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Counterbalance weight	Counterbalance weight found in corridor in Mellor Mill. Weight with part of chain attached. Approximately 17cm long and approximately 4cm wide. C...	Unknown	find mellor mill counterbalance weight	View
Earthenware Jar	Top section of a broken earthenware jar. Cream with intact brown rim. Found at Mellor Lodge. Approximately 20cm wide with opening approximately 1...	Unknown	find jar earthenware mellor lodge	View
Cast Iron Kettle	Cast iron kettle found at Mellor Lodge. Well preserved with intact handle and spout. Length approximately 33cm.	Unknown	find mellor lodge kettle	View
Spanner with matching nut and washer	Large spanner with nut and washer in matching sizes for a bolt to secure an engine. Found in Mellor Mill. Length of spanner approximately 90cm an...	Unknown	find washer nut spanner mellor mill	View
Collection of Rivets	Collection of 10 boiler rivets found in the boiler house in Mellor Mill. Some more preserved than others. 3 with obvious domed heads and one still...	Unknown	mellor mill boilerhouse rivets	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
Drill bit	Drill bit with morse taper from the drive shaft at Mellor Mill. Would have worked roughly 1 inch into steel. Approximately 21cm long and 2.5cm wide.	Unknown	mellor mill morse taper drill bit drive shaft find	View
Section of Spinning Machine Bed	Machine bed from Samuel Brooks spinning machine. Found in corridor at the back of Mellor Mill. Top left hand section remaining. Letters in rel...	Unknown	find mellor mill spinning machine samuel brooks machine bed	View
Plan of Mellor Mill 1909	Plan of Mellor Mill extracted from Ordnance Survey annotated with features, 1909	Unknown	ordnance survey mellor mill plan	View
Detail from modern Ordnance Survey map 2000	Detail from modern Ordnance Survey map covering site (not marked) of Mellor Mill 2000	After 1 Jan 2000	ordnance survey modern mellor mill map	View
Mellor Mill Ordnance Survey map 1898	Detail from 1898 Ordnance Survey map of Mellor Mill (including Bottom's hall). Map indicated arrival of probable warehouse	1 Jan 1898	ordnance survey warehouse mellor mill site development map	View
Mellor Mill from Ordnance Survey map 1880	Large scale extract of plan from 1880 Ordnance Survey map of Mellor Mill	1 Jan 1880	ordnance survey mellor mill plan	View
Plan of Mellor Mill 1867 (after Ashmore 1989)	Plan of Mellor Mill (after Ashmore 1989). Reproduced from Stockport: A History, by Peter Arrowsmith	1 Jan 1867	plan arrowsmith ashmore mellor mill	View
Large scale map showing mill and Old Hall	Large scale map showing mill's situation in relation to Old Hall	Unknown	map old hall mellor mill	View
Past and present Goyt course	Map illustrating past and present Goyt course at Mellor Mill (as altered by Oldknow)	Unknown	mellor mill map oldknow Goyt	View
Founding of Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company	Item from Derbyshire Record Office intimating founding of Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company in 1823. Line opened 1830. Mention of Cromford b...	1 Jan 1829	cromford branch line liverpool and manchester railway	View
Burdett map of Derbyshire	Extract from Burdett map of Derbyshire, as far as Hadfield in the north and Hayfield in the south	Unknown	derbyshire map burdett	View
Oldknow's factory	Enlarged extract of map of Marple bridge and Mellor showing site of "Oldknow's factory"	Unknown	oldknow mellor mill map	View
Longhurst Lane in Mellor	Information on development of Longhurst Lane in Mellor	Unknown	development bottoms hall turnpike longhurst lane	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
Old map of Marple area	Old map of Marple area, from Marple Hall/ Etherow across to Strines before construction of mill	Unknown	pre-mill marple area map	View
Map showing Mellor Mill in relation to Ludworth Township	Large scale extract from an old county map showing position of Mellor Mill and Lower Marple	Unknown	ludworth mellor mill map	View
Map of Legacy Project area	map showing geographical extent of area covered by Samuel Oldknow's Legacy project	Unknown	oldknow HLF project map	View
Marriage record of Samuel Oldknow's parents.	Marriage record announcing the marriage of Samuel Oldknow's parents in 1754.	10 Sep 1754	samuel darbishire st.wilfred samuel oldknow margery foster	View
Samuel Oldknow's biography by A.C. Howe	Oxford Dictionary of national Biography: Samuel Oldknow's Biography: Acknowledgments	From 1 Jan 2004 to 31 Dec 2013	leeds temple newsam house j.wright of derby likenesses a.c. howe london friendly hospital correspondence re employment of apprentices manchester archives & local studies manchester cl jrl correspondence & papers baltimore business & estate papers john hopkins university correspondence and papers col.u 1977 derbyshire archaeological journal samuel pldknow and the peak forest canal d.j. hodgkins 1899 memories of marple	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
SO's biography by A.C. Howe	Oxford Dictionary of Biography: Samuel Oldknow's Biography by A.C. Howe	From 1 Jan 2004 to 31 Dec 2013	cotton lords steam-powered mill 1790 peels finishing works heaton mersey stockport weaving winding warping 1784 hand-loom weavers arkwrights enlighten ment joseph wright botany bay 1789 indian muslins 1779 spinning mule muslin 1781 thomas oldknow rivington and blackrod grammar school john clayton thomas foster margery foster nottingham lancashire anderton 5.10.1756 1756-1828 samuel oldknow	View
SO's aims from Classic Soil	extract from "Classic Soil:Community,Aspirations and Debate in the Bolton Region of Lancashire,1819 - 1845" by Malcolm Hardman	From 1 Jan 2003 to 31 Dec 2003	wesleyanism primitive methodists calvinistic faith 1817 methodist edward smith radical 1816 the alarming distress of the country napoleonic wars old rachel's farm sweetlove'sfarm prospect farm rivington unitarian chapel roscoe lowe liverpool 1852 - 57 bolton 1800 richard arkwright junior derbyshire 1787 unitarian chapel house account of rivington anderton 1793 widow capet martha shaw samuel oldknow mousseline marie antoinette	View
SO's aims from Classic Soil	Extracts from " Classic Soil:Community,Aspiration and Debate in the Bolton Region of Lancashire,1819 - 1845" by Malcolm Hardman	From 1 Jan 2003 to 31 Dec 2003	bolton industrial revolution rivington 1786 indonesia india st. petersburg leipzig brussels paris philadelphia london brazil sudan egypt samuel oldknow junior 1764 roscoe lowe joseph shaw 1762 anderton margaret foster nottingham	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