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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…

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

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

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

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

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.

Original copy of the booklet entitled "The Historic Landscapes of Mellor" by Ron Weston, 2005.
Resulting from survey undertaken for Mellor Archaeological Trust to help set the hill-fort in context of the Landscape.
Booklet gives information from…

Two booklet examples of Guides to Marple :
1. 1984 Marple & District Chamber of Trade Official Guide, published by Marple & District Chamber of Trade.
2. Undated "Visit Marple" a vibrant, historic canal town, produced by Marple Business Forum.
3.…

Two photocopies of booklets entitled
1. Marple & Mellor as Places of Residence
2. Marple as a place of Residence (with handwritten corrections)
Undated but both promoting Ley Hay Estate which was being laid out when booklet was published along…

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…

Typed page with Chronology of area around Mellor.
Dates from 1206 with the granting of Marple and Wybersley to Robert of Stockport. to 1964 Mellor Police Station closing.

Correspondence from Debbie Barwell, an "A" level student wanting information of The Hollins, Marple for a possible Millennium project they have planned. Reply from Peter Bardsley, Secretary of Marple Local History Society.

Documents relating to the Marple Recreation Ground bequest presented by Mr & Mrs Hodgkinson :
1. Photocopy of Transcript of Herald Newspaper report on 15th October 1910 with photograph of officials and report of the event. 4 pages
2. Photocopy of…

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.

Photocopy of chapter 4 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 called Robin Hood's.

Photocopies of pages 86-89 from Joseph Tilley's book The Old Halls of Derbyshire covering Mellor Hall, Whitehough and Bradshaw Halls.

3 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

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

Two extracts from E.P.N.S. for Derbyshire and Cheshire covering Ludworth and Marple giving information descriptions of Local places of interest.

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

Flyer titled "Mellor against Masts" informing and encouraging local residents to write a letter of objection to Mellor Sports club for the planning application for a 3g mobile phone mast that is planned to be erected on one of the flood lights.

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

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,…

Miscellaneous pages relating to Robin Hood's Picking Rods from several sources and newspaper cuttings :
a. Illustration of Picking "Pegs" extracted from Wainwrights Memories of Marple.
b. Text & Diagram from Journal of the Derbyshire…