Saddleworth Historical Society

Saddleworth Historical Society Bulletin

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Volume 39

Number 3 Autumn 2009

Henry Taylor: Britain's Greatest Swimmer. Jane McCann.
Sport in the Saddleworth Archives. Neil Barrow.
The Home Front in Saddleworth - 2. Peter Fox & Jeannie Sawkins.
Early Saddleworth Records - 2.  Mike Buckley.
A Grim Diary of Saddleworth - 2. Paul Fryar.
Book Reviews. Neil Barrow.
Obituary - Eric Watson. Canon J. Sykes.

Cover illustration: Quickedge United AFC c. 1900.

Volume 39

Number 2 Summer 2009

"Seeing Through a Glass Darkly". Mike Buckley
Early Saddleworth Records - 1, Mike Buckley 
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Cover illustration: Charter c. 1230 whereby Robert de Stapleton grants part of Shawmere to Robert son of Simon de Staveley

Volume 39

Number 1 Spring 2009

An Uppermill Scene. Jean Hay
A Grim Diary of Saddleworth Part 1,  Paul Fryar Extract from the Diary of Canon F R Raines, Part 4  Roger Ivens
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Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

Cover illustration: Saddleworth Church June 1976 copyright Michael Fox

 

Volume 38

Number 4, Winter 2008

Chairman's Report: Mike Buckley
Saddleworth Banking Company, Lists of Shareholders:
History of Back o'th Low, Roland Broadbent
Extract from the Diary of Canon F.R. Raines, Part 3, Roger Ivens
Saddleworth Historical Society Publications Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

Cover illustration: Site of Rowland Dicksons from 'A Map of Quick Edge, Wharmton, High Moor and Badger Edge, 1625'

 

Volume 38

Number 3, Autumn 2008

John Arthur Young (aka) Jack Young) 1881 - 1966;
School Board Attendance Officer 1903 - 1946
Gillian Taylor Shaw, Dannie Wright
Andrew Mill: The Development of a Textile Mill
Recent Excavations at the site of the former Andrew Mill in Greenfield, B. Poole, C. Slatter
Fire and Ice: Impressions of a Saddleworth Childhood in the 1960's, Michael Fox
Saddleworth Historical Society Publications Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

Cover illustration: Aerial view of Andrew Mill facing South, taken in 1988 for the Gtr Mcr textile mill survey
© GMAU/English Heritage
 

Volume 38

Number 2, Summer 2008

The Victoria Cross, Ian Mclnnes
Extracts from the Diary of Canon F R Raines: Part 2 Roger Ivens
An Anzio DCM Group of Miniatures, Ian Mclnnes Saddleworth Historical Society Publications Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

Cover illustration: Frederick Kelly MBE, DCM, MSM

Volume 38

Number 1, Spring 2008

James Wrigley (1730-1818) and his Apprentice, John Thornton: A Saddleworth Relationship that Changed One Life Forever, Jeanne A Dunne
Winterbottom of Saddleworth, Ian McInnes
Extracts from the Diary of Canon F R Raines: Part 1, Roger Ivens
Saddleworth Historical Society Publications
Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

Cover illustration: Delph Independent Chapel (Copyright of Oldham Local Studies and Archives)

Volume 37

Number 4, Winter 2007

Chairman's Report
Cotton Town Comrades, Ian McInnes
Letter to the Editor
World War 2, Ivy Grayshon
Saddleworth Historical Society Publications
Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

Cover illustration: Pill Boxes on the A635 at Greenfield (Copyright of Oldham Local Studies and Archives)

Volume 37

Number 3, Autumn 2007

Chairman's Report
The Suffragettes in Oldham and District, 1905-1910 Paul Fryer
Two Saddleworth Inventories, Roger Ivens
Saddleworth Men Killed During the Battle of Passchendaele, 1917, Susan Smith
Book Review: Cotton and Confederates: All Our Tomorrows Reviewed by Chris Foleyy
Letter to the Editor, Edgar Wright
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Cover illustration: Grave of Private J Weigh, Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium
 

