Material relating to Beechwood Manor built by Mr Edward Ross Secretary of the ML&S railway :
A4 pages and cards with handwritten research material from Census / rate book records.
Brady & Sons Auctioneers advertisement for auction of contents and…
Selection of Estate Agents Details of Properties from MLHS archive from various periods which are shown on the Marple Website Virtual Tour.
Named properties :
Bowden House : Undated £75,000 : £118.00 : £265.00 with Misc Material
Clough Bridge…
Two different, undated sets of estate agents' details for The Grange, Strines Road. Note that Canon Drury, curate in charge of St Paul's from 1912 - 1918, lived there.
32 page booklet entitled "Mellor School Centenary", published to celebrate the centenary of the present buildings of Mellor Primary School. This gives a list of head teachers from 1890 to 1980, the history of the school with photographs, memories of…
Photocopy of photograph of Marple Junior Football Team 1907-1908.
Back row (left to right) : Walter Makin, Albert Wilde, Harry Bennet, Norman Waterhouse, Sam Brown, Dick Speakman
Front row : Bob Speakman, Joe Ingham, Harold Braddock, Harold…
Fifty one page Thesis enitled "Peoples War : A Case study of Stockport and the Home Front" by Joseph Henderson who attended the Archive in 2022 .
(printed in small text : copy of original thesis on USB stick in Audio / Visual drawer.
Email…
Handwritten & typed transcript from Brenda Reid in 2023 with memories of the Jubilee Methodist Church Brownies and Guides.
Brenda Reid was involved in the 2nd Compstall Brownies and Guides from its formation in 1973.
Miscellaneous material from Compstall Historical Society which closed in July 2023:
Minutes of Committee Meetings : 2013 - 2016
Constitution.
Advertising Material : Brochures, exhibitions and events.
Articles and typed information regarding…
Photocopy of original indenture and typed transcript for Thomas Hudson who was apprenticed as a Smith in 1801 and 1805 to Samuel Oldknow owned by the Holton Family who gave MLHS a copy. 2023
Typed research and extended family by Hilary Atkinson.
Email enquiry from Jean Cole re her Father and Grandparents who lived at The Crest.
Two photocopies of school photographs from the Willows Senior School along with a report card, correspondence relating to Stanley Butters from 1930's
Further…
Photocopy of handwritten letter by Joel Wainwright to Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, London, advising them of the winding up and disposal of property of the Marple Gas Company Limited.
Three photocopies of undated newspaper articles referring to the soldiers at Brabyns Hall
1. 'Wounded soldiers at Marple' describing the arrival of ten severely wounded soldiers
2. 'German guns close up trenches' - soldiers at Brabyns Hall were…
Three typed Pages of family research of the Potts family who ran the Bulls Head in Marple from 1885 - 1929.
Also schedule of letters written to Stanley Jack from Annie Pott : 232 in total
Stanley Jack's Military records.
A selection of 14 handwritten recipes which belonged to Alice Bridge, cook to the Isherwoods at Marple Hall. Two are written on Marple Hall headed notepaper, another on the back of an unused invoice belonging to her husband, Harry Bridge, sanitary…
Small Photograph Album belonging to Annie Potts of the Bulls Head Public House, Market Street, Marple showing b & w photographs of family, friends and Miss Primrose the horse, Stanley Jack at barracks in uniform.
Annie Potts married Stanley Jack …
Email correspondence with the Society enquiring on details of the date and architect of Brabyns House extension to the original property.
From the correspondent the extension was added sometime between 1917 and 1934 possibly during the ownership of…