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45 page booklet published by Stockport Metropolitain Borough Council in March 2006 after public consultations, covering in 7 Chapters with photographs and maps all relevant issues including: background, history of area, landscape, historic buildings,…

Single photocopy document headed Parish, Manor and Townships with scale showing Ludworth and Mellor Chapelry.
Page 34 from booklet entitled Glossop Dale, Manor and Borough published by the Glossop and District Historical Society 1973.
Undated

Photocopy of a postcard dated 1912 from the Valintine range showing concertinaed local views of Marple Bridge.
J Townsend family have the original

Printed extract giving brief history of the Northumberland Arms in Marple Bridge and the aims of local residents to convert to Community Pub "The Thumb" it aims and how to buy shares and get involve.
Also interior colour photographs of the premises…

Photographs of posters outside the Northumberland Arms after it closure when it was put up for sale as a "Prominent Development Opportunity"
Campaign to save the Pub to become an Assets of Community Value. 2017
Two newspaper cuttings :
a. "Group…

Typed pages giving information on Marple Bridge after 1850 after a large influx of Irish Born people arriving with the building of the railway with conculsion.
Typed information on the Lally family

Typed material with supporting map, photographs and census records entitled "A Few Facts taken from The Ludworth Censuses 1841-1901" by Ruth Hargreaves 2007.
18 pages of information from the census from 1841 including notable family, public houses…

Magazine Articles relating to Marple Bridge :1. Photocopy : Village Life : 1998 : Bridge Over Untroubled Water2. Cheshire Life : 2003 : Marple Bridge & Mellor : Christmas Cards3. Cheshire Life : 2007 : Logging on to the Future4. Cheshire Life :…

Numerous newspaper cutting relating to Town Street collapse at Marple Bridge and its reconstruction dating from December 1991 reporting the collapse to reopening 12 months later and the effect on the local community and businesses.

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Correspondence from Stockport Borough Council 2005, map Leaflet and information on extending the Marple Bridge Conservation Area