Saddleworth Historical Society Bulletin
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© 2010 Saddleworth Historical Society and individual contributors
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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Saddleworth Historical Society Newsletter
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ReportThe 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
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Cover illustration: Inventory of Thomas Wrigley of Doctor House, 7 June 1718
Contents
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
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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
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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 2005Cover 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 2005Cover 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
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Volume 35
Number 1, Spring 2005Cover 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 1999Cover: 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 1998Number 3, Autumn 1998Cover: 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
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
Cover: Denshaw Vale Printworks, c. 1910The 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
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