Marple & Mellor History : Folder 1

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Title

Marple & Mellor History : Folder 1

Subject

Marple and Mellor.

Description

Folder containing items relating to Marple & Mellor History.

Creator

Data Protection Checked/Update : JC 2021

Identifier

MAM/01

Collection Items

Notes on Mellor Hall, Church, Churchyard and Vicars
1. Five typed pages containing sections on Mellor Hall, Mellor church, the font, the pulpit, the churchyard, some Mellor vicars and Methodism in Mellor.
2. Three handwritten pages taking a tour of the mills in Mellor from Cataract Bridge on…

Extract from Joseph Tilley's "The Old Halls of Derbyshire"
Photocopies of pages 86-89 from Joseph Tilley's book "The Old Halls of Derbyshire" covering Whitehough and Bradshaw Halls and two pages showing the coats of arms of these two halls and their buildings and of Mellor Hall.

Thesis : The Change in Function of Parishes of Mellor and Ludworth during the last 200 years : Clare Garner : 1966
Ring-bound 103 page academic thesis entitled "The Change in Function of the Parishes of Mellor and Ludworth during the Last Two Hundred Years" : Presented by Clare Garner. April 1966 for Manchester College of Education.
Containing maps,…

Wikipedia Pages for Mellor : 2005
Three pages of information from Wikipedia website relating to Mellor giving information on Geography, Industry, Politics, Industrial Past etc. downloaded 2005

Map of the Township of Mellor
Hand drawn map of the Township of Mellor, showing prominent houses / roads and rivers from Robin Hood's Picking Roads in the north to Windybottom and The Banks in the south, Marple Bridge in the west to Jordan Wall Nook in the east.
Date/artist…

Booklet : "The Historic Landscapes of Mellor" : Ron Weston
Original copy of the booklet entitled "The Historic Landscapes of Mellor" by Ron Weston, 2005.
Resulting from survey undertaken for Mellor Archaeological Trust to help set the hill-fort in context of the landscape.
Booklet gives information from…

Lea Hall, drawing by J Wainwright 1899 : Advertisement for Lecture by J Wainwright 1882
Photocopy of a pen drawing of Lea Hall, Mellor with text stating that for forty years this was the residence of Miss Shaw, who died here.
Taken From J Wainwright's : "Memories of Marple" c.1899

Hand drawn laminated poster with an illustration of…

Poster : Extracts from Bridge Almshouses Rules
Photocopy of A3 poster : Extracts from the Rules established by Mrs Elizabeth Bridge for the Government of the Almswomen in the Bridge Almshouses of which Almshouses, during her life, Mrs Elizabeth Bridge was sole Governor and Visitor : Rules 12,…

Booklets : Marple & Marple & Mellor as Places of Residence
Two photocopies of booklets entitled
1. Marple & Mellor as Places of Residence : 24 pages with handwritten corrections.
2. Marple as a place of Residence
Both are undated but one is a revised version of the other and both promote Ley Hay Estate…

Magazine Articles relating to Marple & Mellor from 1966
Nine magazine articles relating to Marple and Mellor :
1. May 1966 Christopher Moore finds Marple full of Vitality and Imagination...not just an Address : article & photos (pp 62-69)
2. July 1972 Cheshire Life : Marple - Vital & Imaginative :…

Miscellaneous Newspaper cuttings from 1827 relating to Marple & Mellor.
Three punched pockets containing numerous miscellaneous newspaper cuttings from various sources dating from 1827. (some are dated articles and others are undated).
Photocopies of cuttings, original newspaper articles and typed transcripts
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