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Volume 46 Number 4 2016

Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society

Volume 46 Number 4 2016

The Limekilns at Brownhill 89 Bob Gough

Being A Child In 1940s Greenfield 92 Karl Pritchard

Vice Chair’s Report To The AGM 12th Oct. 2016 105 Patricia Foster

Celebrations at Delph 108

Index to Volume 46 110 Alan Schofield

Cover Illustration: Jabez Bath, Chew Valley - Popular Picnic Spot. Saddleworth Museum Archive

©2016 Saddleworth Historical Society and individual contributors and creators of images.

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THE LIMEKILNS AT BROWNHILL

Bob Gough This article originally appeared in Pennine Link, the magazine of the Huddersfield Canal Society.1 It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author and the Society. There were thirty two locks on the west side of Huddersfield Narrow Canal and forty two on the east side. Historically they were referred to by their ordinal number and location. Individual names were acquired later and uniquely, three locks in Uppermill: Wade (21W), Dungebooth (22W) and Limekiln (23W), are clearly named in a list as part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company Plan (c.1927) of the Huddersfield Canals which accompanied a general description of their asset acquired from the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). The LNWR had acquired the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway Company who themselves had bought out the original Huddersfield Canal Company (HCC) who built the Narrow Canal. Limekiln Lock is of particular interest as there has been uncertainty as to the location of any associated kilns that would have occasioned the name.

Bob Gough Figure 1

As a source material, the HCC Minutes (1794-1843) provide a useful history. The earliest reference is from a meeting at the Globe Tavern, Ashton-u-Lyne on the 24th of June 1801 when it was ‘resolved that Mr Rooth be authorised to purchase on behalf of the Company a small piece of land belonging to Abraham Rhodes adjoining the Aquaduct above the twenty third lock in Saddleworth. And also two small pieces of Land left on each side of the Canal adjoining the above mentioned plot and belonging to John Platt of Dobcross And that Mr Rooth do cause a Limekiln to be erected in the best situation upon the said pieces of Land.’

1 Pennine Link, Huddersfield Canal Society, Issue 189, Spring 2015.

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The key to the ‘Farrar’ Estate Plan (1770), later copied by Joel Hawkyard in 1825,2 lists A. Rhodes land ownership in 1789 and coincidentally two plots, names Little and Great Kiln Wood, appear near to the land in question (Figure 1). Using the locations of various settlements and field boundaries, an attempt has been made to relate the present canal to this plan. Accepting the inherent errors, the estate boundary appears to be some distance from the aquaduct. Part of John Platt’s land is a significant distance away at Heathfields. Though he, and Abraham Rhodes, most likely had other property outside the Farrar Estate which is not mapped or listed in the index. Nonetheless, limekilns were built and in October 1811, it was ‘Resolved that Mr John Rooth be and is hereby directed and impowered (sic) to let the Limekilns that are built at Brownhill in Saddleworth to such person as will undertake the same on the following terms …’ with a reduction in rent proportionate to the quantity of lime burnt. Certainly the kilns were a significant landmark in the 1820s, when the trustees of the Standedge to Oldham Turnpike referred to establishing a toll house and gate ‘near the Lime Kiln at Brownhill’. (Quarter Sessions Order Book June 30th 1824 as quoted by Bernard Barnes in Passage through Time.)3 The ‘six inch’ Ordnance Survey (OS) map surveyed 1849-51 and published in 1854, fails to show any limekilns in the area and incidentally mis-names Lock 23W as ‘Lane Kiln Lock’!4 It is possible the kilns were relatively short lived and their remains of little significance to the map surveyors. Visitors to the site today will be impressed by the Uppermill Viaduct carrying the Manchester to Huddersfield railway over the valley. Ironically, it is this viaduct, built in 1849 by the LNWR, which offers further clues, albeit somewhat misleading. The Canal Society’s Trevor Ellis researching historic editions of the Huddersfield Chronicle, came across an article in the February 1863 issue, reporting a railway accident on the viaduct: ‘… When the train was about half-way across the viaduct, and going slowly, the front axle-tree of a waggon laden with salt broke, and suddenly stopped the waggons behind. Several of them were thrown off the rails against the battlement wall of the viaduct, nearest to Dobcross, and … the weight of the waggons harled (sic) down the massive wall for a distance of of about twelve yards into the valley, a height of 66 feet. The stones fortunately fell near to the old lime-kilns, and did no damage in their descent.’ Figure 2 is a sketch plan of the area under investigation. From the newspaper report it appears the stones fell to the western side of the viaduct and from its central region (marked ‘x’ in Figure 2). This suggest the limekilns were located North East of Den Lane and in the grounds of No 1 Mytholme. However, reference to an 1862 Deposited Plan and Register of the Standedge to Oldham Turnpike Trust, held at Wakefield Archives, clarifies the issue.5 The Trust proposed a branch road from Brownhill Bridge to Tamewater Bridge (what would become today’s Dobcross New Road) and their plan detailed the adjacent property owners who might be affected. Of significance are the plots outlined in green in Figure 2 and numbered 2, 7 and 10. An extract from the accompanying Register gives details as follows:

2 M, Buckley et al., Mapping Saddleworth II, Saddleworth Historical Society (SHS), 2010, p. 79. 3 B. Barnes, Passage through Time, SHS, 1981, p. 49. 4 See M. Buckley et al. Mapping Saddleworth, SHS, 2005, p. 57. 5 West Yorkshire Archive Service (Wakefield), QE20/1/1862/13.

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Plot Description Owners Occupiers 2. Wharf Land John Bradbury John Bradbury 7. Site of Old Lime Kilns LNWR Railway Company LNWR Railway Company and appertaining land 10. Site of Old Lime Kilns John Bradbury John Bradbury and appertaining land

Therefore, there were two separate sites for the ‘old limekilns’. According to a LNWR estate map (1905),6 the site (plots 2 & 10 in Figure 2) had been sold by the Railway company to John Bradbury; hence his listing as owner/occupier, and plot 7, leased to the Company.

