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1. Photocopy of black and white wedding photograph outside Brentwood House in 1946 of Bill Barrett and Ada Lee, who had family connections to Marple Swimming baths and Brentwood with handwritten names of principal attendees around…

Report downloaded from the Oxford Journal Website, John Welshman of Lancaster University report entitled : Recuperation, Rehabilitation and Residential Option : The Brentwood Centre for Mothers and Children 2008. History of Brentwood and how the…

Research material and e mail correspondence with reference to Edith Doris Abrahams, warden at Brentwood House until retirement in 1964 after 20 years.
Research Material including BMD certificates, census records 1881 to 1911, All Liverpool, England…

Newspaper articles downloaded from the Guardian Archive online relating to Brentwood from 1904 to 1962, e.g.
1904 Brentwood, Marple to be let or sold
1940 Home for raid victims : The Marple Centre
1941 Rest and recuperation after raids :…

Correspondence with Denis Partingon Chief Executive at Communityfutures with invitation to AGM In October 2014, a copy of the AGM minutes and Annual Report booklet, along with discussions of sharing archive material for exhibition in the future. 2013…

Research material on Brentwood House, Church Lane, Marple :
1. 2013 email communication with Cineflix who were researching Brentwood for TV programme.
2. 2014 email communication with Michael Lambert with newspaper articles and research…

Newspaper and magazine articles and cuttings on Brentwood, history, extensions and closure. Various dates and newspapers from 1911.
1911 Sale of Work and Garden Fete at Brentwood
1920 Paradise for mothers : holiday for mothers worn out by the…

Two typed pages : Schedule giving key to 60 photographs on CD (B S Barton) dated 2008 for Damsteads Farmhouse, Mellor

Three typed pages giving history of Damsteads Mill, Mellor with details taken from Historic Industries of Marple and Mellor 1989 SMBC.

1. Two maps showing the location and area around Damsteads dates : 1880 : 1849
2. Map and typed data taken from 1836 Valuation of Mellor relating to Damsteads Mill, Proprietor R Arkwright, Occupier G Froggatt
3. Valuation map showing Damsteads…

Photocopy of delivery note from Damsteads Mill dated 1860.

Fifteen colour photographs, no dates, showing outbuildings and surrounding masonry at Damsteads.
Three sepia photographs, undated, showing Damsteads from various angles. These photographs are on the Marple Website Virtual Tour

Assorted photographs, drawing and painting of Damstead Farm and Mill.
1. M Raphael Jones painting dated 1914 original and photocopy
2, Black & White photograph on card of Lower Damsteads Mill in Ruins 1930's
3. Damsteads photograph on card …

Photocopies of typed notes of newspaper articles and extracts with dates from several newspapers relating to Damsteads Farm, the Mill and their occupants. This includes dissolution of partnership, lettings, sales, bankruptcy and creditors. Dated…

Original copy of W H Robinson Auctioneer Brochure with details of auction of "historic stone outbuilding for restoration and conversion to detached country house" named Roman Lodge, Strawberry Hill, Old Mellor; auction to take place at the Norfolk…

Research Notes / Maps / Census records 1911 / 1939 Register and correspondence all relating to Ludworth Houses.

Photocopies of census records from 1841 -1901 with typed breakdown of the residents of Ludworth Houses, Ludworth : This was part of the Mellor Heritage Project : Date unknown.

Carbon copy of letter to Mr Bennett dated 1981 enquiring into the old history of Mellor.
Author of letter was a resident of Sycamore Cottages in 1910 information on resident/reminiscences.

Photocopy of 11 page essay "A House called Hempfield" by AJS in 2001, now known as 17 Mill Brow, giving information with maps, photographs and the historical connection to Ratcliffe Family and local mills, with schedule of residents up to 1986 when…

Material relating to Field House, it design with drawings, and its history during the first world war.
Photocopies of 22 pages extracted from Will Bucks Journal with brief history of house and Marple. Drawing and photographs of family and the…

Research material gathered by present owner (2019) on the history of the house and its surroundings. This includes dated Tithe, Poor Law and location maps, photographs, census records, lease schedule, Land Registry reports, legal documents and…

Typed copy of two reports of Auctions by Mr Joseph Scholfield from the Stockport Advertiser
(a) to be held on 26th February 1820 at the house of Mr Charles Higginbotham at the sign of the Stag's Head, "Freehold buildings to be sold by Auction"…

Photocopy of pencil sketch showing the exterior of Low Lea Hall on card. Undated. Artist Joel Wainwright
Two typed pages of information relating to the exterior construction dating from 1840. Source unknown

Email correspondence with regard to 39 Market Street from Diane Chew (2019), giving information and details of her family connection to the property and the logo that appears on the wall.

Eight photocopied pages from Edward Mellor. Estate Agents giving sales details of Hilltop Farm, outbuildings and land. Undated, sale price £1,500.000.
Also given are two options for splitting the house/farm/stables and pasture.
Photocopies of local…