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Numerous water rates electricity and rates demands and receipts for Bottoms Hall/Mellor & Marple Lodges.
Wayleave to Trent Valley & High Peak Electricity Company Ltd : 1930 in envelope.

22 typed pages entitled "Water Supply & Public Health in Mellor from 1873" Information has been taken from various Council Minute & Letter Books - including those of Mellor Parish Council.
Information ends with the minutes of 7th March 1834.…

Miscellaneous material from Peter Dunn relating to the Ward Family of Marple Ridge End Farm including email information, photocopies of Black & White Photographs, census records, and handwritten family tree

Photocopies of photographs and inscription from Walmsley family gravestone at All Saints Church Marple on which are recorded the deaths of Charles and Betty Walmsley and their sons and daughters, Margaret Anne, James Braddock Walmsley, Charles Edward…

Photocopies of 1841 - 1911 census records for Walmsley family
1851 census records for Hollins Fold : Mill Workers.
Marriage Cert for Samuel Hodgkinson and Adelaide Sharples 1849.
Death certificates for:-
John Braddock Walmsley at Hibbert Lane,…

Three page typed list of Walmsleys Apprentices taken from the 1851 census return with additional information.
Author unknown

26 Page booklet with seven walks that start and finish at Romiley Station published by Friends of Romiley Station and Community Rail Newtwork.
2023

Original set of 6 illustrated leaflets in plastic wallet of walks in the Marple Area by Gordon MIlls printed in 1998.
1. Marple Dale
2. The Roman Bridge and Lakes
3. Marple Locks and Brabyns Park
4. Chadkirk
5. From Way to Cut (Middlewood Way…

Photocopies of the indenture (12 pages) with typed transcript dated 19th September 1639 and 3rd December 1792 referring to the setting up the Walklate Educational Trust for the maintenance of a Free School.

Original document produced by Ministry of Education giving information on the Walklate Educational Foundation relating to the scheme with its foundation in 1639 and regulations regarding the appointment of Trustees, meetings, voting, investments and…

Photocopies of extract from Walking Canals edited by Ronald Russell 1984.
Pages 84 - 90, Chapter 13, The Peak Forest Canal by Michael Miller with a 7 mile walk from Whaley Bridge to Marple with maps, key, descriptions highlighting points of…

Two photocopied photographs of Joel Wainwright's granddaughters wedding.
One newspaper cutting headed "Cheshire Wedding of Political Interest", from the Daily Sketch 1913

Typewritten copy of inscriptions on the gravestone of the Wainwright family grave in Disley Churchyard dating from 1860.

Original and photocopies of Christmas Greeting Cards composed by Joel Wainwright and sent to friends and the press.
16 small copies on A4 : Two orginals

Miscellaneous items including handwritten research notes on Wainwright's life.
Photographs of stained glass windows in St Martin's Church placed in Wainwright's memory.
Wainwright's family tree.

Numerous handwritten wage slips, time sheets, gratuities, summary of wages and expenses. for employees of the Marple and Mellor Estate for 1920's and 1930's.

Wage list from Hollins Mill Nos. 26 & 28 Weft Mules
date April 24th 1922.
Original and photocopy

Original copy of Women's Royal Navy Service Employment Certificate for Mabel Lewis Nelson (nee Edmond) who was employed as a rating between 1944 - 1946.

Various correspondence from 1935 regarding the Bequest from Mr William Torkington Kent of £120. 5s. 3p 3.5% War Stock to the church

Photocopies of the Hyde Division of Cheshire : Marple Polling District (District J) Township of Marple, List of residents, addresses in 1891 eligible to vote.

Photocopied report of a Society's visit to Marple for which Joel Wainwright acted as host [ organisation not specified]

Original copy of a message sent to school children to celebrate victory by the Allied Nations 8th June 1946.
Reverse has important war dates from 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and ending on 5th September 1945 when British Forces re-entered…

Original Marple Vestry Minutes Book 1849 - 1889. Elections of Overseers of the Poor and notice of Poor Rate Assessment April 1899.

Paper relating to the Vernon family of Marple with single page index detailing contents giving details of marriages, wills, birth/death certificates, reminiscences of Chapel House, Marple.

Various original documents relating to legacy of £100 from Joseph Vaughan of .the "Ash", Marple to All Saints Church.
Charity Commission documents and correspondence dating 1898 - 1950