Bob Gough Figure 2 In conclusion, the Huddersfield Canal Company, acquired land from Abraham Rhodes and John Platt, built limekilns on two sites at Brownhill by 1811. The kilns appear to be operating into the 1820s but for how many years after is unclear; certainly they seem to be disregarded during the 1849-51 OS six-inch survey. Today Plot 7 is the Brownhill Nature Garden where visitors may be intrigued by some overgrown stonework behind the compost bins, next to the canal bank! Plot 10 is some decidedly hummocky, overgrown, land below the viaduct near the electricity sub-station. Yet the naming of Lock 23W and the café remain as a testament to the limekilns at Brownhill in Saddleworth.

6 Manchester Central Library Archives, A/19/1/12.

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BEING A CHILD IN 1940s GREENFIELD

Karl Pritchard Born in 1941, it seems I was very ill with pneumonia as a small child and was baptised at home by the vicar of Christ Church, Friezland. My mother never tired of telling a story of how all I wanted was my Granny's cat. On telling the doctor about this it seems he said, "Well Jenny, let him have the cat, there's nothing more I can do for him." So, my Granny duly brought her cat up in a shopping bag and there he stayed on the bed with me. I do have a very vague memory of this and still remember his name was "Spot," then later, when he died I went with my Granddad to bury him near the dustbins at their house. I could still point out the place within 2 square yards. Right into old age my mother still maintained it was the cat that saved my life! During the war I used to sit in bed with my mother eating National Dried Milk with a spoon and hiding under the bed with her when the ’planes came over some nights. It seems people could tell the difference in the engine noise between British and German ’planes. It would be about this time she used to take me on walks up to Chew Valley past the paper mill where I was always fascinated by the buckets going around the gantry, dropping sludge onto a large settling area on the right just before the mill entrance. These were still being used to my knowledge in the late 1950s. I asked my cousin John who was a mechanic at the mill if he could give a more accurate date and he told me the buckets were still working up until about 1964. From this point Chew Brook downstream was badly polluted by effluent from the mill. Going upstream from the mill past the farm Jabez bath was a popular place, with people there in the summer swimming, having picnics and messing about in the brook. Lots of them were the ‘Oldhamers’ as we called them, coming up to Chew Valley at weekends. By the early 1960s however it lost its popularity and you had to be careful of broken glass. On the way back we sometimes saw the Italian prisoners who I think worked at Greenfield Mill. They were always friendly when we saw them at the bottom of the mill drive and used to give us chewing gum. One in particular, I remember, was called Carlo and he was seeing one of my mother’s friends. In fact my mother told me many years later the landlord had thrown the woman out for “Knocking about with an I-tie.” One of my earliest memories was when my father must have come on leave from the army and he brought some bars of Cadbury's peppermint cream chocolate home. I can still see in my mind all those bars perched on the mantelpiece. I also remember I ate too much and was sick. My father told me many years later that it was when he was on leave I started to get my first teeth through by chewing on the bolt of his army rifle. At the end of the war he brought home a .303 rifle that he sold, also a revolver with no bullets which again he told me years later was standard issue to women members of the German SS. I can remember playing with it on the pavement where we lived across from Greenfield railway station. I went in the house for some reason leaving it on the pavement but when I came out the gun had gone. Probably at the end of, or shortly after, the war I watched a convoy of smallish tanks going towards Uppermill over the bridge at Greenfield station. One of them partly demolished the wall onto the railway as it swung onto the left turn and was stuck partly over the railway. I remember having a pair of clogs when I would be about four or five years old. Although it is only a dim memory I was with my mother when she took them up to

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Walter Cox, the cobbler at Road End, to have some new irons put on the soles. At the age of four and a half I went to what was then Greenfield Council School on Shaw Street where on my first day I must have decided this was not for me so I was going home to my Granny’s. Alas! my escape was foiled and I didn’t even get to the end of Shaw Street before Malcolm Baines, one of the older boys was sent to bring me back. I remember this fairly clearly. I have very fond memories of my infants class teacher, Miss Schofield, who retired around 1950 and lived towards the Uppermill end of Carr Lane. I kept in touch with her into my late teenage years. She must have been the archetypal infant teacher who took us on what she called ‘Nature Walks’ in the spring and summer, collecting Horse Chestnut and Willow twigs when the buds came out. These would then be put into jam jars on the classroom window ledge where in the ensuing days they came into leaf. From Carr Lane a path runs up over a footbridge spanning the old railway line, on up the field coming out onto Kinders Lane. Almost at the end of this path was a small pond which has now gone. This was the ‘Nature Walk’ we enjoyed most and in the spring it was filled with frog-spawn, our favourite collectors’ item. This again was displayed around the classroom in jam jars where we would avidly check its progress and transformation into tadpoles. What happened to them after this stage is a mystery, I don’t ever remember us taking them back to their pond. Most afternoons Miss Schofield would read us a story, quite happy to let us put our heads on our desks and doze off. I sat next to a timid little girl called Jean who without fail would wee on her seat at this time of day, whereupon we would all try to be first in announcing, “Please Miss, Jean’s weed again.” Other times we would tirelessly re-enact the story of the Three Billy-Goats Gruff using a form as the bridge under which lived some kind of monster. I was often one of the three goats who wanted to cross the bridge to greener grass on the other side of the stream but the Troll who lived under the bridge was out to eat them. Philip Brooks who’s mother had the newsagent’s shop just lower down from the railway pub invariably played the part of the Troll. Anyway, it did have a happy ending (for the goats at least) because the largest billy-goat eventually pokes out the Troll’s eyes with his horns, crushes him to bits, throws the remains back into the water and the three goats live happily ever after. I wonder what modern-day parents would think of four and five year-olds acting out a story where a monster lies in wait to leap out from under a bridge, grab innocent goats and devour them, then ends up having his eyes gouged out? On a more sombre note she had a leather strap hanging on a hook at the side of her high desk, prominently displayed for all to see. I never knew it to be used but there it was - a deterrent for would-be infant miscreants. The only person I recall being punished was a very peevish little girl called Christine who always appeared to be either having a tantrum or scowling. One day Miss Schofield must have had enough and promptly sat her in the waste paper basket then spun her round. I do remember Christine crying when we all laughed at her but I don’t think her petulant behaviour ever improved. Moving up into the next class our education began in earnest with a Miss Laycock and it was here we could begin to use pens. They were very basic things like thin pencils with a nib on the end to dip into our inkwells. This was a great step we all aspired to and could only achieve once we could write clearly with a pencil. If you made a mess you were demoted to pencil again! By this time Jean had stopped weeing on her seat but continued to be a very timid girl throughout her days at the school.

