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Handwritten draft script for talk given by Gladys (Dinah) Swindells on The Bradshaws of Marple Hall .
15 pages : Date unknown

25 sheets of handwritten research notes by Gladys (Dinah) Swindells on Marple Hall and tracing the Bradshaw-Isherwood families from 1252.
Dinah Swindells was Chairman of the Antiquarian Society. She lived in Manor House

Photocopies of 4 pages from Stockport Parish Registers 1593, 1602, showing the parish baptisms, marriages and burials and with additional notes on the Bradshaw family history.
Page 27 : 4 February 1593 Henry Bradshaw and Katherine Wynnington were…

Photocopies of pages 16,17 & 18 from G Swindells : History of Marple lst edition, describing the life of Judge John Bradshaw
Three pages of "Bradshaws" from unknown publication giving biography of John Bradshaw 1602 - 1659.
Small laminated piece…

Photocopied extract relating to Marple from G Ormerod : A history of the County Palatine and City of Cheshire (1882 Edition)
Pages 841 and 845 - 847.

Photocopy of four page article from Cheshire Life dated April 1969 : entitled "John Bradshaw - Regicide" by R K Atkinson who wrote of the 'Cheshireman who condemned his King to death'. With illustrations.

Photocopies of pages 39 - 74 from Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire : 'Original correspondence of the Lord President Bradshaw ; with other documents illustrating his personal history.
In the possession of A Rowson…

Photocopy of 13 page poem entitled "The Young Cavalier : A Legend of Marple Hall"
This tells the story in verse of a cavalier who was drowned in the River Goyt below Marple Hall.
From 'Lays and Legends of Cheshire' by John Leigh.
Publishers : E…

Two articles by Mark Whittaker, author of the Marple Website representing Marple in the Internet Community. Jan 2001 article on Marple Hall stained glass windows and their relocation to St Boniface's church at Bunbury. See also MAH/016/03.Jan 2002…

Four handwritten white cards, ten pages of typed transcripts and photocopies of newspaper articles from various publications. These cover local events involving the people and history of Marple and Marple Hall.
They include : An edited letter of…

Photocopied extract from Victoria County History of Cheshire 1979 : Vol 2 : Oxford University Press : pages 178 - 184 : with references to the Forestership of Marple and Wybersley and a map showing the boundary of Macclesfield Forest in 1619.

Extracts from The Cheshire Sheaf
1880 page 61 : a copy of a letter from President Bradshaw read to the House of Commons in 1659
1913 page 66 : a letter re Bunbury School, Cheshire which was mentioned in John Bradshaw's will
1925 page 60 : 'One…

Extracts :
Cheshire Notes & Queries : New Series : 9th Jan 1886 to 18th Dec 1886. pages 194 -196' Judge Bradshaw and Miltons visit to Cheshire'.
Also page 216 listing John Isherwood of Marple in 1815 as High Sheriff of Cheshire during the reign…

Three pages of handwritten text headed "Eulogy on Bradshaw' by John Milton.

Photocopy of an article from Cheshire Life, February 1950, entitled 'John Bradshaw of Marple' : by Ironside : with a photograph of the Hall.
Page 21 on A3 paper

Photocopy of a pencil drawing of Marple Hall by Frank Greenwood showing the rear of Marple Hall.
Also pages 138 & 139 with a brief description of Marple and the Hall's location and surroundings.
Extracted from 'Romantic Cheshire' by J Cuming…

Photocopies of two extracts from 'Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Vol 4'. Original held at Stockport Library.
Pages 225 - 226, 5th March 1886 held at Chetham's Library when a volume of tracts from the old Bradshaw…

Marple Township, extracts from a book by J P Earwaker dated 1877 . Pages 48 - 79 This gives the history of Marple Township from the Domesday Book, details of All Saints church with a list of its incumbents from the beginning of the 17th century, the…

Extract from Stockport : Ancient and Modern 1892 Vol 2 by Henry Heginbotham.
Printed by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivingston, London .
Pages 183 - 199 giving information on The Township of Marple, the Bradshaw Isherwoods, Marple Hall,…

Photocopied extract from Nooks & Corners of Lancashire & Cheshire by J Croston 1882 .
Chapter 11 : Marple Hall : The Bradshaws : Colonel Henry Bradshaw : The Story of Regicide.
28 pages describing the location of the Hall, how the Bradshaws came to…

Article from Manchester Weekly Times, 4th March 1892 : 'Marple : Sketches by our own artist'.
History and description of Marple and Marple Hall and the Bradshaw Isherwoods, with sketches of relevant views.
Duplicate copy also in MAH/016/02

Photocopy of six page article from Country Life magazine, pages 222-227, dated March 1919 entitled
"Marple Hall - The Seat of Mr John Henry Bradshaw Isherwood'.
It gives information on family history combined with description of interior…

Various original and photocopied newspaper cuttings reporting on the sale and the dispersal of antiques.
31 July/1 August 'Rain stops a sale, auctioneer's voice useless against thunder'
31 July 1929 'Sale at Marple Hall, dispersal of antiques'…

Notification from Auctioneers giving dates, authorisation to carry out sale.
Photocopy of newspaper article:-
Manchester Guardian, 3 July 1929 'Sanction is being sought for the sale of the antique furniture In Marple Hall'

Original and photocopied newspaper articles from 1929 reporting on the sale, the items sold and prices paid.
Manchester Guardian, 3 July 'Marple Hall and its antique furniture'
Manchester Guardian, 1 August 'High prices for tapestries'
North…