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Pontefract Years in Focus 1953 |
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YEARS IN
FOCUS
LOCAL NEWS AND EVENTS OF THE 1950s
PONTEFRACT IN 1953
6th February 1953
CIVIC CALLS FOR HELP FOR FLOOD VICTIMS
Calls
for help for the flood victims have gone out from civic leaders
throughout the Pontefract and Castleford district. The Mayor of
Pontefract, Alderman F.D. Leach, at the meeting of the Town Council, on
Wednesday, expressed the town’s sympathy with all those who have
suffered loss and bereavement in the disaster, both in England and the
Netherlands. In his public appeal he says: -
"I
feel sure that it will be the wish of all of us who have been spared
this misfortune to render as quick as possible, all the aid of which we
are capable. I have therefore, decided to open a Mayor’s Fund, which
is designed to render assistance in East Anglia and in the Thames
Estuary. I would mention, with gratitude, that Messr’s Johnson
[Pontefract] have promised to start the fund with a donation of £100.
All contributions large or small will gratefully be acknowledged, by Mr.
M.N. Walton, at the Municipal Offices in Pontefract. In addition,
licensees, cinema proprietors and a number of shopkeepers in the town
have been asked to exhibit collecting boxes on their premises, into
which customers wishing to do so may place their contributions, however
small.
[
1953 Index ]
Years
in Focus is researched by Maurice Haigh and reproduced with the kind
permission of the Pontefract and Castleford Express.
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