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Miss Laycock always wore a smock and was never a particularly kind woman. On one occasion she made me go to the front of the class to inspect what I had in my pockets but then changed her mind, expressing distaste at what she might find there if she searched my dirty clothes. Even at that age I felt very degraded, then not too long afterwards the Headmaster, Mr. Lewis, came into our class one morning to tell us Miss Laycock would not be teaching us any more as she had died in the night. I suppose I should have felt sad about this revelation but all I remember feeling was relief and that it served her right! The next class up was ruled over by Miss Stott who played the piano for morning assembly. I think her musical repertoire must have been pretty limited because she always seemed to play ‘In an English Country Garden’ at the end of assembly. She was a nasty horrible woman who all the children were afraid of, and she had her favourites, particularly a little girl who lived near to her at Lydgate. Mr. Lewis, the Headmaster, taught the top class and little other than his name remains in my memory. He was succeeded by Mr. Clayton who could be a mean hand with the cane when it was called for. I had first-hand - or rather two handed - experience of this, but only once, and only one whack one each hand. That was quite enough for me, I think I must have either learned or perhaps I made sure I was never caught after that. I would be about ten years old at the time and can still remember vividly the stinging pain across the palms of my hands and feeling sick, but have no memory of what I and my fellow sufferers had been up to. I think there were three of us and we had to line up outside his office then go in one at a time whilst the other two, hearing the swish of the cane and ensuing squeals of anguish, suffered the anticipation of what was to come. Other memories of the school include the annual Christmas parties but no specific details, though I do recall that on at least one occasion boxes of apples and oranges were delivered and we were given one of each. Maybe this had something to do with food rationing and the scarcity of these luxury items. Every day at half past twelve a ‘Double Header’ goods train would come hurtling along the track overlooking the playground going towards Huddersfield. We must have watched it many times because I can still remember the number of the first of the two engines was 45701 and the name was ‘Conqueror.’ Can’t remember the number of the second engine, the drivers often used to wave to us.

photo by Coopers, courtesy of Mark A. Hoofe Jubilee Class 45701 Conqueror built 1936 for express passenger duties seen at Eccles Junction in June 1956

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Like all children I had a hero - Weston Holmes who was lived at the farm by the lock at the far end of Wellington Road. He had a big scar on his cheek from where he had been bitten by a dog when he was small and lived in Wales. One day I scratched my face on brambles but would not let my Gran clean it up because I wanted a scar just like Weston. He was a year or maybe two years older than me and I always felt rather special because he used to let me go down to the farm to play with him. Nobody messed with Weston and having him for a friend ensured I never got bullied! My cousin Shirley was in the same class as Weston and decided at one point she loved him. She must have told several of her friends because when word got back to him he got her in the boys’ toilets, gave her a good hiding and that was the end of that love affair. At the bottom end of the playground was a low wall which backed onto the houses across the road from Greenbridge Lane. There was a well in the garden just over the wall from the road with some steps going down to it and we would stand in the playground to wait for an old lady coming out of her back door. Having a well we were convinced she must be a witch and would shout to her but she always ignored us. So, one day I must have been so excited at seeing her that I fell over the wall and was terrified when she ‘Got me.’ She took me in her house, cleaned up my grazes and let me go. I think she may have given me a biscuit as well and I can still remember how guilty I felt for having called her a witch. I suppose the plus side to the story is that from then on she had one less tormenter. In retrospect, despite the strictness of teachers, the threat of the cane and absolute obedience, (at least while in school) those were happy times. Even outside school a slap round the ear from neighbours as well as parents following some actual or planned misdemeanour, or the giving of cheek was an accepted part of life and shrugged off. Out of school we spent many hours playing on and around the old tip which was in the large area behind the post office. What an adventure area this was. Access was by way of Wilson Street at the side of the post office and before the tip itself were a number of mounds of what I seem to remember as coal dust. These had been compressed into a series of tracks and loops made over a period of time by those kids who were lucky enough to have bikes. The rest of us had to make do with running round up and down the slopes and around the loops. Further along was the edge of the tip and a drop down to a big flat area which went almost over to the back of the chip shop, then was bordered on the south side by a large sewer pipe. Rather than climb down the tip with all its tin cans, debris and broken glass it was easier to get to by going around the road and up the side of the chip shop. The whole area was completely covered to some depth with what must have been hundreds and hundreds of tons of startlingly white lime in which shallow pools had formed. It was quite safe and solid to walk on but despite digging probably a foot down we never got to the bottom of it. I never thought to ask anyone where it had all come from, perhaps because I always went home to a telling off from my Gran for having my shoes caked in the glutinous white mess. It was not until more than forty years later I spoke to an old man who said it was all brought there in years past from Frenches Dyeworks (Clare’s) when lime was used for bleaching cloth. At this time there was also a man who had a hut at the corner of this area near the tennis courts where he chopped wood to make bundles of firewood. I don’t know if this was a full-time job or something to make extra money. The area was later used for the industrial unit ‘Lab Thermal’ and the whole of that area is now heavily fenced off, the only bit remaining is the raised part which backs onto the stream and the new houses which cover what was then a meadow. As I recall this raised part was just compressed ash which had been tipped over the years. This area of the old tip was known to us