Volume 37 

           Number 2,  Summer 2007

        The Suffragettes in Oldham and District, 1905-        1910 -Paul Fryer
        The Wrigley's of Doctor House - Alan S Hague
        A Tragic Story - Lewis W Cohen
        Index to Volume 32.2002

        Saddleworth Historical Society Publications
        Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

Cover illustration: Inventory of Thomas Wrigley of Doctor House, 7 June 1718

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Volume 37 

           Number 1,  Spring 2007

The Suffragettes in Oldham and District, 1905 -   1910 -Paul Fryer
Saddleworth News from The Times - Howard Lambert
The Home Front in Saddleworth  1 - Peter Fox
Private Lewis Charlesworth - Susan Smith
Death in the Old Workhouse at Knarr Barn -     Roger Ivens

Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

Cover illustration: The certificate received by Mr. and Mrs. Arnold from the Queen for their dedication and service they had rendered in helping these child evacuees

Volume 36      

Number 4, Winter 2006

Address on the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary Celebrations ­ Mike Buckley, Society Chairman
Photographic Mysteries of Saddleworth
Saddleworth Men in the Spanish Civil War - Edmund & Ruth Frow, Frieda Millet, Jennifer Clark & Neil Barrow
Christmas in Saddleworth - Paul Fryer
Saddleworth News from The Times - Howard Lambert
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Cover illustration: Preliminary Sketch for Oldham Memorial by Jim Robison recently donated to Oldham Local Studies & Archives

Volume 36      

Number 3, Autumn 2006

The Formation of the Saddleworth Labour Party ­ Paul Fryer
A Saddleworth Guy Fawkes Night 1906, Paul Fryer
Saddleworth Placenames and Locations: a CD ROM
Kiln Green School: Bad Old Days? - Mary Schofield
Saddleworth Voters' List 1832
Journals
Letters
Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

Cover illustration: Kiln Green School, Diggle, sketched by Geoff Toms: .
Saddleworth Villages p. 54

Volume 36      

Number 2, Summer 2006

 

A Meeting of the Family History Group members from around the World: A personal account.

Trevor Butterworth & Jeanne Dunn   

A Plate-Layer's Wife part II, Sarah Wrigley                              

The Turnpikes & Tollbars of Saddleworth part II, Chris Marcus

Letters              

Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter                               

Cover illustration: Saddleworth Church 1828 before the rebuilding a few years later. Illustrated in James Butterworth's An Historical & Topographical Account of the Parochial Chapelry of Saddleworth . . . now reprinted by the Society.

Volume 36      

Number 1, Spring 2006

 

Chairman's Report - 2005, Mike Buckley   

A Wakes Outing to a Biscuit Factory, Peter Fox     

A Plate-layers Wife, Sarah Wrigley                              

Saddleworth Archives: The Co-operative Societies, Neil Barrow          

Letters                

Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter                               

Cover illustration: The Delph Co-operative Hall, Millgate, sketched by Geoff Toms: Saddleworth Villages p.19

Volume 35      

Number 4, Winter 2005

 

The Turnpikes and Tollbars of Saddleworth, Chris Marcus   

Navvies in Saddleworth in the last quarter of the 19th Century, Russ Lewis     

Photographic Mysteries of Saddleworth                               

Sixfoot: A true Story of a Little Navvy, Helen Brierley                               

Tommy and Timmy: Two Oldham Pals, Albert Broadbent          

Letters                

Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter                               

Cover illustration: The map of 1870 shows some of the reservoirs planned for the Denshaw area to supply water to Oldham. Ashlar Knowle is where the Hawker family, in Russ Lewis' article lodged. Saddleworth Museum collection M/GX/JF/2

Volume 35

Number 3, Autumn 2005

Cover Illustration: Medical and nursing staff sit for their portrait at Saddleworth Military Hospital, Ashway Gap, Greenfield c.1917.
Saddleworth Museum Collection M/P. See Peter Fox's article in this number.

