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Cog	Ring spinner	Unknown	find mellor mill cog ring spinner	View
Ring spinner cog	Ring spinner cog	Unknown	find mellor mill ring spinner cog	View
Ring spinner cog - top down view	Ring spinner cog. From later in history	Unknown	find mellor mill ring spinner cog	View
Rivington Grammar School	Rivington Grammar School as it may have looked when SO and Thomas Oldknow attended	Unknown	thomas oldknow samuel oldknow rivington and blackrod grammar school	View
Sale of Chapel House Farm 5	Sale of Chapel House Farm, originally part of Samuel Oldknow's estate, continued.	From 1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2014	stables classic design peak forest canal	View
Sale of Chapel House Farm 3	Sale of Chapel House Farm, originally part of Samuel Oldknow's estate, description of ground floor	From 1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2014	arched windows well stone flagged floor orangery galleried hallway	View
Sale of Chapel House Farm 4	Sale of Chapel House Farm, originally part of Samuel Oldknow's estate, first floor description	From 1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2014	peak forest canal galleried landing stone staircase exposed timber trusses arched windows	View
Sale of Chapel House Farm 2	Sale of Chapel House Farm, originally part of Samuel Oldknow's estate, Property description	From 1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2014	samuel oldknow peak forest canal stockport marple brickbridge road	View
Samuel Oldknow's biography by A.C.Howe 2	Samuel Oldknow's biography	From 1 Jan 2004 to 31 Dec 2013	gentlemen 24.09.1828 18.09.1828 1828 chairman of agricultural society 1824 high sheriff of derbyshire volunteers lieutenant-colonel napoleonic wars medieval fortresses peak forest canal turnpike roads bridges coal-shafts limekilns marple parish apprentices coarse yarn apprentices water-poweredfactory derbyshire Mellor 1787 anderton stockport 1792 economic crisis fine-cotton spinning oldknow muslins 1788 richard arkwright strutts arkwrights	View
photocopy of SO's Will	Samuel Oldknow's Will	23 Feb 1829	godwin and co portsmouth southampton john oakshott 1829 j.p.crompton charles horsley william duckworth edward fearnhead john braddock john clayton phebe oldknow jane joall elizabeth clayton ann clayton martha oldknow margery mary bullivant caroline beevee elizabeth dooley will samuel oldknow	View
Enlarged Plan of Mellor Mill 1867	Scale 40 feet to an inch Black and white line plan of the Mellor Mill site	From 1 Jan 1867 to 31 Dec 1867	drawing plan mellor mill	View
Section of fire bar	Section of fire bar from steam boiler grate. Found in boiler house coal store.	Unknown	boiler house find mellor mill fire bar	View
Section of lime plaster cornicing	Section of lime plaster cornice from Mellor Lodge.	Unknown	mellor lodge find cornice	View
Ordnance Survey maps overlaid onto modern map	Sequence of dated Ordnance Survey maps overlaid onto modern OS mapping, illustrating development of Mellor Mill site over time. Attached to email ...	Unknown	mellor mill site development OS maps	View
Stone Row, sketch plan	Sketch plan of Stone Row	Unknown	sketch plan stone row	View
Small clog heel	Small clog heel. Found in rear mill staircase	Unknown	find mellor mill small clog wheel	View
Glass inkwell	Small glass inkwell. Possibly made from moulded glass. Found in Mellor Lodge. Approximately 4cm wide and approximately 3.5cm tall.	Unknown	find inkwell glass mellor lodge	View
Small roller from spinning machine	Small roller from spinning machine. Part of drive shaft.	Unknown	mellor mill spinning machine roller find	View
Small section of steam engine	Small section of steam engine. Found in engine house.	Unknown	find mellor mill engine house steam engine	View
Square Key	Square key found in the boiler house at Mellor Mill. Roughly 22cm long and 5cm wide.	Unknown	boilerhouse find square key mellor mill	View
Steam engine part	Steam engine part. Found in engine house	Unknown	steam engine part find mellor mill	View
Stone Row, Marple	Stone Row, Marple	From 1 Jan 1912 to 31 Dec 1912	marple stone row	View
Strawberry Hill	Strawberry Hill	Unknown	strawberry hill	View
Text of speech by John Hearle given at the opening ceremony for the Wellington Wheel Pit	Text of speech by John Hearle given at the opening ceremony for the Wellington Wheel Pit on Saturday March 10th, 2012.	10 Mar 2012	John Hearle wellington wheel pit mellor mill	View
Photograph Marple Aqueduct c1900	The Aqueduct viewed from the footpath to Watermeetings Farm around a hundred years ago.	Unknown	photograph locks canal aqueduct	View
Photograph of Lock Keepers Cottage at Lock 9	The cottage alongside Lock 9 is another former lock-keeper's cottage and now a listed building. The owners have put a lot of effort into restoring ...	Unknown	marple locks lock 9	View
The Garden House, Marple	The Garden House, Marple	Unknown	marple garden house	View
Photograph of Black Wharf and Brick Row at Lock 12	The great old picture of Black Wharf below is very interesting as you can see Brick Row, built by Oldknow for his workers, in the background to the...	Unknown	marple locks lock 12	View
History of Rivington and Blackrod grammar school	"The History of Rivington and Blackrod Grammar School" by Margaret M. Kay	Unknown	the crosses richard arkwright 1783 governer's meeting east india company 1765 usher samuel oldknow rivington and blackrod grammar school	View
Interior of All Saints' old church	The interior of All Saints' Old church (Oldknow's church) decorated for the first Harvest Thanksgiving. The range given below is the period for wh...	From 1 Jan 1811 to 30 Jun 1880	harvest marple all saints church All Saints marple church	View