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kids a the ‘Jungle’ and was covered in bushes and small trees, mainly Elderberry. It was around this area we made bows and arrows, making the arrows from dead nettle stems which were invariably straight but too light to go very far. Another favourite place to play when the nights were getting longer was around the gas light at the end of the row of houses across from the Post Office - Hide and Seek, etc. Back then it was completely safe to play out after dark, and one hardly needed to look for traffic before crossing Chew Valley Road. Inevitably children have accidents of one kind or another. One thing that always sticks clearly in my mind was the common treatment of thorn and splinter injuries that went septic. Some slices of household soap would be put on a piece of rag along with some sugar, then bandaged over the injury for a day or so to ‘draw out’ the offending splinter or whatever – it always worked and I can still remember the gritty feel of the sugar against my skin. Greenfield chip shop was in the same place as the present one but was a simple wooden hut with a small partitioned room behind the counter where potatoes were peeled and fish prepared. It was always known as ‘Chippy Bill’s.’ On entering the counter was to the left with a couple of forms against the opposite wall whilst a table against the other wall was usually piled high with boxes of dripping, soft drinks and parcels of newspaper. My earliest memory regarding price was that a bag of chips was 3d in old money (1¼p in today’s money). The fish and chips were cooked in dripping which made much better chips than the cooking oil used now. It cooked at a higher temperature and the chips were also more crisp and brown than today’s limp anaemic-looking ones. I still use dripping to this day and Saddleworth Museum Archive when I make chips for visitors I Chippy Bill’s am often asked how I make them taste so good. When I tell them I use dripping one or two have come back with, “But animal fats are bad for you.” My answer is, “Bad for you or not you’ve not left any on your plate.” My Gran used to send me to the chip shop a couple of times a week to get her a fried fish which she then always put on a plate to be eaten cold some hours later. She used to say it was more tasty when it had gone cold. On the days she sent me to the chippy I invariably also had to call at what she called the Co-op Café for a large unsliced loaf and some custard tarts or icing buns. I never knew why she called it this because it was simply the bakery attached to the side of what was the Co-op at the corner of Chew Valley road and Greenbridge Lane.

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Going to the Co-op for the weekly ‘Buying-In’ always entailed the taking of the potato bag in addition to the ordinary shopping bag. This was because potatoes in those days were not washed and packed in polythene as they are now, they were dirty and came from large sacks. Sometimes I used to go along with my Gran to the Co-op for the weekly ritual of her ‘Buying-In’ and this could be quite a lengthy business. Wilfred who ran the shop would take the list and methodically get each item from the long shelves behind the counter using a step-ladder for the items on the higher shelves. ‘Best Butter’ and cheese were cut off big blocks, weighed, then expertly wrapped in greaseproof paper. Bacon was always cut freshly and in the background was the smell of freshly- ground coffee. Next came the adding up, always done on a piece of paper then the subsequent issuing of a ‘Divi’ slip with the customer’s number writ- Saddleworth Museum Archive ten onto it then torn from a large book Serving customer at Chippy Bill’s of perforated duplicate slips - I think they were pink, or were they green? I forget how much dividend was paid for every pound spent but my Gran always saved it up for Christmas to get luxury items. This must have been a very welcome windfall at times such as this. Even for some years after she died, through sheer habit, I always gave her divvy number, Greenfield 1244, if I went into that or any other Co-op.

Saddleworth Museum Archive Greenfield Co-op

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My Gran never had a washing machine, instead there was a thing she called a ‘Set Pot’ heated by a gas ring underneath which the clothes went in to be stewed for whatever length of time, then she used the posser to squeeze and move them about. When they came out they were rinsed, then rinsed again in another tub to which she swished about a ‘Dolly Blue’, an optical whitener for sheets and things. I often used to turn the mangle for her and remember it had big tree trunk sized rollers. All this was done in the cellar. She also had a couple of flat irons, one being used whilst the other sat on the fire grate heating up. Like so many others my Gran did a lot of cooking in the oven which was heated by the fire. Cheese dip was my favourite whilst cowheel stew was about the only thing I hated. When I think back I always see it as a rather tasteless glutinous Harrison Family Collection mess which made me feel Fire, Oven, et al - Black Leaded Kitchen Range sick just looking at it. At the other side of the fire grate was a built-in tank for heating water - no hot water on tap! Then of course there was the weekly or fortnightly black-leading of the whole fireplace. Red Cardinal polish was used on the part of the flagged floor not covered by carpet.

Web Site Dolly Blue to keep clothes white and a Donkey Stone to keep doorsteps white

Every so often the Rag and Bone man came around with a horse and cart calling as he went along. My Gran used to take out odd bits of clothing or an old pan to swap for Donkey stones which were then used on the front step by most people. It seemed to be an outward show that if you kept the step looking nice it reflected well on the cleanliness of the inside of your house. Even in the early 1970s some people still used Donkey stones.

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Now and then an Indian man wearing a turban came around carrying a suitcase with various things to sell. This was quite an event for us children because it was the only time we ever saw a foreigner in the village. My cousins, Shirley and John, thought they were very posh when they moved into one of the new council houses on Warlow Drive where they had tile fireplaces AND a bathroom with an inside toilet. Many people in my childhood had outside toilets even into the late 1960s and it was a matter of pride to keep them scrupulously clean. They were always whitewashed inside and on a nail behind the door were hung sheets of newspaper - In my Gran’s toilet it was usually the Green Final torn into squares. I can still remember as a child sitting on that toilet with the door open, looking up at the stars, so it was probably summer time. She also had a ‘po’ under the bed and I remember in vivid detail getting out of bed on one occasion and putting my foot into the cold contents. Some of the houses up around Greenfield station still had the old tippler toilets which would have been the end of any child unlucky enough to fall into because they were quite deep. Death was treated in a very different way than it is today and I’m sure more people must have died at home and were kept there until the funeral. I never had the experience of someone in my family dying but when neighbours died it was the done thing for people to go into the house to look at them as they lay in state in the open coffin - children included. Whenever I picture the scene the coffin always seemed to be perched on the sideboard and we children got lifted up and thrust in to kiss them goodbye. It happened to me several times and it never bothered me, it was just the norm.

