L30

SUPERINTENDENT A.E. TAYLOR      13 items

1898 - 1935

 

 

     Alfred Edmund Taylor was born in Yorkshire.  He joined the Shropshire Constabulary in 1893, and was promoted to Sergeant in 1898, Inspector in 1911, and Superintendent in 1916 when he moved to moved to Oswestry.  He founded Oswestry Boys’ Club in 1919, was awarded the MBE in 1928, retired in 1929, became a J.P. In 1931, and died in 1935, aged sixty-four.  The items listed below were purchased for Oswestry Heritage Centre from J. Dunn, Weybridge, in 1994, and were transferred to Oswestry Town Council Archives in June 2003.

 

 

L30/1

Scrapbook.

     Contains newscuttings and other items relating to the life and career of Superintendent Taylor.

 

1898 - 1935

L30/2

Photograph of Superintendent Taylor.

[c.1915?]

 

L30/3

Photograph of Superintendent Taylor and police colleagues.

 

 

[c.1915?]

L30/4

Photograph of group including Superintendent Taylor on Guildhall steps on Mayor’s Sunday.

 

[c.1915?]

 

L30/5

Photograph of Clive Bridgman, M.P., in the rear seat of his car, with Superintendent Taylor in the crowd behind.

 

 

[c.1915?]

L30/6

Postcard of Clive Bridgman, M.P.

     From F.S. to Miss A. Evans, Cranfid Rectory, Woburn Sands, Bedfordshire, giving election results as 5,011 votes for Mr. Bridgman, 4,508 for Mr. A.H. Bright.

 

20 Jan. 1906

L30/7

Photograph of Salvation Army Band, Oswestry.

[1920s?]

 

L30/8

Photograph of football team and club members.

[c.1920?]

 

L30/9, 10

Group photographs taken outside Oswestry Boys Club.

[c.1920]

 

L30/11

Photograph of Superintendent Taylor and four colleagues outside Oswestry Boys Club.

 

[c.1920]

 

L30/12

Copy postcard of The Cross.

[c.1910?]

 

L30/13

Copy postcard of Broom Hall Lane.

[c.1910?]