5addleworth's Military Hospitals of the First World War                           

Fred Holden of the Royal Naval Air Service    

Hervey Rhodes at the Battle of the Somme 1916                             

A Childhood Memory                                    

Joel Buckley MC                 

5addleworth archives: World War 1             

Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter    

Volume 35

Number 2, Summer 2005

Cover Illustration: The Castleshaw Valley: Old Hey lies on the ancient trackway and the Friarmere boundary.

Whit Friday in Uppermill

Christmas in Saddleworth

Saddleworth Trackways

Sources for Saddleworth History: West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum records

        Letters

        Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

Volume 35

Number 1, Spring 2005

Cover Illustration: James Frederic Buckley

Edward Schofield

The Closure of the Colliers' Arms, Mossley

Stolen from Yorkshire: The Saddleworth Milestones

Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter

(1999 - 2004 to follow)

Contents

Volume 29

Number 1, Spring 1999

Cover: Photograph of Platt's Monument, Ashway Moss, Greenfield

The Saddleworth, Lees and Springhead Tramway Company

The Stanedge turnpikes

Royal George, the Whiteheads, and Christ Church, Friezland

Milestones, merestones, and others

The other Saddleworth

It's a long way from Royal George, Greenfield, to Australia

Millennium - or is it?

The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association National Recording Project

Saddleworth Historical Society web pages

Letters

Newsletter, Spring 1999

Volume 28

Number 4, Winter 1998

Cover: Drawing of Saddleworth Church and surrounds

Report of the Chairman to the Annual General Meeting

Memories of Running Hill between the Wars

Monumental inscriptions at Delph Independent Chapel - Part 7

Letters

Newsletter, Winter 1998

Number 3, Autumn 1998

Cover: Advertisements from Saddleworth Official Handbook, c. 1950

Obituary: Pat Stonehouse

Saddleworth industry in 1950

More letters from Ammon Wrigley

Saddleworth notices

Letters

Newsletter, Autumn 1998

Number 2, Summer 1998

Cover: Denshaw Vale Printworks, c. 1910

The construction of Lydgate Tunnel

A history of the Denshaw Vale Printworks

Letters from Ammon Wrigley

Letters

Index to Volume 27

Newsletter, Summer 1998

Number 1, Spring 1998

Cover: Drawing of first turnpike milestone , Thurston Clough Road

From workhouse to New World

From the diary of George Shaw

The Ainsworth family - Links with Saddleworth?

Milestones, merestones and others

Monumental inscriptions at Delph Independent Chapel - Part 6

Letters

Newsletter, Spring 1998

Volume 27

Number 4, Winter 1997

Cover: "Denshaw", a steam engine used in construction of Castleshaw Reservoir

Report of the Chairman to the Annual General Meeting

Steam in the Valley - the Castlesahw Waterworks Tramway

Transported

The Mayall Family of Saddleworth

A visit to Saddleworth by the Naturalists' Field Club of Liverpool, 1872

Letters

Newsletter, Winter 1997

Number 3, Autumn 1997

Cover: Saddleworth Church and High Stile c. 1920

Reports of the Charity Commissioners for 1828 and 1896: Wharmton School

The Reverend Henry Hunt

Out with the Old - The policy of the Saddleworth Urban District Council towards housing, 1900-1939

Uppermill - A Wartime Memory

Poverty and the application of the Poor Law in Saddleworth, 1780-1900

Gone, but not forgotten: Nab End

Greenfield advertisements in 1949

Newsletter, Autumn 1997

Number 2, Summer 1997

Cover Illustration: Dobcross from Ladcastle Road

Memories of Dobcross in the 1920s

An Old Boundary Stone

Saddleworth Auctions

Monumental Inscriptions at Delph Independent Chapel, Part 5

A & J Butterworth Limited, Haulage Contractors of Grenfield

Saddleworth Spiral Puzzle

Letters

Newsletter, Summer 1997

Index to Volume 26

Solution to Saddleworth Spiral Puzzle

Number 1, Spring 1997

Cover: Drawing of fragement of Samian vessel, c. 100AD

Castleshaw Evaluation Stage Two

Newsletter, Spring 1997

Volume 26

Number 4, Winter 1996

Cover: Drawing of The Square, Dobcross

Obituary: Alec Schofield

Becket Whitehead's Saddleworth

The Wool Wall at Holly Grove, Dobcross

Chairman's Report for 1996

Saddleworth Auctions

The Reverend Noah Blackburn

Letters

Newsletter, Winter 1996

Number 3, Autumn 1996

Cover: Hey Top, Greenfield, 1980s

Saddleworth in 1841 - A view through the census

The Mumps improvement scheme of 1892

"Near utopian conditions"

