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Twelve punch pockets containing small press cuttings arranged chronologicallyand relating to auction / land sales in Mellor/Marple from 1750s to 1940s

Five punches pockets containing pages of cut and paste material & typed small newspaper cuttings/headlines of miscellaneous reports of events/auction notices / meetings/BMD local news effecting the Marple / Mellor population.
In chronological order…

22 typed pages entitled "Water Supply & Public Health in Mellor from 1873" (information taken from various Council Minute & Letter Books - including those of Mellor Parish Council) Information ends with the minutes of 7th March 1834.
Author…

Eight printed pages with information on the Poor Law / Jurors / Poor Law Removals in Mellor & Ludworth. "Brief Observations on Mellor & Hayfield" from 1770 by John Smith from Matlock

Computer printout of BMD records giving information on the population of Marple in 1630 (7 pages ) and family details for 1584 - 1631 (seventeen double sided pages) taken from Church Records.

Photocopy of single page on card of the 1794 Land Tax Assessment for the Township of Marple.

Photocopies of two A3 pages of the orginal handwritten ledger for Land Tax Assessments for Cheshire, Stockport Division for the Township of Marple dated 1780

Photocopies of 8 pages from the original handwritten ledger for the Land Tax Assessments for the year 1799 in the County of Chester for the Township of Marple

Three photocopied pages from Pigots Directory 1836 giving details of the Population of Marple & Mellor from that year.
Also residents in alphabetical order, occupations and address.

Numerous newspaper cuttings, headlines on miscellaneous topics in and around Marple /Mellor area.
Examples 1967 : Original and photocopy of front page of the North Cheshire Herald on Flood at Moor End, Mellor
2016 : Mill Brow Recreation Park…

Newspaper reports on wells / culverts found around the Marple Area:
a. Two articles from Stockport Messenger and High Peak Echo dated 1992 : Well found in garden in Marple
b. Date unknown Editors letter re Well Cottage, Church Street, Marple.
c.…

Two handwritten pages on the industrialisation of Mellor from the first mill in 1790 by Hugh Fletcher

Photocopy of newspaper report from unknown publication dated 1908? with 6 paragraphs of miscellaneous reports from Marple.
First report of Marple Tech Institute, second, third and four reporting on scarlet and typhoid outbreaks in Marple and its…

Photocopy of two pages taken from the Marple Parish Magazine from 1992 & 1993 showing an report from the Morning Post in London regarding the trial of two Marple men in 1824 , their crimes and sentences.
a. John Ingham : Breaking into Mr Gees house…

Four page article entitled "The Marple Mixture" from Cheshire Life July 1980 written by Avril White who "sifts the village ingredients", Black and white photographs of Marple and locals

Single Page photocopy of an extract (query Pevsner?) under the heading "Mellor" (pages 478 & 479).
Information on the architecture and history of St Thomas's n Church Road, Hearse House, Methodist Church (former), Longhurst Lane, Mellor Hall and…

Photocopy of a single page with a paragraph under heading "Marple" from Transaction of Lancashire s & Cheshire Antiquarian Society 1965 - 6 giving information on the Corn Mill in Marple on the River Goyt.

Three photocopied pages from Pigot & Co.'s Directory for 1834 covering the Marple Area.
Pages 37,38 and 39

Four pages of typed transcripts taken from "Seen from the Ridge" by the Observer a regular piece from the North Cheshire Herald from 1941.
Topics by"The Observer" covered, Holiday Haunts for Sale and Still helping blitz victims.
Four photocopies of…

Cuttings on card taken from an article from Cheshire Life November 1972 showing photographs and brief text :
1. Dr W F Beech, Secretary of the Ratepayers Association.
2. Bob Austin, local store owner.
3. Horse riding through Tarden
4. Hugh…

Handwritten information taken from Mellor Oddfellows Books listing members in 1832,36, resolutions, occupations of member and miscellaneous notes dating from 1832 to 1868 accompanied by typed transcript.

Two typed transcript of a letter to Francis Bradshaw a Justice of the Peace in Derby complaining about the foul practice of Francis Stafford by unlawful entry into Bothoms, dated 24th February 1631
Source and author of original transcript unknown

Photocopies of miscellaneous newspaper articles relating to Marple and Mellor from Manchester Mercury :
1. 1808 : Samuel Oldknows bay horse has strayed.
2. 1811 : Meeting at Bridgwater Arms to consider the propriety of making a Canal from Peak…

Single page advertising "Revealing Oldknow's Legacy" an oral history projects from 2017 organised by Canal & River Trust and Mellor Archaeology asking for memories to build an oral history of three of Marple's historic sites. Also : A4 Binder…

Two pages of downloaded information from the 1734 Poll for Glossop Parish with details of Mellor residents.
Downloaded 2007 from Rootsweb.com