Gifts from children included a wallet, a cigarette case, a lighter, a cake and a china ornament. Staff and parents gave him an electric lawnmower, a recording of Handel's Messiah and a set of road maps of the British Isles.
This is the latest in our popular Overend's Morley series, which sees us dip into the archives of the celebrated photographer who covered the Morley area for many years.
If you can tell us anything else about the picture, or it jogs any other memories, contact us at the Observer and Advertiser on 0113 2523456 and we will be happy to share your observations with other readers.
Prints (10ins x 8ins) of this picture or any from Leslie Overend's archive, are available from Stephen White on 07715 770236, at £12.50 each.
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COPIES of the second book of Leslie Overend's photographs of Morley are still available.
The book, which contains 100 pictures from the 1970s that Leslie took for the Morley Observer, has been compiled by former Morley Observer reporter and assistant editor Stephen White, who has been supplying pictures for our popular Overend's Morley feature since 1993.
He said: "After inheriting Leslie's vast collection of negatives when he died in 1989, I finally decided to archive them properly.
"It then dawned on me that some 16 years had elapsed since my first Overend's Morley book (1960-1969) - and I was still being asked when I was going to put another one together."
Overend's Morley 1970-1979 - 100 Pictures of Morley People At Work And Play is available, priced £12.99, from the Morley Observer & Advertiser offices at 40 Queen Street, Morley.
Pre-ordered copies can be collected.
More details from the Morley Observer & Advertiser or at www.leslieoverend.com