Newsletter, Autumn 1996

Number 2, Summer 1996

Cover: Late Victorian poster for a concert in Delph

Mossley Corporation Gas Works

Saddleworth Advertisements

Olympic Games

Ammon Wrigley - An Appreciation

Saddleworth Auctions

Monumental Inscriptions at Delph Independent Chapel, Part 4

Letters

Index to Volume 25

Newsletter, Summer 1996

Number 1, Spring 1996

Cover: Drawings of Saddleworth Church and the Museum, Uppermill

Daycroft Field, Castleshaw

The Lamentation of James Bardsley

A Companion Volume for the Cherry Valley Chronicles?

Letters

Newsletter, Spring 1996

Volumes 17 - 25

Volume 25

Number 4, Winter 1995

Cover: Design for a plaque marking the birthplace of Henry Platt, a Bridge House.

Obituary: John Murray

Chairman's Report for 1995

The Shaw family of Boarshurst, Part 2

At the Whyt Harte Inn

A Saddleworth diary

Saddleworth auctions

Letters

Newlsetter, Winter 1995

Number 3, Autumn 1995

Cover: Boarshurst and evirons from 1770 inclosure map

Canon Airne - Obituary

The Shaw Family of Boarshurst - Part One

Lower Lime Farm

Monumental Inscriptions at Delph Independent Chapel - Part 3

Saddleworth Auctions

Letters

Newlsetter, Autumn 1995

Number 2, Summer 1995

Cover: Drawing of the Cross Keys Inn, Uppermill c. 1925

250^th Anniversary of the Cross Keys Inn, Uppermill, 1745-1995

The Byrom Family of Slackcote

Walter Ramsden - A Pioneer of Public Health in Saddleworth

Saddleworth Auctions

Letters

Newsletter, Summer 1995

Number 1, Spring 1995

Cover: Drawings of Swan Inn, and house of Joseph Lawton, Dobcross

In Search of Railways on Crompton Moor

Compoflex Limited, Delph

Saddleworth Auctions

Worm Hole, Greenfield

End of the Dobcross Loom

Greater Manchester County Record Office

Letters

Index to Volume 24

Newsletter, Spring 1995

 

 

Volume 24

Number 4, Winter 1994

Cover: Drawing of the Fairy Holes, Greenfield

Chairman's Report for 1994

The Fairy Holes

Some Descendants of the Platt family of Thorns, Part 2

Records at the Family History Centre, Rochdale

Letters

The Family of John and Mary Shaw Shrigley

Newsletter, Winter 1994

 

Number 3, Autumn 1994

Cover: Goods warehouse at Uppermill, c. 1900

Some Descendants of the Platt family of Thorns, Saddleworth - Part 1

Barring-Out

Micklehurst Loop Finale

Fairbottom Bobs

The People of Bridge House

Saddleworth in Wartime - Part Two

Letters

Newsletter, Autumn 1994

Number 2, Summer 1994

Cover: Drawings from a programme of entertainments by German POWs.

Glen Mill - A Prisoner of War Camp

Saddleworth in Wartime - Part One

Monumental Inscriptions at Delph Independent Chapel - Part 2

Index to Volume 23

Newsletter, Summer 1994

Number 1, Spring 1994

Cover: Drawings of Standedge Canal Tunnel and aqueduct.

