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Email enquiry from Gary James of MCFC wanting information in regard to L W Furniss and his connection with Manchester City Football Club. 2002.
Single page photocopy of Pages 302 and 303 of Manchester Genealogist Volume 50 NO 4 from 2014 with…

Original copy of the Minute Book for the Marple Residents' Association dated 23rd March 1945 to llth October 1946.
First pages gives report of the public meeting (copy of newspaper report) and setting up the constitution of the Association and the…

Typed committee minutes from the Marple Resident's Association for the years 1958 - 1963.
Examples of their Report and Accounts along with miscellaneous newspaper reports on the Association.
Ring bound with cardboard cover.

Two original legal documents relating to properties known as "Westwood" and "Norwood" on Arkwright Road.
1919 Assignment between John W. Lomas to Mr Joseph Macnab and Mrs Jeanie Leigh for leasehold of the property Westwood and Norwood
1925…

Photocopy of a mortgage for Bleak House (formally known as Old Mill House) dated 1922 between Ronald C King & Harold D. Birkett.
Letter from F Newton & Son, Solicitor, Stockport, 1940 sending above to Mr Furniss, Old Hall, Marple in accordance with…

Several legal documents relating to the dwellinghouse "Rosetor" and motor garage situated in Strines Road, Marple.
a. Mortgage : April 1924 between Ethel Pratt to National Independent Permanent Benefit Building Society. Typed and handwritten.
b.…

Copy of Conveyance & Assignment from the personal representatives of George Platt to Mr & Mrs Samuel Wild of Lea Hurst , Marple. dated 1929
Covering letter from A P Brooks, Solicitors of Stockport to E Furniss, Agent to Captain R A Arkwright.

Three original copies of Assignments & Conveyances dated 1915, 1930 & 1937 :

a. 1915 : Agreement : Frederick C Arkwright & Mrs Carrie Wade for "Graylands"

b. 1926 : Conveyance of Graylands, between A R Addy-Refern to R W Dawes. Letter from…

Four page Assignment dated 1930 between George F Buck and Noel R Mossop & Frederick Charles Arkwright for messuage called "Field House" to be built on.
Conveyance & Assignment dated 1940 between Mr R C King and Mr J R Ackroyd for plots of land and…

Original copy of an Assignment of a leaeshold dwelling house known as "Dorane", Arkwright Road, Marple dated 10th November 1924, between A Hatton to J G Dickson.
Letter from Barrow & Smith, Solicitors, Manchester sending copy of above to E Furniss…

Correspondence between W A Brown the Secretary of the Parochial Church Council and Captain R A Arkwright with regard to land offered for the proposed new Parish Hall at All Saints dated 1935.
Typed first schedule, no date.

Original accounts of Edwin Furniss Deceased from January lst to November 22nd 1930 for the Marple & Mellor Estates of Captain R F Arkwright showing income and expenditure.
Audited by Henry Steele & Company, Incorporated Accountants, Manchester

Letter from Henry Steele & Company, Accountants to L W Furniss of the "Old Hall" in response to a request from the Country Gentlemans Association requesting the acreage of various holding of Mellor and Marple Properties belonging to Arkwrights…

Original copy of the frontispiece signed L W Furniss dated 8th June 1931 giving notice of F C Arkwright Esq's Mellor & Marple Estate half year audit which will be hold on 4th June from Lady Day to Midsummer.

Schedule of costs for services rendered to R A Arkwright from Farrar & Company, Solicitors, under the headings "General" and "C F White, Marple Lodge" dates 1932, 33 and 35 in connection with Estate Matters.
Accompanying receipts.

Correspondence from Inland Revenue, H M Inspector of Taxes, Hyde requesting clarification of Arkwright Estate acres. 1931
Response to enquiry from L W Furniss.
Handwritten notes on Arkwright Estate acreage.

Single page document from Farrar & Company, Solicitors, Manchester to Mr E Furniss, Strawberry Hill, Marple enclosing Assignment dated 18th December last from Mr Harold Brockbank to Mrs Marion Griffiths of "Covehithe" Old Hall Lane, Mellor dated…

Letter & postcard from Miss A G Hill of "Ellerslie, Marple dated 1935 to L W Furniss over rent due and pipe line payments.
With Envelope.

Letter from Lloyds Bank Limited, Wirksworth, Derby dated 1931 to L W Furniss Esq, The Old Hall, Marple with regard to the Mellor and Marple Estate and confirming payment arrangements for Captain Arkwright's through District Bank, Marple. 1931

Original Rural District Council of Hayfield rates demand addressed to L W Furniss, The Old Hall, Mellor, with attached receipt for 1932.

Miscellaneous material relating to Arkwright Estate :
a. Henry Steel, Accountants, Manchester, bills and receipts along with correspondence relating to accounts. 1931 - 1936
b. Solicitors Letter, several topics
c. Banks : general administration.

Correspondence between Escritt & Barrell to F C Arkwright regarding the possible sale of the Mellor and Marple Estates, 1915 - 1916

Letter from Boote, Edgar & Co Solicitors with regard to an incorporation of S.E.L.N.E.C taking over "Brentwood" and an assignment to Mr MacNair. 1937 Also typed statement referring to the Shanty adjoining "Brentwood" property from solicitor…

Original indenture made 1920 between F C Arkwright of Willerlsey and Hayfield Rural District Council relating to renting a plot of land .
Also A3 plan on wax paper with key giving details of the location of the 2549 approx yards referred to in the…

Copy indenture re a parcel of land formerly owned by F C Arkwright "Tranmore" on Longhurst Lane, Mellor between Joseph Grainger and Maude Ellen Kelsall 1924.
Acting Solicitors Diggles & Ogden, Manchester