Timeline 1900 to 1919
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1900 |
Formal opening of Public Baths. |
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1900 |
Gildersome St Bernard's station opened |
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Death of Queen Victoria |
1901 |
Sewage Purification Works opened. |
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1903 |
First Meeting of Education Committee on abolition of School Board |
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1906 |
Morley Secondary (later Grammar) School commenced. |
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1906 |
New fire station opened behind Town Hall |
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1906 |
Library opened by Sir Hall Caine. |
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HH Asquith becomes Prime Minister |
1908 |
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1909 |
Morley Main Colliery closed |
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1911 |
Opening of the Morley tramway route to Leeds |
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1911 |
Presentation of Scatcherd Park by Exors of the late Mr Oliver Scatcherd, J.P. |
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Titanic sinks on maiden voyage |
1912 |
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1913 |
Freedom of the Borough conferred on the Rt. Hon. H.H. Asquith, Prime Minister. |
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Start of World War I |
1914 |
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Russian Revolution |
1917 |
Charles Scarth bought and gave Morley Hall for use as a maternity hospital |