HONITON MAYORS “Over the Years”

If anyone has any other pictures that could be included please contact the Town

Council office

Juanita Maxwell Phillips 1880-1966

Suffragette - Actress - Mayor of Honiton : 1920 - 1923 1925 1936 - 1940 and 1945

To be confirmed...

Mayor Cllr. Joanna Bull 1995-1997

After fifty years of male Mayors Cllr Joanna Bull stood for three terms 1995 to 1997 inclusive (can you spot ex Mayors Ray

Sharpe, Vivienne Ash, Pat Allen,Terry Glanvill and Peter Blake?)

Mayor Joanna Bull Facing her first Council

meeting (l to r: Joe Lake

(town crier), Cllr Ray Sharpe, Cllr Walt

Summers, Town Clerk Mike Smith, Joanna

Bull, Cllr Cllr.Pat Allen, Mrs.

Allen, Rev. Trevelyan, Cllr

Peter Blake, Cllr Vivienne

Ash

Mayor Cllr Joanna Bull with her

Macebearer/Town Crier Joe Lake 1995

Mayor Joanna Bull with RBL Veterans

1995

Duties of Mayor Joanna Bull Beating the Retreat Ceremony outside St.

Paul’s Church 1995 & VJ Day

Mayor Bull on Mayoral Duty At Honiton Hospital 1995

(new Town Crier Dave Retter) and 1996 (below)

Bill Cogger on extreme left

Signing of the Twinning Golden Book 1995

When Honiton, Mezidon Canon and Gronau originally joined together there was an official signing by the three Mayors of the

Twinning Charter

Mayor & Deputy Joanna Bull

with Pat Allen after signing

of the Golden Book in Gronau

Mayor Joanna Bull Mayor Joanna Bull at the naming of Honitonstrasse in

Gronau

Final Day as Mayor 1997

On last day of office in 1997 presentation by head boy

of the Community

College

Cllr. Sally Casson, Mayor 2004 & 2005

Mayor Sally Casson during Trafalgar Day 2005

Mayor Cllr Sally Casson

Trafalgar Despatch Day 2005

outside one of the many

public houses of Honiton.

Mayor Sally Casson with Sir John Cave on Trafalgar Despatch Day

2005

Preparing for Mayor Making of Cllr Vernon Whitlock 2006

Cllr Sally Casson assisting with “robing up”.

Mayor Cllr VernonWhitlock

Mayor Making Day 2006

Mayor Cllr Vernon Whitlock Hot Pennies Day 2006

with Town Crier Mr Dave Retter

Mayor Vernon Whitlock Charter Day 2007

Mayor Vernon Whitlock & Cllr Paul Diviani of EDDC

Walking the

Town on Charter Day

2007

Mayor Cllr Chris Tratt 2008

Mayor Making Ceremony

2008

Presentation for Cllr Chris Tratt from Cllr Vernon Whitlock 2008 on behalf of the Town Council

Past Mayors of Honiton with Mayor Chris Tratt (left to right)

Sally Casson(2004/05), Richard Howe (1998/99), Ruth Robson (2001/02), Trevor Hitchcock (1974), Chris Tratt (2008), Joanna Bull (1995/97),

Ray Sharpe (1994 & 2000), Pat Allen (1983/84), Arthur Dimond (1982), Bob Shepherd (1993) and Vernon Whitlock (2006/07)

Mr. Shepherd, Vernon Whitlock

Honiton Town Council 2007

Left to right: Cllrs Boom & Teare, Town Crier D Retter, Cllrs Gaughan Farnham, McNally, Fleming, Holloway, McGuire, Tirard, Casson, Taylor, Ash, Howard, Morgan

Front Row: Town Clerk Lyn Hargood, Cllrs Whitlock & Tratt

Cllr & Mrs. Whitlock & Cllr Tratt 2008 - prior to installation ceremony

Mayoral Chain from Cllr Whitlock to Cllr Tratt 2008

It’s off, it’s on...

Cllr Tratt’s formal picture 2008

Mayor & Mayoress Tratt with Deputy Mayor Vivienne Ash & Consort Roy plus the

Mayor’s Cadets.

Current and past Mayors Sally Casson, Richard Howe, Ruth Robson, Trevor Hitchcock, Chris Tratt,

Joanna Bull, Ray Sharpe, Pat Allen, Arthur Dimond, Bob Shepherd and Vernon Whitlock

Miss Vivienne Ash 2009

Mayor Miss Vivienne Ash

The Mayor, Consort, Deputy and Mrs. Fleming

with Mayor’s Cadets, Cadet Sgt Small and Cadet Turner

Mayor & Cadets 2009

Formal line up 2009 at St.Rita’s Cadet Turner, Cllr Fleming, Dave Retter, Mrs. Fleming,

Consort Roy Jefferies, Mayor Vivienne Ash, Cadet Sgt Small