Web Site Some of the foodstuffs of the times, Karl having being fed with spoonfulls of dried milk! Casting my mind back to my childhood days there were quite a number of shops here in Greenfield: There was a derelict shop directly across the road from Greenfield station by the old billboards, a small part of which can just be seen at the left of a photograph hanging in the Railway pub. I seem to remember it as a wooden structure but I know it was on some kind of concrete foundation that was pebble-dashed - The Paper shop next to the Railway pub up across the road from the station (a little more about this shop later) - A small but very good Sweet shop on the corner of the hairpin bend (Mrs Roland’s) - A small house/shop half way down Shaw Hall Bank Road (Miss Fry’s) where you could buy fishing nets for 3d and small sticks of very strong spanish for 1/2d - A small house/shop at the bottom of Queensway on Wellington Road - Iredale’s bakery next to the toll house which did a roaring trade with orders from Knoll Spinning Company and Hartley’s at lunchtimes, you could even sit down to a meal in there - A small house/shop which was the end house directly opposite the Wellington pub - Wilfred’s Co-op with the Co-op bakery down the side of it - The butcher’s hut next to the Conservative Club - Baum’s electrical shop - Wisendens model shop - The paper shop - Sweet shop - Duckworth’s grocer’s shop where I

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remember my Mother buying the first loaf of sliced bread I had ever seen - Crowther’s butchers with the greengrocer’s between that and the chemist - Green- wood’s bakery which must have been a goldmine when Kinders and Bentfield Mills were working, and like Iredale’s you could sit down to a meal there - South’s butchers - Walter Cox’s cobbler’s shop, then another shop just up Kinders Lane half of which was a greengrocer’s, the other half fresh fish. Going along towards the Clarence Hotel were two Co-op stores across the road from each other, one of which sold toys and clothes. Further along at the bottom of Central Avenue was a small house/shop, then another house/shop on Manchester Road between the Clarence and the river bridge - The Co-op at Bockin, then across the road from Bockin Mill a grocer’s shop and a greengrocer’s next door to each other, then finally the paper shop and a grocer’s shop at Dacres. There was another place you could buy bits of things, and this was the side window which was virtually at ground level at Royal George Cottage in the mill yard. A shop well known to me was the paper shop near Greenfield station owned by Dorothy Brooks, the mother of my friend Philip. I always went to his birthday party but invariably he would get sent to bed at some point and the party was over. As sweets and chocolate were rationed we got very little, and even then there was not always the money to buy it. Sweets or chocolate were at best a weekly treat. The shop window however was a source of fascination to me because it was well laid out with bars of chocolate, packets of sweets and box after box of chocolates. Only problem was they were all dummies, the chocolate bars containing only a piece of wood cut in the shape of a chocolate bar. When she eventually sold the shop Dorothy gave us several big boxes of real chocolates. They had been there so long under the counter that the chocolates were a whitish colour - we didn’t care, it was free chocolate, lots of it, and it was good. Walter used to come around delivering milk from his horse and cart - you could even go out with a jug and he would measure it out from the churn with a ladle. It caused us kids some merriment the day one of his milk churns fell off the cart just below Mrs. Rowland’s shop on Station Brow and there was milk cascading down the road. The Railway pub used to often have rabbit shows some weekends and these were held in an upstairs room accessed by the outside steps at the side of the pub. Then what is now the first house up from the pub was a one-man basket and skip-making business. Saturday mornings my Granddad would send me up to the smithy at the bottom of Station Brow with the accumulator battery from the radio to change it for a newly charged one. I do remember it was quite heavy to carry with having all the lead inside it and I wonder how today’s health and safety would react nowadays to a small boy walking along the road with a glass accumulator filled with sulphuric acid. Talking of the radio, when my Granddad finally got a new one which ran on mains power I still have a clear memory of the radio having to be covered up if there was any thunder, and the plug pulled out of the socket in case the lightening came down the cable and blew up the radio. If we kids wanted something to eat we would run in to get a ‘Jam Butty’ and go running out to play again. One of my Gran’s regular sayings was, “If you’ve got a warm fire and a bit of something in your belly you won’t come to no harm.” Unlike us children who got new clothes at Whitsuntide each year I never knew my Gran to have any new clothes. I clearly recall going with her to a jumble sale at the parish hall next to Friezland Church so she could get some shoes, a cardigan and maybe a frock. Later, as a teenager I used to buy her new slippers for Christmas.

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Pritchard Family Collection Mother, Jane and Granddad and Granny, Robert and Ada Halliwell

At this time there were a number of mill chimneys in Greenfield, the largest of which were at Wellington Mills, Frenches Dyeworks, Bentfield Mill, Tanners, and Greenfield Mill, so we did have our fair share of pollution. I can recall as a child standing on the driveway at Frenches Dyeworks watching as the chimney at Knoll was being demolished brick by brick. Some of the bricks can still be seen in the river where the Tesco supermarket is now. There were also a good many fewer houses, the council houses on Carr Lane were not yet built and the track, as it was then, always seemed to be muddy with the farm about half way along. Queensway was just a sloping field that was always marshy so we never bothered playing there. The lead up to Bonfire night began weeks before November 5th with different groups of kids making trips all around the village collecting wood, old skips from the mills, discarded furniture and anything else we could lay our hands on to start building up the bonfire. It wasn’t unknown to go raiding other bonfires but that was accepted as part of the fun. Maybe a couple of weeks before the big day groups of us would go around in our own area at night ‘Cob-Coaling’. This involved a knock at someone’s door then when it was opened launching into the song:- We come a cob-coalin’ fer bonfire time, yer coal or yer money we ‘ope you’ll provide. If yu give us owt we’ll steal nowt, farewell and goodbye And we’ll not come again ‘till next bonfire time. There was a second verse that went: Down in yon cellar therz nowt nobbert bugs, Thiv etten mi stockings and parted mi clogs. We’ll get a sharp knife and chop their yeds off, And ‘av a good supper of bugs yeds and broth.

