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Photocopy of downloaded article from The Guardian October 12 1963, headed Northern News in Brief, sub headed "Memories .....on tape", containing a paragraph giving details of exhibition being held at Manor House of tape recorded reminiscences by…

Pages downloaded in 2008 from the Modern Antiquarian website with information on :
1. Brown Low, (SJ988909) : Round Barrow
2. Mellor Hilltop (SJ982889) : Hillfort
3. Chisworth (SK007909) : Cup Marked Stone

Five pages from Encyclopedia : The Free dictionary website with information on Ancient History of Mellor. Covering myths & legends, origin of name, archaeological timeline, Roman occupation.
Downloaded 2008.

One page document for Site of Special Scientific Interest notification under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 for Ludworth Intake.
This was found to be a meltwater channel about 400m long, an exceptional and nationally important …

Three extracts from E.P.N.S. for Derbyshire and Cheshire in each case giving details of the changes in place and field names with references.
(a) Marple
(b) Ludworth
(c) Mellor

Typed page with chronology of area around Mellor.
Dates from 1206 with the granting of Marple and Wybersley to Robert of Stockport. Merpel to 1964 when Mellor Police Station on Longhurst Lane closed.

Card taken from The Beyer-Peacock Quarterley Review Page 40 giving information on eighth camping season at Camp Farm, Carrington Barn, Marple activities and benefits for the apprentices using this facility. Photograph on reverse showing Carrington…

Photocopy from The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society Vol XVI pages 264-273 giving an account of the Society on 30th June 1900.

Photocopy (pages 290-293) of account of the 548th meeting of the Society when they were met at the station…

Email sent from Alan Parkinson in Australia with recollections and research he has carried out of his father Robert Parkinson a wartime policeman at the Marple Police Station with regard to German refugees who were housed at Brentwood, Church Lane,…

Typed transcript (fifteen pages) of an address read by C Pickford of Town's Cliff, Mellor at the Church of England's Mens Society on February 2nd 1931.
Photocopies of 1871, 1891 and 1901 censuses for the Pickford Family.

Email correspondence from Peter Clark giving information of a newspaper report on the need for a police station at Marple which will be erected at a cost of upwards of £1,000, dated 1887.

Photocopy of photograph of PC Terry Lomax outside Marple…

Four pages of typed information collected at Church Commissioners : July 16th 1975.
Correspondence between Matthew Olerenshaw, Vicar of Mellor and the Church Commissioners

Photocopy of typed document of Bibliography of the Village of Mellor from May 1978. Also typed list of Deeds relating to Mellor held at Derby.

Typed sheets from Peter Bardsley regarding the redevelopment of Marple Town 1960's and amended plan 1970's.
Also Marple & Mellor Millennia 2000 Summer Stroll : Local History Walk with Peter Bardsley and Margaret

Photocopy over six pages of plan of Estates in Mellor in the Parish of Glossop in the County of Derby belonging to the Executors of the late Mr Thomas Ferns 1854, giving details of Lots 1 to 4 which included dwelling house, outbuildings, eight other…

Photocopy of Notice entitled "Remember the Sabbath to keep it Holy" from Mellor Jollification Committee. Undated

Leaflet for Mellor Heritage Exhibition in The Parish Hall, Mellor September 1985, with advertisements for local businesses and Programme for the Mellor Fesitval on 15th September 1985.
Seven typed pages from the "Mellor Heritage" Committee Meetings…

Leaflet from Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council giving history, information and map on Conservation Area Designation and Guidelines for Mellor-Moorend Conservation Area designated April 1978.
North Cheshire Herald article 6 Apr 1978 “Villages…

Original newspaper article and photocopy from The Herald March 11th 1893 and of W Bradley's address at the meeting of the Congregational Mutual Improvement Society 1893 entitled "How to Improve Marple"
Letter from Dora Wigg in Cheltenham who is W…

Three photocopied pages with tables on the population and textile occupations of Mellor extracted from 'The Decline of Mellor in the 19th century' by Ann Ashworth

Photocopy of chapter VI from 'Legends of Longdendale' by T Middleton entitled " Robin Hood's Visit to Longdendale".
Giving an account of why the stones on Ludworth Moor are named as being Robin Hood's.
Also pages 304-307 from The Journal of the…

Miscellaneous pages relating to Robin Hood's Picking Rods (grid ref SK006909) from several sources and newspaper cuttings :
a. Illustration of Picking "Pegs" extracted from Wainwright's 'Memories of Marple'.
b. Text & diagram from 'Journal of the…

Three punched pockets containing numerous miscellaneous newspaper cuttings from various sources dating from 1827. (some are dated articles and others are undated).
Photocopies of cuttings, original newspaper articles and typed transcripts

Nine magazine articles relating to Marple and Mellor :
1. May 1966 Christopher Moore finds Marple full of Vitality and Imagination...not just an Address : article & photos (pp 62-69)
2. July 1972 Cheshire Life : Marple - Vital & Imaginative :…

Two photocopies of booklets entitled
1. Marple & Mellor as Places of Residence : 24 pages with handwritten corrections.
2. Marple as a place of Residence
Both are undated but one is a revised version of the other and both promote Ley Hay Estate…