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Illuminated certificate of thanks for the gift of upwards of 75 acres of Loxley Common and Wadsley Common (to be known as Loxley Chase)

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Illuminated certificate of thanks for the gift of upwards of 75 acres of Loxley Common and Wadsley Common (to be known as Loxley Chase)
Sheffield_Loxley
1913/09/10
1900-1919

Original at Sheffield City Archives: X905/1.

Full title: Illuminated certificate of thanks from Sheffield City Council to Miss Fanny Phillips, Miss Mary Payne Phillips and Mrs Henrietta Harrison for their gift of upwards of 75 acres of Loxley Common and Wadsley Common (to be known as Loxley Chase).

Transcription:

City of Sheffield

At a meeting of the Council of the said city held at the Town Hall, Sheffield, on Wednesday the 10th day of September 1913

It was unanimously resolved

That this Council begs to tender its thanks to

Miss Fanny Phillips

Miss Mary Payne Phillips, and

Mrs Henrietta Harrison

For the gift of upwards of 75 acres of rocky heathy moorland of natural beauty, situate at Loxley Common and Wadsley Common in the confines of the City of Sheffield, to be hereafter known as Loxley Chase.

For the perpetual use of the public for the purposes of exercise or recreation, and to express its appreciation of the public spirit of the donors in making such a gift, which will be to the delight and advantage for all time of the inhabitants of the City of Sheffield, and that a copy of this resolution under the Corporate Common Seal be engrossed on vellum and presented to each of the donors.

Signed:

Samuel Osborn, Lord Mayor

William E. Hart, Town Clerk.

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