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This last verse was not often sung, as a penny or two was thrust at us (or not) and the door closed before we could launch into the second verse. The best tip we ever had was one year when we went to Sir Gilbert Tanner’s house near the Farrars Arms and got 2 shillings! We belonged to the group of kids who had our bonfire at the far end of Wharf Cottages at the side of the canal and just past the barn which has now been converted into a house. When the big night finally arrived most of the parents came to the respective bonfires and there was a definite community spirit involved at each one of them. Potatoes would be brought for roasting in the fire - they were always nearly raw but always tasted good. Several huge potato pies always appeared along with Parkin and Treacle Toffee, all made by the various mothers. Fireworks and sparklers were very much in evidence, adults and children lighting them with no apparent planning or worries about safety yet I never recall anyone, adult or child getting burned or injured in any way. The following day some of us collected the empty fireworks cases then for a short time they would be bartered with other kids for swap items. Winter was a time we loved once the snow arrived. I think we all regularly got chilblains after spending hours having snowball fights and sledging even after it went dark The winter of 1947 was one of those that went on record as being very bad. The roads were blocked and the council workmen had dug out the footpaths but the roads were not cleared. This was the year my father made me a sledge, it even had metal runners on. I can't have had it very long before even the trains stopped running, consequently there was no coal supply, and yes, my sledge was one of the first things to be chopped up to burn. I loved that sledge for the short time I had it. At that time there was a field across from Wellington Mill with a small hill where we used to sledge in winter. The field was lower than the level of Chew Valley road and often got very waterlogged when the adjoining river was high. There are houses there now. The field was filled in with rubble and bricks which came from Wellington Mill following a fire in 1955. I think it may have been the winter of 1947 when there was very thick ice on the canal and quite a lot of people, we kids included, were skating about on the ice right in front of Wharf cottages. My Granny lived round the back of the first house on Chew Valley Road across from Wellington Road and there was a glacial boulder similar to, but smaller than the one in the church grounds at St. John's Church Mossley. I don't know what became of it but there is also one at Stamford Park in Ashton. The old toll gate we used to swing on was also still in place over the road from the toll house which is still there in 2015 but the gate across the road is long gone. In August 1949 a ’plane crashed at Indian's Head up Chew Valley. Being children our first though was we might find some threepenny bits or even shillings scattered around, so off we all went after tea to see what fortunes lay around waiting to be gathered up! When we got to the wood below the outcrop we were turned back by the police so never got to find any cash let alone see the crash. The ’plane was a Dakota DC3 with three crew and twenty-seven passengers which crashed into the outcrop on its way from Belfast to Manchester. Five year old Stephen Evans was pulled from the wreck alive by two farmers and carried down by two boy scouts who had been camping. Stephen's mother, father and baby brother were all killed. In the 1960s there was apparently an article in the Oldham Chronicle relating he had been killed when he fell in front of a train on the London underground, but I don't know if this is true. We often played at Frenches Dyeworks (Joseph Clare’s) which was situated below Greenfield station between the canal and river. High quality brocades were bleached

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and dyed there and a faint smell of acetic acid always hung over the place. My Granddad worked there for many years and I would often wait for him at the bridge over the river when he finished work at half past five. He always took a basin wrapped in a square of red cloth knotted at the top with his dinner in to heat up at work. There was a small dam or collecting pond for all the effluent from the mill and this was discharged into the river in the evenings which then took on the colour of whatever dye had been predominant on that day. Other than evenings the river was clean enough and we spent many happy hours playing in and around it almost as far as where it joins Chew Brook which was always a dirty brown, had a strong chemical smell and was covered with foam and scum from Greenfield Mill and Bentfield Dyeworks. That was one place definitely not fit to play in all the way back up to the paper mill. How Fletchers got away with the pollution they poured into Chew Brook for years God only knows.

Saddleworth Museum Archive Palace Theatre in 1936, Uppermill Uppermill had its own cinema, the Palace, and it was a ½d on the bus from Greenfield station to Uppermill square. My father went there to see ‘King Kong’ which had the old ‘H’ certificate. This meant you had to be 16 to see it, so that let me out. My mother used to take me to Uppermill pictures sometimes. We would usually walk there from Greenfield and this reminds me of one such visit that never materialised. One night as we were passing Wade lock we had to stop and watch as some men were dragging the lock to retrieve a woman who had either fallen in or thrown herself in. I do remember that in conversation with other grown-ups the woman was thought to be epileptic. Speaking of Uppermill, on the left hand side of Bridge Street just before the bridge over the river, part of a building backing onto the Alexandra mill had an archway in which was housed an aeroplane. My mother used to lift me up so I could turn the propeller. I always thought it was perhaps a ’plane that had come down during the war but many years later I was told it had belonged to some local man. On Saturday afternoons the children’s matinee at the Pavilion cinema in Mossley was the place to be, calling first, if we had enough money, at the chemists on the corner to get a tin of Horlicks tablets before going in to make life a misery for Henry the

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manager who fought a constantly losing battle going from one side of the cinema to the other shining his torch and shouting at us to be quiet. Road End Fair was still a big thing at this time with lots of stalls and people milling about. What sticks in my mind most is that we kids always got water pistols and it was so easy to fill them up from the stream that is still there. The Whit Walks were also an important date in the calendar. In addition to the walks it was the time of year when just about all the kids got new clothes. In the morning we had to go to visit the neighbours who would then inspect us and give us a few pennies. The girls had a more thorough inspection than us boys because the old ladies would always lift their frocks up to see if they also had new knickers as well. It has always remained something of a mystery to me what happened to the frilly frocks the girls wore because I’m sure they would have had no functional use after Whit. One year in particular sticks in my mind when my sister who would be about four years old at the time had been dressed for the walks and was cutting patterns out of her new frock whilst my mother was getting my brother ready. I can’t remember what happened next but there must have been hell to play. I do seem to remember that after the walks there were games and a tea set out for the children in the field to the left of the bridge on Oak View Road. Despite the privations of the time - rationing - no central heating - none of the gadgets and luxuries we take for granted today I look back with nostalgia to those times, but of course we were children with few cares or worries, and I never remember going to bed hungry. I wonder if today’s kids will look back in sixty years time with the same nostalgia to the Greenfield of their childhood - I think they will.

