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A4 tinted hand drawn cartoon novelty street map "Drawn by Mike" highlighting the center of Marple with decorative lozenge stating "Map of Marple as it seemed to be 1956 - 7" with properties of friends and relatives highlighted with scrolls.
Mike…

Manchester Evening News article from June 1960 headed "Our village has been chopped into tiny little scraps" by Noel Duke who looks back on a simple life with illustration showing Church Lane & Jolly Sailor in Marple.

Email from Colin Stegeman 2001 giving information on the German Prisoners of World War Two working in the area when he was a child.

Eighteen typed pages with memories of living in Mellor by Tom Oldham giving history, information on locations, shops and people around the 1920's

Hardback journal of handwritten notes with photographs on shooting outings in the local area which was started in 1932 by Mr W Watkin. This contains photographs of his guns, outside Compstall Hall and at Biggin.
Photocopy of newspaper obituary dated…

Typed account from Hilda Howard (nee Atkinson) of her time working at the T.B. Hospital on Dale Road. Marple and then at Hollins Mill and later when that closed, at Goyt Mill.

Photocopy of newspaper article from The Reporter dated March 14th 1925 under the heading "The Hibberts of Marple Bridge, Interesting Reminiscences" by Miss Florence Hibbert of her great grandfather Peter Hibbert and other family members and their…

Single page typed document by Tom Oldham on the Potts Family taken from letter from Kathleen Potts.
Typed transcript.
Newspaper cutting and two typed reports relating to the Pott family.

Ring bound typed pages by Tom Oldham as a follow on to the "Youthful Days in Mellor", dwelling on his later days at school, college and working career in the 1930's and retirement in Mellor.

Go to Hyperlink below for four articles from MLHS…

Typed 13 paged transcript of a talk given by Mrs Percy Woodhead on Marple/Mellor on the development of Marple, families and industry. Undated

26 typed transcriptions of varying lengths from cassette recordings. These memories were recorded, organised and presided over by Mrs Gladys Swindells, then Chairman of Marple Antiquarian Society (now Marple Local History Society). The original…

Two typed letters from Peter Broadhurst to Bill Hatton with memories of when he stayed with his grandparents who lived at Waterside in Marple

Typed reminiscences of Mrs Vera Linihan in 2013 when she was 87 with happy memories as an evacuee at Woodville Hall in 1939 staying with Mrs Barlow and staff

Typed three page document entitled "What it was like to be a Child Living in Moor End, Mellor during the Second World War" by Annabel Cloughley, September 2004.
Sub heading informs "This information gained from Grace who lived in Moor End during the…

Handwritten account with transcript of the corn mill built in 1691 and other locations in Marple Bridge : author/date unknown.