Flowers for Leeds Competition presentation of first prize in Class 17 of the Municipal Estates Section

1951. Image shows the Chairman of the Flowers for Leeds Competition, 1951, Mr. Robert Barr, presenting 1st prize to the winner of Class 17 of the Municipal Estates section, Mr. H.S. Newborn. This class was open to people who lived on the pre-fab housing estates that were built after the war on slum-cleared sites. Mr. Newborn was awarded a special certificate and ?3 for his garden at number 1 Whitfield Street, Low Road. Mr. G.H. Blane, of 21 St. Mark's Street, Woodhouse, was awarded a 2nd prize. The Yorkshire Evening Post met the costs of the admin and organisation for the competition and funded the certificate and prize money to the value of ?125.