LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN A COUNTRY TOWN: EVERYDAY LIFE IN WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK, 1944 - The Wotton-under-Edge Petty Sessional Court in session. Left to right, the magistrates are: F E Frith, MC, JP; Alderman F Holloway, JP; K Harper JP; and Mrs Alston, JP. In the foreground in Mr Jotcham, Clerk to the Justices. The original caption states that the Court sits every three weeks and deals with offences committed in the local area, such as embezzlement, burglary and motoring offences, and can serve sentences of imprisonment up to 6 months

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