Samuel Oldknow Material

Samuel Oldknow Material

Box File containing material relating to Samuel Oldknow life and business taken from various sources and dates. Indexed by Geoff Higgins 2019.

Articles

 – Oldknow and the building of the Peak Forest Canal

 – Oldknow and the Peak Forest Canal

 - Arkwright: Cotton King or Spin Doctor

 - Bleaching and Dyeing in a historical context

Typewritten Extracts and notes from the Oldknow Papers [Rylands Library]

Photocopied Extracts

     - Spinning Mills in Stockport [from Unwin]

      - Marple Church [from Heginbotham Stockport Ancient and Modern]

       -Lime Kilns [from Farey’s Derbyshire]

       -The Arkwrights and Oldknow [from Fitton, The Arkwrights]

      -part chapter from M. Hardman Classic Soil

Other Material

-Transcription of Oldknow’s obituary from the New Monthly Magazine 1828

-Typescript extracts from The History of the Foundling Hospital [re. apprentices]

-Photocopied newspaper article re. Oldknow and Marple

-extracts donated by Arthur Hulme on Oldknow topics

-photocopied extract relating to water powered mills in or near Marple

-Letters [copies and originals]- Oldknow research

            -from Frederick Arkwright 1922

            -from William Oldknow 1931

            -from Mabel Dunkerley 1971

Edited
SR Jan 2024

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