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VICE CHAIR’S REPORT TO THE AGM, 12th OCT. 2016

Patricia Foster This has been a difficult year for the society. However, progress has been made. We were saddened to receive the resignation of Mike Buckley, our Chairman, just before Christmas. He had been our chairman for over ten years and we pay tribute to the work he has done for the Society over the years. We hope he will still continue to help and advise on matters pertaining to local history in the future. After Christmas, the St Chad’s Old Yard Monumental Inscriptions book was eventually ready to deliver. We all appreciated this as it seemed to have been a long wait, but there was trouble with the printers. The book has been well received, and we hope to produce similar works in the future, that are in the pipeline at present. However, with the advent of computers and the launch of our new website, maybe some publications could appear on there. We are told by some people that is the ‘way forward’. We would be interested in members views on this matter. We have to say “goodbye” to Jim Carr. He will still be a member, I hope, for many years to come, but sadly he has retired from the committee. He joined the society in 1979, becoming a committee member in 1982. He was chairman from 1989 to 2004. He has been the link between the Historical Society and the Friends of Castleshaw. We thank him for all his help and support. I regarded him as our ‘elder statesman’ and appreciated his wisdom and advice. Also leaving the committee, but still a society member is Alison Wild. She has horrendous personal problems at present as her husband is seriously ill. We miss her contribution to the society as Family Historian. She no longer does her Family History Newsletter, which used to accompany the Newsletter and Bulletin. Also, for a number of years many of you will remember her as Membership Secretary. We thank her for her contributions to our society. You may be interested to know that she has recently produced a book on Mossley Churches and Schools. This year was more difficult because we could not use the museum, as a venue for our talks and meetings, due to the alterations being carried out. We were grateful however to have use of Dobcross Band Club. Sandy Lane Church, Dobcross and eventually, Uppermill Conservative Club. We thank Tony Wheldon in helping with arrangements at the final venue. This also made refreshment production more difficult, although at certain venues, members enjoyed access to the bar. I would like to pay tribute to the people who helped making teas and coffees. I name particularly Christine Barrow, Audrey Carr and Meg Langton. I will also thank David Harrison and Charles Baumann who always made sure we had screen and laptop provision for our speakers. Charles also did an excellent job in advertising our talks. Again because there was no Museum, this affected our book sales. The Museum sell our books in their shop and also we sell them sometimes at the talks. It proved too hard a task to transport books around to the different venues. We hope book sales will rise this year with the re-opening of the Museum but also having the web-site up and running. They can now be purchased on there. The talks this year have been of an excellent standard and grateful thanks goes out to Victor Khadem who arranged the speakers. In January we heard from Dr Livi Michael about the Tudor Connection. The Plantagenet and Tudor period is a time in History, I personally have great interest in. We love hearing about Margaret Beaufort and all her contemporaries. We anticipate with pleasure another talk from her scheduled for the

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New Year. We then heard about Richard Oastler and Yorkshire Slavery by Dr John Hargreaves. We next enjoyed hearing about The Rise and Fall of Edmund Buckley by Julian Hunt. In this it was interesting to see that the former owner of Grotton Hall and MP, embezzled funds, left to other members of his family by his father, which led to his downfall. We enjoyed the excellent talk about the Norman Conquest of Yorkshire, by Dr Paul Dalton. This related how northerners caused more problems for the Normans than those people living further south. The Cotton Famine “Distress in Lancashire” told what difficulties the American Civil War caused to the Lancashire textile industry, as Abraham Lincoln’s blockade drastically curtailed cotton supplies. It was a stimulating knowledgeable talk by Dr David Brown. Margaret Lynch told us about Justice in 13th Century Lancashire and the Plea Roll. It was interesting to see how law cases were documented in those time. However the highlight of the year was the Bernard Barnes Memorial Lecture by Prof. Caroline Wilkinson. We entered into the interesting world of forensic science and were told how the appearance of Richard III was build up from the skull remains found in the Leicester car park. Finally, in September, Victor Khadem entertained us by telling us about the eighteenth century singer Sarah Harrop, who came from this area. Most of us had never heard about her before and didn’t know much about Hey Chapel. Again it was another enlightened and interesting talk. We have two more talks to look forward to in November. One will be about Diggle, on 9th November. This will be at the Diggle Band Club, as it is the annual village talk. The other will be at the Museum, on 30th November, by Michael Fox, and will be about Street Lamps and Lighting in Saddleworth from 1850 to 1930. Neil Barrow and Ivan Foster have been the backbones of the Society this year, and I would like to thank them for all their hard work. Neil is Treasurer, helps with the Bulletin and many other rolls. Ivan is Membership Secretary, and looks after Projects . Ivan tries to keep you all updated about forthcoming events. David Harrison does an excellent job as Minutes Secretary and Bulletin editing. We hope to have an Hon Secretary after tonight who will perhaps take on some of the tasks undertaken by the Treasurer and Membership Secretary at present. The Saddleworth Historical Society Website was launched in June thanks to work by Neil Barrow, Robert Scott and Ivan Foster. When email addresses have been provided, the members have access to the members only areas. Good reports about the website have been received from members, although it did have some initial teething problems. There are still many records to be uploaded and this will take time to complete. There are now History and Family History Forums, which replace the Topica site we lost some time ago. Please use them. The membership level has dropped again this year to 214. There are some members who pay their subscriptions late, and thus costs the society money. We have had some new members join, however, since we set up the new website. Many of the current projects are drawing to a close, but hope the new committee will look to new projects in the future. Thank you especially to Ian Lawton for transcribing marriages and Maurice Reid for help with extra clearing of the Heights graveyard.

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Thank you to Neil for his work with the DNA project, which will be very long term. Thank you also to Robert for his work in recording the listed buildings. This will be far more detailed and more current to that found elsewhere on line. I thank the group who edit the Bulletin for their good work. The Bulletin maintains the usual high standard, however, the latest is behind schedule in part because of extra work having to be done in producing the new constitution. We hope to be able to rectify that after the meeting today. It was decided this year we needed to update the constitution. Our new constitution was out of date to Charity Commission rules. I would like to thank all those involved in this endeavour, and acknowledge particularly Neil Barrow, Eve Scott and Alan Schofield. I would like to pay tribute to the retiring committee: Neil Barrow, Charles Baumann, Jim Carr, Ivan Foster, David Harrison, Victor Khadem, Meg Langton, Robert Scott, and Alison Wild (retired in August) for all their hard work this year. Can you please stand, so that the members can see who you are. We have encouraged new people to apply for the committee this year and some excellent candidates have come forward. I hope with the enthusiasm of the new committee the society will go on from strength to strength. Thank you for your support through this difficult year. Patricia Foster 12th October 2016

