Burnley Technical Institute Students Social Committee

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iBase ID

278216

Reference identifier

EBU20190430004

Title

Burnley Technical Institute Students Social Committee

Place

Burnley

Personal names

Mr. Crabtree, Mr. Crossley, Mr. Taylor, Thomas Crossland ; Mrs. J. Sellers-Kay, James Sellers-Kay, Miss Burley.

General notes

Back L-R Mr. Crabtree, (unknown man), Mr. Crossley, Mr. Taylor

Front L-R: Thomas Crossland B.Sc. (Principal Burnley Technical College 1909-20); Mrs. J. Sellers-Kay, Ald. James Sellers-Kay (Mayor of Burnley 1913-1915), Miss Burley.
James Sellers-Kay (1867-1933), member of the prominent local Kay family, and from his mother's side the Sellers family who had been mill owners, was a solicitor, Conservative local councillor and member of various committees including Education.

Miss Louisa Burley b 1885 , a dressmaker won prizes as a student at the Technical Institute for millinery. and was an amateur Soprano. She was one of the 3 secretaries of the students' committee who organised the students' "At Home" concert held at the Mechanics Institute in January 1913. Another such concert took place in January 1914, therefore after Sellers-Kay became Mayor. It is possible therefore that this is the occasion being commemorated in this photo and the location may be Burnley Mechanics?

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

22 x 16

Year of image

1914

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Locator

S531 (26)