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Photocopies of posters and advertising material from various publications promoting Hollins Mill c1922.
An entry for the Hollins Mill in Skinner's Cotton Trade Directory 1931-32.
An entry for Carver and Co Carriers in the Williams' Leeds Directory…

15 x A4 pages of typed research notes identifying records in the Carill Worsley Archives relating to Hollins Mill, Carvers, Walmsleys and other items relating to Marple generally, 1799-1936.

Photocopy cutting: Unemployed operatives stopped production at Marple Mills, August 1842.
Photocopy cutting: Sale of Cotton Spinning Machinery and Effects from Hollins Mill, November 1857.
Photocopy cutting: Hollins Mill Mutual Improvement Society,…

Undated plan of War Memorial Park showing council offices, flowerbeds, tennis courts, bowling green and proposed putting green. c1922.
Undated plan of The Hollins showing farm yard, what was probably a walled garden (where the library is now) and…

Chronological list of important dates and events from 1712, when the Hollins estate was indentured to Joshua Higginbotham, until 1988, when the final remains of Hollins Mill were demolished. See full copy of the list above.

A number of photocopies of photographs relating to Hollins Mill. A few examples are included in this entry but to see all the society's images relating to Hollins Mill visit The Marple Website Virtual History Tour.

A small off-cut sample of a "Marple Sheet" produced at Hollins Mill with two loose embroidered tags, probably from other sheets. Also includes original paper packaging label and guarantee form, which includes the following text:

MARPLE SHEETS…

15 typed pages of draft Chapters / Notes by Peter Bardsley.
First draft, later used by Ann Hearle for a book. Two hundred years of three families who owned The Hollins Mill Hall Estate, The Carvers, the Hodgkinsons and the Walmsleys.

Two pages…

Miscellaneous material relating to Betty Carver & Field Marshal Montgomery :
1. Extract from book "The Making of a General" (22 pages).
2. Article "A Marple Connection" by Audrey Featherstone (3 pages). Full transcript on Marple website.
3.…

History of Carver family from the 15c to 20c. Covering their business and family pedigree. Contains photographs of family, houses and business material. Written by Mrs Joyce R Donald in 1970.

Photocopies of two newspaper cuttings:-
Jan 1970…

Newspaper cuttings, photocopies, handwritten and typed relating to the Carvers, family and business.
1870 : Warehouse in Portland St, Manchester (the property of Mr William Carver) being built for Messrs George Frazer, Son & Co, merchants
1872…

Census Records - Carvers -1851 - 1911
14 pages of photocopied census records of the Carver family at several locations and dates.

1. Photocopy of photograph of John and Thomas Carver date unknown.
2. House for Golden Wedding in 1904 with Christian names or relationship underneath
3. Extract File 3/14 from Marple Website showing Family group as above with description of Golden…

Email correspondence between Hilary Atkinson and David Waterson regarding gravestone of Carver family.
Colour photograph of stone cross and grave shows ) inscription on one side “In loving remembrance of Harold Carver Barlow missing in France - -…

Information of Oswald Carver's military record during WW1 with the Royal Engineers and biography from www.Stockport 1914-1918.co.uk website.
Handwritten short biography of Captain Oswald Armitage Carver : author unknown.
Single handwritten page…

(a) Two A3 photocopied sheets comprising a schedule and map with key entitled “The Plan – referred to” signed at the bottom by Samuel Hodgkinson, Thomas Carver and John Carver but undated. This shows Hollins Mill with gasometer, chimney, boiler…

Original newspaper article with photograph from The Herald dated 15.10.1910. regarding donation of Recreation Ground and fountain by Mr Walter Bright Hodgkinson with details of opening ceremony and presentations.
Colourand black and white photos…

Extract from 'A journey through Time : Holmes Chapel : Cotton and Cranage', a book part written by Janet Yarwood , the last few pages covering the history of Cranage Hall and the period when the Carver Family lived at the Hall.
Photocopy of…

Handwritten research notes from several Trade Directories including Slater, Kelly, Pigots and Whites Directory for Carver family giving information on businesses and addresses of properties .

(a) Two photocopied photographs showing Wellington Mill Hazel Grove taken over by Hollins Mill & Co.
(b) Newspaper photograph from The Guardian
11 Jan 1964. showing Wellington Mill on Fire.
(c) Various items of research material regarding…

(a) Colour photographs of the Carver Warehouse taken 2014
(b) Three pages of handwritten research, author unknown.
(c) Page 224 from Manchester Fifty Years Ago', relating to the Carvers' Manchester concerns.
(d) Page 24 from 'Warehouses,…

Photocopy of envelope with logo of Carver Bros, Gibraltar and date stamp description, sent from Gibraltar to Plymouth on board the Euphrates in 1856.

1. Colour photocopy of Garswood, 32 Trafalgar Road, Birkdale, Southport home of Thomas Carver in 1911.

2. Photocopy of Map showing Greystoke dated 1914 home of John Carver after he moved from Marple.

Three page chart showing family descendants from William Carver b1800-d1875 to 1938. William's children included the twins Thomas and John Carver.

Two page typed text taken from Alderley & Wimslow Advertiser 8.9.1911. re the sale of Poynton Towers & Park Estate including gardens and pleasure grounds, pasture, the Paddock and associated farms and small buildings.
Description of Poynton Towers…