Marple Local History Society

Marple, Marple Bridge, Mellor, Compstall, Strines, Hawk Green, Rose Hill, High Lane.

An alphabetical list of the miscellaneous items held in the Society's Archive.
  • All Saints Graveyard Index and Nathaniel Isherwood (1765)
  • Cobden Edge Deeds
  • Copies of last will and testaments of Thomas Bradshaw (1791)
  • Family tree of the Bradshaw Isherwoods
  • Glass slides in boxes
  • Henry Bradshaw Isherwood (1801)
  • In Memoriam cards
  • Jolly Sailor and Bowling Green pubs
  • Linnet Clough Roads Court Case papers
  • Listed buildings index
  • Ludworth Hearth Tax Return 1662-3
  • Maps of Mill Brow 1836 1857 1920
  • Marple Evening Townswomen’s Guild scrapbooks.
  • Mary Ann Isherwood (1794)
  • Medical and Health
  • Mellor and Ludworth wills and inventories
  • Mellor housing files
  • Mellor housing survey photos
  • Memorial Park Opening Pageant 1922 - newspaper cuttings and     programmes
  • Model of Dove Bank Mill
  • Newspaper cuttings and business papers re: Samuel Oldknow
  • Old newspapers 1750-1850
  • Old O.S. Map Marple 1896
  • Paintings
  • Photographs (including aerial photos)
  • Pubs & Eating places
  • Queen Ann Bounty and Women Unionists papers
  • Redevelopment Iron Bridge Restoration documents
  • Samuel Oldknow papers.
  • Strines Print Works
  • Transcription of rental of township of Marple (1650
  • Two original notices of Marple Winter and Spring Fairs (includes settling of lime ashes accounts 1797)