Former mayors, 1974-1980

• Party: Labour
• Term of Office:1980 - 1981
• Mayoress:Councillor Mary Walsh
• Deputy Mayor:Councillor Jack Wood
• Asistant Mayor:Councillor Bernard Murray
• Charity Appeal:In aid of the handicapped, the young and the elderly.

Details:

• The first lady Mayor of Kirklees.
• Involved in local government since 1962.
• Member of the National Council for the Deaf.
• Worked with Paddock Youth Board.
• Had two children.
• A prominent campaigner for the rights of deaf people.
• Deputy Social Services chairman.
• Died in 1991.

• Party: Labour
• Term of Office:1979 - 1980
• Mayoress:Mrs Jean White
• Deputy Mayor:Councillor Marjorie Fisher
• Asistant Mayor:Councillor Colin Walkery
• Charity Appeal:In aid of a lifeboat that went on to serve the Newbiggin-by-the-Sea station in Northumberland (B 553 Kirklees, Atlantic 21 class) until 1998 and now serves the Isle of Wight as Sandown Rescue One based at Sandown

Details:

• Worked for twenty years at Case Tractors Ltd of Meltham as an engineer.
• Leading member of the Concert Secretaries' Federation and Club and the Institute Union for thirty five years.
• Governor of seven schools and colleges.
• Former President of Primrose Hill Cricket Club.
• President and Secretary of Taylor Hill Working Men's Club.
• Had three children.
• Died in 1986.

• Term of Office:1978 - 1979
• Mayoress:Mrs Edith Kenchington
• Deputy Mayor:Councillor Alice Kilburn
• Asistant Mayor:Councillor Mary Harwood

Details:

• Enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) in 1931.
• Served in the Second World War at Dunkirk and in the Indian Empire.
• Served in the North-West Frontier Province, the British Mandate for Palestine and in the Korean War, being involved in the Battle of the Hook.
• During this time he was awarded ten campaign medals and two Certificates of Merit.
• While serving as Quartermaster with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in Palestine in 1945, he was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
• Retired from the British Army in 1965.
• Elected to the County Borough of Huddersfield Council in 1971 and subsequently re-elected to Kirklees Metropolitan Council.
• Served as Chairman of the Development and Technical Services Committee (Estates and Properties) and on the Resources and Planning Committee (Economic Development).
• Also served on Development and Technical Services Committee (Public Works).
• Member of Huddersfield Town Centre Working Party.
• President of Huddersfield Pipe Band, Huddersfield and District Army Veteran's Association, Oakes and Quarmby Old people's Committee and the Dunkirk Veterans' Association.
• Died in 1998 aged eighty six.

• Party: Conservative
• Term of Office:1977 - 1978
• Deputy Mayor:Clive Cyril Kenchington, M.B.E., Major (Retired)
• Asistant Mayor:Councillor Elizabeth Coombes
• Charity Appeal: In aid of Multiple Sclerosis research, Saint John Ambulance, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Details:

• An engineer for thirty years.
• Elected to Spenborough Municipal Borough Council in 1967.
• Served as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group on Kirklees Metropolitan Council.
• Chairman of the Silver Jubilee Working Party.
• Member of the Yorkshire and Humberside Sports Council and the Yorkshire Tourist Board.
• Member of the Spenborough Flower Fund Committee.
• Served on the Council management Board, the Improvement and Development Committee and the Recreation and Amenities Committee.
• Governor of seven schools.
• Two children.
• Died in 2007.

• Party: Conservative
• Term of Office:1976 - 1977
• Mayoress: Mrs Grace Mason
• Deputy Mayor:Councillor Jack Brooke
• Asistant Mayor:Councillor Alice Kilburn
• Charity Appeal: In aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and cancer research.

Details:

• Served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
• Involved in the textile trade since 1946.
• Two children.
• Twenty two years as a councillor.
• Former chairman of Kirkburton Urban District Council.
• Elected to the West Riding County Council.
• Served on the West Yorkshire Police Authority.
• Member of the Upper Agbrigg Divisional Education Directorate.
• President of Huddersfield East Conservative Association.
• Governor of Huddersfield Polytechnic (now the University of Huddersfield).
• Director of Kirklees Development Community.
• Died in 1983.

• Party: Labour
• Term of Office:1975 - 1976
• Mayoress: Mrs Enid Gregory
  
• Deputy Mayor:Councillor Frank Allatt, J.P.
• Asistant Mayor:Councillor Marjorie Fisher

Details:

• Born in Essex in 1916.
• Served as Area Officer for the North - East Yorkshire section of the National Union of Public Employees having joined in 1946.
• Sat on Kirkburton and Denby Dale Urban District Councils.
• A founding member of Kirklees Metropolitan Council.
• He had three children.
• Died at the age of eighty six in 2002.

• Party: Labour
• Term of Office:1974 - 1975
• Deputy Mayor:Councillor Alfred Ramsden
• Asistant Mayor:Councillor William Gregory

Details:

• Worked for British Railways for 48 years.
• Started as a councillor on Holme Valley Urban District Council in 1936.
• Sat on a number of district councils.
• Appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1967 for services to local government.
• Appointed a Justice of the Peace and served as chairman of the West Riding Bench in Huddersfield.
• Honoured with the freedom of the County Borough of Huddersfield in 1973.
• One of the last Alderman of the County Borough of Huddersfield before the position was abolished under the Local Government Act, 1972.
• Died in June 1988