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Photocopies of eight pages downloaded from Richard Gilbert's website containing article on RMA Children Apprenticed to Cotton Weavers 1815 - 1821, including history of the Duke of York's Royal Military Schools and mentioning children being…

Two page typed document with general information on Boarding Schools in the Marple & Compstall area from 1830. These include
(a) Moult House, Marple Ridge by 1841 which moved to Bottoms Hall and then to Mellor Lodge
(b) The Lady's School, Marple…

Original undated copy of Mellor Lodge Ladies' Boarding School Prospectus where it is described as having large and lofty rooms, mpuntain air,, sheltered yet bracing and being within range of diversified scenery and salubrious air of the Peak…

Information relating to Moult House and Mellor Lodge boarding schools
(a) Newspaper cutting from Stockport Advertiser from 1824 stating that Mrs Hall will be opening a school for young ladies a short distance from Marple church
(b) census details…