley and Son Ltd. 250 0 0 Mrs James Dymond 10 0 0 Mr and Mrs J O Brooke 4 4 0 Miss Brooke 2 2 0 Mrs Wilson Hartnel 1 1 0 Mrs Trevor Wood 10 0 “Betsy” 2 6

12.4.21 £ s. d. Clayton, Son and Co., Ltd. 50 0 0 Deightons Patent Tube and Flue Company 50 0 0 Henry Berry and Co., Ltd. 42 0 0 The Hon. Mrs Sagar-Musgrave 10 10 0 Mr and the Misses Pflaum 10 0 0 Mr E B Balmforth 5 5 0 Mr A Horsman 1 1 0 “Rob B” 1 1 0 “A Tyke” 10 0 Small donations collected in box in Art Gallery 5 8 4

24.5.21 £ s. d. F C Mackaskie 52 10 0 Leeds and District Worsted Dyers and Finishers’ Asso., Ltd. 25 0 0 Small donations from box in Art Gallery 2 0 4

19.8.21 A Booth £15 0 0 W H Beevers 5 5 0 Mrs Fred Kinder 5 5 0 The Vicar of Leeds 3 3 0 M. K. S. 5 0 Leeds Women’s Liberal Association:- East Hunslet Branch £5 0 0 West Hunslet Branch 2 2 0 Armley Branch 1 14 0 West Branch 1 1 0 Holbeck Branch 1 1 0 Beeston Branch 1 1 0 Headingly Branch 1 1 0 South Branch 1 1 0 North-West Branch 1 1 0 Burley Branch 1 1 0 Burmantofts Branch 1 1 0 New Wortley Branch 2 2 0

Harehills Branch 1 1 0 Some Members of Ex. Comm 1 13 0 General Funds 3 0 0

3.9.21 T F Braime and Co. Ltd., £50 Petty and Sons (Leeds) Ltd (second donation), £25 Martin Hirst, £10 10s. Ald. Farr, £3 3s. A E Jones, £3 3s. A E Pearson £2 2s. Mrs Reyner, £1 1s. Miss E G Beckwith, £1 1s. Chas. C Frank, £1 1s. “Anonymous”, 10s.

13.9.21 £ s. d. John E Davenport 25 0 0 Robert Turton 25 0 0 Dr A G Barrs 10 10 0 W H Clarke J.P. 5 5 0 Mrs Walter Berry 3 3 0 Mr and Mrs David 2 2 0 Ronald T David 0 5 0 T Whitehead 2 0 0

20.9.21 Messrs. Rupert Beckett and Co. (per the Hon. Rupert Beckett) £500 0 0 Leeds Reception Committee (per Councillor Moore), balance of amount raised for the reception of American and Canadian Trade Delegation £10 16 9

Appendix 31-Major Contributing Parties

Public Subscribers

Leeds War Memorial Executive Committee members over the years: Alderman C H Wilson JP Alderman C Lupton Alderman J R Ford Alderman W E Farr Mr George W Atkinson (resigned) Mr Robert Armitage MP Mrs Armitage The Vicar of Leeds Mr Henry Barran Mr Chapman Sir John McLaren (resigned) Mr H I Bowring Mr Joseph Watson Mr Frank Gott Colonel E A Hirst Mr E G Arnold Alderman Willey Col Kitson Clark Miss B Kitson Cllr Joseph Clark Mr T B Duncan (Lord Mayor at the time of the original proposals) The Lady Mayoress Deputy Lord Mayor (Alderman Frank Fountain) Mr A G Lupton Mr Walter Rowley Mr Joseph Henry (former Lord Mayor) Sir Robert Fox (Secretary and Town Clerk) Rupert Beckett (Honorary Treasurer) Col T W Harding (former Lord Mayor) Albert Braithwaite (Lord Mayor at the time of the new Cenotaph proposals) Sir Reginald Blomfield

CE Mulholland, Leeds (War Pensions Office Secretary, compiled the list of the fallen from WWI) Viscount Lascelles (Performed the opening ceremony in 1922) Reverand Heyward (Conducted the sermon at the opening ceremony in 1922) Rev. Andrew Geldinning (Participated in the opening ceremony) John C. Procter, FRIBA., Leeds (Architect of the Garden of Rest 1937)

Councillor Gabb (Council Member in 1991) John Thorp (Lead Architect in 1991) Robert Hopper (Director of the Henry Moore Trust in 1991) Benedict Read (Associate of Robert Hopper & HMT) Terry Friedman (Associate of Robert Hopper & HMT) Sir Alan Bowness (Chairman of HMT)

