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Numerous original and photocopied photographs received by the society from various sources relating to the Old Vicarage and the Residents between 1930 and 1940.
1930's Old Vicarage drive (PRO/06/07)
1930's Mellor church, north side field belonging…

Handwritten and typed correspondence from people with memories / information requests and general notes relating to the Old Vicarage.
Handwritten letter from Erik Knussen from 2001 with a story of the "Ghost of Mellor Church"
Also photograph sent…

Numerous newspaper cuttings / handwritten notes on cards / handwritten pages / typed information and photocopied newspaper reports from various dates and newspapers relating to the Old Vicarage and Residents from 1920 - 2000.
2000 Tommy gun found…

Three page typed document from handwritten notes/jottings written by Ann Hearle. Typed in 2015 when she was the current resident.
Assorted information, research notes, jottings from various dates relating to the Old Vicarage

Correspondence (nine letters) 1963 - 1965, between Dr Roberts and Cheshire County Council with regard to the purchase of land for Mellor Primary School and access to it for mowing machines, etc.
Also site plan with relevant area outlined in red.

Photocopy of legal charge dated 1943 between Albert Stuart Knussen and George Birks Chell.
Miscellaneous correspondence and receipts :
1. Provision of installation of Telephone service 1946
2. Ernest Renshaw invoice for work carried out for…

Three typed transcripts and one photocopy of the original cutting, of newspaper articles from the High Peak Reporter giving information on the transformation of the Vicarage, referred to as the Old Parsonage, into a Children's Hospital in…

Letter dated 23 September 1999 from Ann Hearle requesting information on George Birks Chell, umbrella manufacturer of Manchester, with reply that no information could be found.
Letter from Gloucestershire County Council Librarian dated 13 October…

Typed Voters Lists for 1904 - 1945 (sixteen pages), held at Derbyshire Records Office Matlock.
Letter from Derbyshire County Council giving details of residents of the Old Vicarage for 1926 & 1927.
Photograph of Stuart Knussen, resident of the Old…

Solicitors Ransom & Hutton of Nottingham, correspondence from 1909 - 1913 regarding right of way dispute between Mr Eubank and Mr Chell.
For photograph displayed see PRO/06/015.

Photocopy of typed schedule of deeds and documents relating to the property known as The Old Vicarage from Halifax Building Society 1974.
Also twenty page photocopy of typed Abstract of Title for the same property dating from 1784 between T Chetham…

Invoice for Tree ring sampling, analysis and report on the Old Vicarage, Mellor 2000 also ground floor and first floor plan showing the various ages from pre 18 century to modern.

Photocopy of extract from Church Magazine from October 1948 written by Rev R H Simmons, VIcar. In it he gives information on the history of the Patronage of St Thomas's Mellor and includes the names of the Vicars of Mellor Church.

Three page typed document entitled "2lst October 1998 : Chronology of the Old Vicarage (site and house) Drought of 1996 and archaeological dig started 1998. 10,000 years of occupation on the Hill Top."
Entries from 1571 to 1999.

Typed 14 page draft document. Script for a talk given by Ann Hearle on 4th March 2005 at Hazel Grove on "The Old Vicarage, Mellor" giving history of the building and residents and explaining why, despite its name it had never been a vicarage.

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