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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.
Colour/ black and white photos of Fountain…

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.

Colour Photographs of Carvers Warehouse taken 2014
Three pages of Handwritten research, author unknown.
Page 224 from Manchester Fifty Years ago, relating to Carvers Manchester concerns.
Page 24 from Warehouses, Wharves and Transport…

Email correspondence between Hilary Atkinson and David Waterson regarding Gravestone of Carver Family. Coloured Photograph of Stone cross enclosed show Harold Carver Barlow's name on one side.
Also colour photograph of Frank Barlow's gravestone at…

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.

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…

Two photocopy photographs showing Wellington Mill Hazel Grove taken over by Hollins Mill & Co.
Newspaper photograph from The Guardian 11.1.1964. showing Wellington Mill on Fire.
Various research material regarding Wellington Mill & Poise House.

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…

Original cutting: North Cheshire Herald, 6 February 1920, 45 Years' service as Manager and Director, Presentations to Mr. and Mrs W. B. Hodgkinson.
Photocopy cutting: Reporter, 7 February 1920, Gift to Marple Work-People, W. B. Hodgkinson's Great…

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 include 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 realting to Betty Carver & Field Marshal Montgomery :
Extract from "The Making of a General" book.
Audrey Featherstone article The Marple Connection, full transcript on Marple website.
Newspaper article dated 1994 from…

North Cheshire Herald 1883 : Marriage of Miss Carver.
The Herald 1911 : Death of Mr Thomas Carver.
The Reporter 1970 : Publication of Joyce Donald's book.
North Cheshire Herald : Mrs Mary Barlow death(eldest daughter of Thomas Carver)
Pages of…

14 pages of photocopied census records of the Carver Family at several locations and dates.

Photocopy of photograph showing Thomas & Hannah with family members on steps of Hollins House for Golden Wedding in 1904 with names underneath
Photocopy of photograph of John and Thomas Carver date unknown.
Extract 3/14 from Marple Website showing…

a. A3 photocopy of Schedule and Map called the Plan (referred to) showing Hollins Mill with Gasometer and assorted industrial building supporting Mill. Also Hollins House with Stables, gardens and surrounding parkland. Boundaries and named…

Photocopies of two colour photographs of Samuel & Adelaide Hodgkinson grave at All Saints Church.
Two page Email detailing the burial records of the Hodgkinson and Walmsleys family from All Saints Burial Records.

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 & Adelaide 1849.
Death certificates for John Braddock Walmsley 1857
Charles Edward 1860, Margaret Ann…

Miscellaneous Research Notes from various sources :
1. Typed account from Stockport Express dated 1854 : Mr Walmsley attempted pick pocket incident.
2. Information on Mrs Woodiwiss Mortgager.to the Carvers & Walmsley families.
3. Email with…