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Three pages of information from Wikipedia website relating to Mellor giving information on Geography, Industry, Politics, Industrial Past etc. downloaded 2005

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…

Three photocopied documents on A3 paper of Marple Tax Returns from Cheshire County Records Office listing owners name, occupant, address and estimated amount.
1. Land Tax Return for Marple : 1780
2. Land Tax Return for Marple : 1800
3. Land Tax…

Ring-bound 103 page academic thesis entitled "The Change in Function of the Parishes of Mellor and Ludworth during the Last Two Hundred Years" : Presented by Clare Garner. April 1966 for Manchester College of Education.
Containing maps,…

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

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

Photocopy of The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society Vol XVI Pages 264 - 293 giving an account of the Society's on 30th June 1900.
Account of Mr Wainwrights tour of the village of Marple illustration and photographs.

Typed list of taxables returned in 1693, under the act providing for a tax-levy of one penny per pound on real estate and six shillings for per head on Freemen for Marpool.
Source unknown.

Photocopy of handwritten document on A3 paper containing schedule of names starting with Hen: Bradshaw Esq showing tax liability signed by the Collectors Wm Heginbotham and Francis Wood. dated August 3rd 1714

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…

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

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…

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.

Original newspaper article from The Herald March llth 1893 and photocopied 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…

Photocopy of A3 poster : Extracts from the Rules established by Mrs Elizabeth Bridge for the Government of the Almswomen in the Bridge Almshouses of which Almshouses, during her life, Mrs Elizabeth Bridge is sole Governor and Visitor : Rules 12, 13…

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.

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.

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

Photocopy of plan and reference 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

One page document for Site of Special Scientific Interest notification under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 for Ludworth Intake.

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

Three page handwritten and five typed pages containing notes with the history of Mellor, Mellor Hall, Mellor Churchyard and Mellor Vicars.
Author unknown.

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.…

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…

Typed documents with various extracts from newspapers dating from 1840 with regard to Industries
These include sales notices, bankruptcy, Inquest reports, petty session notices and prosecutions of companies in the Cotton Spinner, Coal