Memories of Saddleworth Childhood

Monumental Inscriptions at Delph Independent Chapel

A Saddleworth Suffragette

Mining in Oldham

Cock-fighting

Further notes on the Buckleys of Bridge House

The "Great Flood" of 1857

Letters

Newsletter, Spring 1995

Volume 23

Number 1, Spring 1993

Cover: Lee Street School, Uppermill, 1987

Lees Street School: the early history of St Chad's School, Uppermill

Health and Community in Saddleworth 1900-1910, Part 2

Farewell to the Florin, Hello to the new Crown

Letters

Index to Volume 22

Newsletter, Spring 1993

Volume 22

Number 4, Winter 1992

Cover: Buckley New Mill, Uppermill, c. 1900

Chairman's Report for 1992

Health and Community in Saddleworth 1990-1910, Part 1

The Saddleworth Mail Van attack of 1911

Crossword puzzle

Letters

Number 3, Autumn 1992

Cover: Cover of Baines' 1882 Directory of Yorkshire

The Saddleworth Dynasty of Parish Clerks

The Early Nineteenth Century Trade Directories for Saddleworth

Letters

Newsletter, Autumn 1992

Number 2, Summer 1992

Cover: Notice of Sale of Ashway Gap Estate, 1897

Early Holly Grove

Saddleworth Water Supply - miscellany

A Saddleworth Bibliography, 1980-89

Memoirs of Becket Whitehead - Part 3

Letters

Newsletter, Summer 1992

Number 1, Spring 1992

Cover: Drawing from a letterhead of Dobcross Loom Works, c. 1870

The Dobcross Loom Works

Saddeworth Notices

The Gartsides of Woodbrow

Memoirs of Becket Whitehead - Part 2

Letters

Index to Volume 21

Newsletter, Spring 1992

Volume 21

Number 4, Winter 1991

Cover: Plan of Diggle Bridge and evirons, 1886

Chairman's Report for 1991

Memoirs of Becket Whitehead - Part 1

In search of the "Standedge Admiral"

The joining together of two old Saddleworth families in 1881

Searchlight positions around Sadleworth - Part 2

Letters

Newsletter, Winter 1991

Number 3, Autumn 1991

Cover: Cover of the 1880 rule book of the Saddleworth Friendly Family Burial Society

Carrhead, Carr, and Lee Farms in Pre-Victorian Times

New Accessions to the Archives, Part 2 - Records of the Saddleworth Friendly Family Burial Society

The Cinema in Saddleworth, Part 2 - The Palace, 1920-1959

Mrs Field's Relief Fund

Letters

Newsletter, Autumn 1991

Number 1, Spring 1991

Cover: Slackcote Mill, c. 1900

The Ragstone flint dagger

Textile mills in Saddleworth in 1886

Masonic meeting places in Saddleworth

Saddleworth records from the 17^th century

Water supply to Saddleworth

Letters

Index to Volume 20

Newsletter, Spring 1991

Volume 20

Number 4, Winter 1990/91

Cover: Adverisement for Electra Picture Palace, Woolroad

Chairman's Report for 1990

The Cinema in Saddleworth - Part 1

In memory of - Gravestone inscriptions at Heights Church

Governing a Saddleworth Village - The Uppermill Local Board

Pigeon Post in Saddleworth

Book Review: Rising from Reality

Letters

Newsletter, Winter 1990

Number 3, Autumn 1990

Cover: Saddleworth Workhouse, Running-hill

On how a Saddleworth Blacksmith was the seed from which the Toyota Motor Corporation company grew

A workhouse Christmas - some thoughts on the usefulness of newspapers as historical sources

Saddleworth datestones

Ashton, Satybridge and Dukinfield Waterworks - Part 4

Newsletter, Autumn 1990

Number 2, Summer 1990

Cover: Buildings by George Shaw: Christ Church, Friezland and vicarage, Friezland School.

