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Original newspaper article with photograph from The Herald dated 15.10.1910. regarding donation of Recreation Ground and fountain by Mr Walter Bright Hodgkinson with details of opening ceremony and presentations.
Colourand black and white photos…

15 x A4 pages of typed research notes identifying records in the Carill Worsley Archives relating to Hollins Mill, Carvers, Walmsleys and other items relating to Marple generally, 1799-1936.

(a) Colour photographs of the Carver Warehouse taken 2014
(b) Three pages of handwritten research, author unknown.
(c) Page 224 from Manchester Fifty Years Ago', relating to the Carvers' Manchester concerns.
(d) Page 24 from 'Warehouses,…

Email correspondence between Hilary Atkinson and David Waterson regarding gravestone of Carver family.
Colour photograph of stone cross and grave shows ) inscription on one side “In loving remembrance of Harold Carver Barlow missing in France - -…

Information of Oswald Carver's military record during WW1 with the Royal Engineers and biography from www.Stockport 1914-1918.co.uk website.
Handwritten short biography of Captain Oswald Armitage Carver : author unknown.
Single handwritten page…

History of Carver family from the 15c to 20c. Covering their business and family pedigree. Contains photographs of family, houses and business material. Written by Mrs Joyce R Donald in 1970.

Photocopies of two newspaper cuttings:-
Jan 1970…

Reports from the Manchester Guardian.
March 10th 1910: Headline "Cotton Trade Dispute at Marple"
Hollins Mill, Marple was closed last night until further notice, and 650 operatives are thrown out of work
April 6th 1910: Headline "Maple Weavers…

British Transport Waterways, a 16th April 1959, Closure of Hollins Mill Arm Print an article on the canal arm from Pete Dixons Industral Heritage website,
http://www.pittdixon.go-plus.net/pfc-hollins-mill/pfc-hollins-mill.htm

15 typed pages of draft Chapters / Notes by Peter Bardsley.
First draft, later used by Ann Hearle for a book. Two hundred years of three families who owned The Hollins Mill Hall Estate, The Carvers, the Hodgkinsons and the Walmsleys.

Two pages…

(a) Two photocopied photographs showing Wellington Mill Hazel Grove taken over by Hollins Mill & Co.
(b) Newspaper photograph from The Guardian
11 Jan 1964. showing Wellington Mill on Fire.
(c) Various items of research material regarding…

Photocopies of posters and advertising material from various publications promoting Hollins Mill c1922.
An entry for the Hollins Mill in Skinner's Cotton Trade Directory 1931-32.
An entry for Carver and Co Carriers in the Williams' Leeds Directory…

Photocopy cutting: Unemployed operatives stopped production at Marple Mills, August 1842.
Photocopy cutting: Sale of Cotton Spinning Machinery and Effects from Hollins Mill, November 1857.
Photocopy cutting: Hollins Mill Mutual Improvement Society,…

Undated plan of War Memorial Park showing council offices, flowerbeds, tennis courts, bowling green and proposed putting green. c1922.
Undated plan of The Hollins showing farm yard, what was probably a walled garden (where the library is now) and…

Chronological list of important dates and events from 1712, when the Hollins estate was indentured to Joshua Higginbotham, until 1988, when the final remains of Hollins Mill were demolished. See full copy of the list above.

A number of photocopies of photographs relating to Hollins Mill. A few examples are included in this entry but to see all the society's images relating to Hollins Mill visit The Marple Website Virtual History Tour.

A small off-cut sample of a "Marple Sheet" produced at Hollins Mill with two loose embroidered tags, probably from other sheets. Also includes original paper packaging label and guarantee form, which includes the following text:

MARPLE SHEETS…

Miscellaneous material relating to Betty Carver & Field Marshal Montgomery :
1. Extract from book "The Making of a General" (22 pages).
2. Article "A Marple Connection" by Audrey Featherstone (3 pages). Full transcript on Marple website.
3.…

Newspaper cuttings, photocopies, handwritten and typed relating to the Carvers, family and business.
1870 : Warehouse in Portland St, Manchester (the property of Mr William Carver) being built for Messrs George Frazer, Son & Co, merchants
1872…

Census Records - Carvers -1851 - 1911
14 pages of photocopied census records of the Carver family at several locations and dates.

1. Photocopy of photograph of John and Thomas Carver date unknown.
2. House for Golden Wedding in 1904 with Christian names or relationship underneath
3. Extract File 3/14 from Marple Website showing Family group as above with description of Golden…

(a) Two A3 photocopied sheets comprising a schedule and map with key entitled “The Plan – referred to” signed at the bottom by Samuel Hodgkinson, Thomas Carver and John Carver but undated. This shows Hollins Mill with gasometer, chimney, boiler…

Photocopies of two colour photographs of Samuel & Adelaide Hodgkinson grave at All Saints Church, Marple.
The inscription reads:-
“In loving memory of Samuel Hodgkinson born June 4th 1823, died June 29th 1901, also Adelaide his wife born May 25th…

Handwritten notes on death of Samuel Hodgkinson.
Typed notice from Stockport Advertiser 1899 regarding the "Strange disappearance" of William Walmsley.
Funeral notice from Stockport Advertiser 1901 for Samuel Hodgkinson JP aged 79.
Notice of death…

Photocopies of 1841 - 1911 census records for Walmsley family
1851 census records for Hollins Fold : Mill Workers.
Marriage Cert for Samuel Hodgkinson and Adelaide Sharples 1849.
Death certificates for:-
John Braddock Walmsley at Hibbert Lane,…

Miscellaneous research notes from various sources :
1. Typed account from Stockport Express dated 1854 : An incident in which an attempt was made to pick the pocket of Mr W. Walmsley, cotton manufacturer of Marple.
2. Information on Mrs…