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Leeds schoolmistress Lily Cathcart, who was a pupil teacher at Quarry Mount School before attending Darlington Training College in 1905 and being awarded a string of certificates for her academic achievements.

Lily Cathcart (back row, second from right) with colleagues at Quarry Mount School in Leeds, where she was a student teacher.

Sara Merritt (far left), Leeds Museums and Galleries' audience development officer, shows the precious wedding dress to (L-R) Jennifer Slater, Christina Bromley, Emmeline Bromley and Alexander Bromley, the family of Lily Cathcart.

Sara Merritt (far left), Leeds Museums and Galleries' audience development officer, shows the precious wedding dress to (L-R) Jennifer Slater, Christina Bromley, Emmeline Bromley and Alexander Bromley, the family of Lily Cathcart.

Worn by Lily on her wedding day on September 10, 1910, the beautiful dress was filled with weights, designed to give it a fashionable “scroop” or rustling noise, but also making it fragile and requiring delicate handling by the city’s textile experts over the past five-and-a-half decades. Remarkably, it still even has several tiny pieces of confetti from the wedding day embedded in its delicate embroidery. A classic example of the elegant style of the time, the dress is made of cream silk satin with a silk chiffon pleated overlay. Its high stand collar is trimmed with lace, extremely fashionable for the period, and the front of the dress is heavily decorated with silver beads.