Friezland School Memories

A Visit to Saddleworth Wakes in 1862

Ashton, Stalybridge and Dukinfield Waterworks - Part 3

The Origins of the Broadbents of Saddlworth

Saddleworth Datestones

Letters

Newsletter, Summer 1990

Number 1, Spring 1990

Cover: A group of volunteers, Uppermill, 1871

Chairman's Report

The 34^th West Yorkshire Vounteers Encampment at Saddleworth in 1871

Ashton, Stalybridge and Dukinfield Waterworks - Part 2

Letters

Index to Volume 19

Newsletter, Spring 1990

Volume 19

Number 4, Winter 1989

Cover: The Ashton, Stalybridge & Dukinfield Waterworks Committee outside the Moorcock, Greenfield, 1903

Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge and Dukinfield (District) Waterworks

Saddleworth Court Rolls

Extracts from the journal of John Nield, Part 2

Book review: St Anne's, Lydgate: The Story of a Pennine Parish: 1788-1988.

Letters

Newsletter, Winter 1989

Number 3, Autumn 1989

Cover: Drawing of the Saddleworth balloon accident of 1852

Extracts from the journal of John Nield

Early air travel over Saddleworth

Chronicles of Ye Shaw's of Shawe Hall Bank and Ye Radcliffe's of Radcliffe Tower

Some aspects of the distribution of the woollen and cotton industries in Saddleworth

Early motor vehicles in Saddleworth

Letters

Newsletter, Autumn, 1989

Number 2, Summer 1989

Cover: Advertisement for photographic studio, Harrop Green, c. 1870

Standedge Tunnel Water Troughs

A Photographic legacy - Early photography in Saddleworth

Peterloo

Saddleworth's Textile Mills - Bernard Barnes' research files

The Temple and Bowling Green Inn

Letters

Newsletter, Summer 1989

Number 1, Spring 1989

Cover: Aftermath of fire at Eagle Mill, Delph, 1906

Saddleworth Mill Fires

Letters from the Boer War

Saddleworth Mill Letter Headings

Railways and Leisure - Saddleworth Wakes

Yew Tree

St Chad and Saddleworth Church

Book Review: Saddleworth Buildings: A guide to the vernacular architecture of the parish of Saddleworth in the Pennines

Letters

Index to Volume 18

Newsletter, Spring 1989

Volume 18

Number 4, Winter 1988/89

Cover: Photo of early motorcar

Chairman's Report to the AGM

Cooking and Eating with the Romans at Castleshaw

Ammon Wrigley Learns a Lesson

The First American Woollen Mill - Part 2

On the Road in Edwardian Saddleworth

Archaeology North West 1988

Book Review: Signposts to the Past: Place Names and the History of England.

Letters

Newsletter, Winter 1988/89

Number 3, Autumn 1988

Cover: Johnny Mill, c. 1880

The navvymen and Navvy Mission at Castleshaw

Uppermill in the 19^th century - the economic and social structure of a Saddleworth village

A Delph mystery - the Delph to Hollinbank coal railway

Newsletter, Autumn 1988

Number 2, Summer 1988

Cover: Drawing of Stonebottom Mill (then Chambley's), Woolroad

'An old man with a grey beard and a night cap on' - the elderly John Knight

Woolroad and the Huddersfield Canal

Linsgreave Clough - a hunter-gatherer exploitation camp in the Central Pennines

A Saddleworth outing

Newsletter, Summer 1988

Number 1, Spring 1988

Cover: Children at Castleshaw Open Air School

Memories and highlights of the Castleshaw Valley

New finds at the Castleshaw Roman Forts

A godly preaching minister: John Wild, minister of Saddleworth, 1583-1592

Methodism in Saddleworth

Review: Religion in Industrial Society: the case of Oldham and Saddleworth, 1780-1865

Index to Volume 17

Newsletter, Spring 1988

Volume 17

Number 4, Winter 1987

Cover: Digglee from inclosure map c. 1770

Chairman's Report 1987

Greenfield Childhood

Book Review: Victorian Saddleworth

Common Arable Farming at Diglee

Newsletter, Winter 1987

Number 3, Autumn 1987

Cover: Steam wagon from Denshaw Vale Print Works

The Evidence for Prehistoric Activity in Greater Manchester

The Black Flood

Local Steamers

The Whitehead Family of Spring Creek

Letters

Book Review: The First World War 1914-18 Remembered by a Yorkshire Territorial

Obituary: Hervey, Baron Rhodes of Saddleworth

Newsletter, Autumn 1987

 

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