Henry Charles Fehr (Sculptor, London, created the bronze statues for the Memorial in 1922) Carlo Domenico Magnoni, London (Marble sculptor, carved the marble for the Memorial in 1922) Ian Judd (Sculptor, Leeds, responsible for the bronze statue of the Angel of Peace in 1991)

Ralph Grattan (Ian Judd’s Studio Assistant for the Angel of Peace) Lou Sumray (Ian Judd’s model for the Angel of Peace)

Suppliers etc: -Jowett & Sowry-Printers, Leeds -Carrara Marble: Guttridge & Co., Marble, Granite and Stone Merchants: 134 Cheapside, London EC2 -Crosland Moor Stone: Messrs. George Graham & Sons & Co., Crofthouse Quarries, Crosland Moor, Huddersfield -Yorkshire Hardstone: Elland Edge, Greenmoor, or Lightcliffe Quarries, Yorkshire -Green Westmorland Slates: Tilberthwaite Green Slate Co. Ltd., Kendal -Portland Cement (1937 Garden of Rest): Earles’ Pelican Brand -Contractor (1937 Garden of Rest): JT Wright & Sons, Leeds -Quantity Surveyor (1937 Garden of Rest): Thos. Priestley & Sons, Blenheim Terrace, Leeds -A&A Foundry, London (Cast the Angel of Peace in 1991)

Bibliography, resources and documents relating to the monument.

Yorkshire Newspapers:

Yorkshire Post Evening News Evening Post Leeds Mercury Herald Observer Weekly Post

Other Newspapers:

The London Gazette, 18 May 1954

Online Resources:

Discovering Leeds www.leodis.net

United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials www.ukniwm.org.uk

English Heritage www.english-heritage.org.uk

War Memorials www.warmemorials.org

Roll of Honour www.roll-of-honour.com

York Stories www.yorkstories.co.uk

The Colchester War Memorial Site www.camulos.com/war/memorial

English Heritage Images of England www.imagesofengland.org.uk

Luke Hughes & Co www.lukehughes.co.uk

Your Archives www.yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Leeds Art Gallery www.leedsartgallery.co.uk

Leeds City Council www.leeds.gov.uk

Royal Society of British Sculptors www.rbs.org.uk

Silver Stealth www.silverstealth.co.uk

Central Library Resources:

Leeds War Memorial 1920 Original Documents Central Library Ref LQP 940.465 L517

Leeds War Memorial Press Cuttings Central Library Ref LQ 940.465 L517 / LQ 940.46 LEE

Programme commemorating the installation of the War Memorial into the Garden of Rest 28 October 1937 Central Library Ref L 352.68 L517

Remembrance at the War Memorial Sunday 8 November 1953 Central Library Ref LP 940.53 L517

Annual Report of the Improvements Committee to the Council for the Year Ended 31st of March 1938

Published Literature and other Publications cited:

King, Alex-Memorials of the Great War in Britain Berg, Oxford, Great Britain 1998

Boorman, Derek-A Century of Remembrance: One Hundred Outstanding British War Memorials Pen & Sword, Barnsley, Great Britain 2005

Boorman, Derek-At the Going Down of the Sun: British First World War Memorials Ebor Press, York, Great Britain 1988

Archer, Geoffrey-The Glorious Dead: Figurative Sculpture of British First World War Memorials Frontier Publishing, Kirkstead, Great Britain 2009

Burt, S. and Grady, K.-The Illustrated History of Leeds Breedon Books, Derby, Great Britain 2002

Leeds City Council-Leeds: The Capital of the Centre of Britain LCC, Leeds, Great Britain 1976

Thornton, D.-Leeds: The Story of a City Fort Publishing, Ayr, Great Britain 2002

Gilleghan, J.-Leeds: An A to Z of Local History Kingsway Press, Great Britain 2001

Fraser, D. (Ed.)-A History of Modern Leeds Manchester University Press, Manchester 1980

Beresford, M.W. and Jones G.R.J. (Eds.)-Leeds and its Region British Association for the Advancement of Science, Leeds Executive 1967

Pietro Dipaola ‘Italian Anarchists in London (1870-1914)’ PhD Paper, Goldsmith’s College, April 2004

T Friedman et al (eds.) ‘The Alliance of Sculpture and Architecture: Hamo Thornycroft, John Belcher and the Institute of Chartered Accountants Building’ Exhibition Catalogue, Heinz Gallery, RIBA, London 14 Jan-20 Feb 1993

Jon Wood et al (eds.), Modern Sculpture Reader The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 2007