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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

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 :…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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

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,…

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.

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…