Assuming mill is required, and brow is required, the following 35 results were found.
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Grounds of Peak Forest, during the Medieval era; Ludworth Corn Mill serving the needs of the scattered farms in the area. Mill Brow, by the Ludworth corn Mill A small crowd of 27 forgo the chance of catching the 18,615th episode of the Archers, to hear...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Trips 2017 - 2018
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sunny evening, about 20 of us set out from the top of Townscliffe Rd/Clement Road in Mellor, heading across the fields to Mill Brow, led by Frank Pleszak. At the head of the road was Townscliffe Farm, built in 1790 with earlier sections. William Jowett,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mark Whittaker
- Category: Trips 2022-2023
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in boundary reorganisations in 1936. Very little is known about early Ludworth, except that there was a corn mill at Mill Brow in the 1200s. The local people kept adding to their land by “assarting” - that is making new fields by felling trees, clearing...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Places
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Mrs Joseph Swindells Mrs. Joseph Swindells, who died in 1965 at the age of 86, was Miss Fanny Thornley when she taught at Compstall School. She was a native of Compstall and lived in the district all her life. Her family were closely connected with...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Compstall
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mills. It was owned for many years by the Yarwood family, related to Mike Yarwood, the comedian. Higher up the stream in Mill Brow, were Clough Mill, Primrose Mill, Ludworth Corn Mill, Holly Vale Mills, and finally Holly Head Bleach Works, which is now...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Trips 2021-2022
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The original of this directory, which may be seen by clicking Davenport Station Archives had phone numbers for all the Stockport area, this has been filleted to obtain the pickings for Marple,and surrounding area, this may be seen below, the pdf of the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Reference
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west England. In the process she demonstrated how Marple and Mellor fitted into that history. An ambitious tour de force! Mill Brow An amazing postcard of Mill Brow with a faded ghostly image showing how it got its name. Marple and Mellor - A textile...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Meetings 2017 - 2018
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In February we shall escape the wilds the Atlantic Ocean and St. Kilda, and travel to the green fields and streams, of Mill Brow, where, by the nineteenth century, four cotton mills graced the valley The area which had been part of the royal hunting...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Meetings 2013 - 2014
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1804. It was powered by a waterwheel, turned by the fast-flowing Mill Brook which rises on the moors above the hamlet of Mill Brow, ¾ mile above Marple Bridge. This small stream powered at least five water mills, of various purposes, along its banks at...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Our Local Heritage
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The ‘mystery picture’ in the MLHS August newsletter was an aerial view of the Fiveways Pub on the corner of the A523 Macclesfield Road and Dean Lane in the Norbury area of Hazel Grove. Picture 1 The Fiveways The pub was built in the late 1930s, the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Our Local Heritage
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just as I was getting ready the taxi come for me, course I'd neither washed nor shaved so I sent him for me brother at Mill Brow. By the time he got back I was ready and I had to go back again at half past five to look to me ponies, lock all up and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Compstall
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Things ain’t what they used to be” is a refrain we often hear but were they so good in the old days? These two letters describing Marple Bridge and Mellor in the 1920s and 1930s give a picture of life as it was. Bill Hughes and Marion Woods,were both...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: People
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Access to Brabynshttps://marplelocalhistorysociety.org.uk/our-local-heritage/access-to-brabyns.html
Most members of MLHS will be familiar with Brabyns Park with its recreational meadows, playing fields, riverside and woodland walks, car park (plus a new additional one nearer the river), children’s playground, pond and pets cemetery. Many will have...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Our Local Heritage
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Brabyns Brow marks an obvious division in the Marple flight between the lower eight and upper eight locks. It is approximately halfway, not just in the number of locks but also in the distance covered. Another distinction is that this is the point at...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Our Local Heritage
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This story is a result of researching the history of William Henry Chadwick in response to a request from Christopher White, from Romiley, who now lives in France. William Henry was his gt gt gt grandfather. William (not Henry then) was born in 1829,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: People
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Marple Smithfield https://marplelocalhistorysociety.org.uk/our-local-heritage/marple-smithfield.html
In the last three hundred years Marple has changed from a rural community to an industrial neighbourhood and now to a post-industrial commuter area. However, although gradual, these changes have not been mutually exclusive - there were early signs of...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Our Local Heritage
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The late Peter Bardsley (1929-2010) scoured the 19th and early 20th centuries Stockport Advertisers, and other local papers, in the Stockport Heritage Library for these stories of the Marple past. Peter was a stalwart of several organisations in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: People
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in his cap, saturating the lining with a yellow mess, and his mother wasn’t happy with the gift. Mellor Church from the Mill Brow side, a rare view We seemed to get snow every winter, often really big falls such as these. We had a good toboggan run down...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Mellor
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A human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, “I was here!” but of course, with no written language, this person just made his Mark which the cave painters did more...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: People
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My father’s chief leisure occupations were golf and gardening. He made a beautiful garden of our plot at the front of the cottage with immaculate lawn and beds of rose bushes. We had no back garden and there was no space for vegetables. Consequently,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Martin Cruickshank
- Category: Mellor
