Mayor Making
MAYOR MAKING Until 1949, Council Elections were held in November, and Yeovil elected the Mayor at the annual Town Council meeting on 9 November (except when the day was a Sunday and then it would be on the 10th.) The election of the Mayor was always something of an event and I have looked at a few of those Mayor makings over a century ago. On 9 November 1893, Councillor Sidney Watts was elected Mayor and at the close of…