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CELEBRATIONS AT DELPH

Delph rejoices at King George III’s Recovery from “Madness”, 1789 March 27th 1789 (Friday). The Inhabitants of Delph in Saddleworth & its vicinity testified their joy on his Majesty’s recovery by a general rejoicing. An ox was roasted whole, and the bellman gave notice for all the poor people to attend at Six o’clock in the evening, when it was cut up on a stage erected for that purpose, and divided equally amongst them according to their families, with a sufficient quantity of bread. At eight o’clock a general illumination took place, when every house endeavoured to excel each other in brilliance and grandeur. St Thomas’s Chapel, and Dissenting and Methodist meeting houses were all grandly illuminated.1

Web site Medal Struck to celebrate the King’s Recovery

Mike Buckley Collection Building a Bonfire to Celebrate Edward VII’s Coronation, 1902

1 G. Shaw, Annals of Oldham, Vol. 3, (Oldham, c.1906), p. 99.

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Mike Buckley Collection The Committee lead the celebrations of the Co-op’s 50th Anniversary, 1909

Mike Buckley Collection Community Singing to Celebrate the Coronation of George V, 1911

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INDEX TO VOLUME 46

Alan Schofield Number 1 pages 1-28 Number 2 pages 29-58 Number 3 pages 59-88 Number 4 pages 89-118 Illustrations, maps, photographs, graphs etc. are indicated by lower case i Article & book Titles, in italics

A Benghazi: 32 A Saddleworth Commemorative Jug: Mike Buckley 72-77 POW camp 35 Abels Lane, Church Road, Uppermill 29 Bentfield Mills 100 Able Seaman, Torpedo Man 86 Bentley, John, clothier, Boarshurst 70 Ackworth, Humphrey Veilly, land holding 13 Bentley, Margaret, Boarshurst 70 advowsons, right to appoint rector 14 Billboards 99 Agbrigg, jury 4 Bingl, William 18 air raid siren, Manchester 31 Bingley estate, Waleys 18 Albermale, earl, Pocklington 18 Birch, Ernest, Southport 65 Alexandra Mill, aeroplane 103 Bishop Auckland drill training camp 31 Alexandria 32 Bishop of Chester, seal 59 Allied soldiers repatriated 45 black-leading 98 Almondbury, Robert, rector of 21 Blackshaw, Mr., Headmaster, Denshaw 80 amercements, roll 4 Blenheim Light Bomber 83 anti-tank field gun 33 Boardman, Amelis nee Jones Oldham 49 Appeal extract of William of Dagenhal cover 1i Boardman, James, Tpr 49 Appeal of William of Dagenhal 1257 24, 25i, 26-28 Boardman, John Ernest & Elizabeth nee Walmsley 49 appeals, process 3 Boarshurst 70, 72, 73 Armistice signed with Italy 41 Boarshurst Farm, 1770 manor map 73 army medical, Manchester 31 Bockin Mill, grocers 100 Ashton & Stalybridge Corporation,Waterworks Act 1835 64 Bocky, Adam 7, 8, 9, 18 Ashton-under-Lyne 52, 63, 64, 70 Bollington, lease 63 Ashurst, May nee Harris, Waterhead 49 Bolton 53 Ashurst, Melling Thomas & Annie nee Richards, Oldham 49 Bombing of Italian cities 41 Ashurst, Tom, Pte 49 Bonfire night: ‘Cob-Coaling’ assistant slitterman, Greenfield Mill 31 fireworks, ember roast potatoes, parkin, treacle toffee 102 Australian troops, North Africa 32 Booth, Aked & Jane, nee Pearson, Cheshire 49 Axis Africa campaign 32 Booth, Robert John Basil, Pte 49 Border Regt. see Military units B Bowden Cheshire 60, 66, 70, 71 bail, grant of 3 Bower, Ann, Sarah 71 Baines, Malcolm 93 Bradbury, John, limekiln plots bought 91 Bakelite Mouldings, advert 58i Bradford 65, 66 Bakewell, Derbyshire 50 Bramley 65 Banister, Jack, Gnr 49 Brightstone, Isle of Wight 66 Banister, Joseph & Bertha nee Winterbottom, Springhead 49 British colonial territories North Africa 32 bank notes, William Radcliffe 74 British Legion: 78 Bank Top 70 lists of the fallen 49 Bankfield Mill & Ebonestos, London: Audrey M. Taylor 59 British troops, North Africa 32 Bankfield Mill, fire 58 Broadbent, Arthur Bennett & Clara nee Singleton Alsop 50 Bardeneye, Richard, Bardhey Lincolnshire 18 station master, Diggle 50 Barkston Ash wapentake 10 Broadbent, Gilbert: POW 38 Barlow, Mr. & Mrs. 101i rejoins allies 41 Barlow, Robert & Jane 101i Broadbent, Gilbert: 1985, Behind Enemy Lines, Anchor 35 Barnes, Bernard: Passage Through Time 90 Broadbent, Hilda Ruth Myfanwy nee Ratcliffe, Honley 50 Barrow Neil, Saddleworth Private Bank Notes 74 Broadbent, Leonard: born Kimologue Ireland 85i Barrowclough, Dyson & Mary Maud nee Jones,Dobcross 49 Able Seaman Torpedo Man, BBC cameraman 86 Barrowclough, Reggie, Pte 49 Good Conduct Badges 86: HMS Ausonia 85 Basket, skip-making opposite Greenfield Station 100 HMS Firedrake 85, 86i; HMS Pembroke 85 Bath, Henry of, chief justice 21 HMS Resolution 85; HMS Vernon 85 Baum’s electrical shop 99 HMS Wildfire 85; Trade Certificate 86 BBC cameraman 86 Broadbent, Sally 77 Beeches, Roundhay, Leeds 61 Broadbent, Stanley, L/Cpl 50 Being A Child In 1940s Greenfield: Karl Pritchard 92-104 Brooks, Dorothy, paper shop, Greenfield Station 100 bellman 108 Brooks, Philip, paper shop 93 belt fitter 84 Brown, Albert, Tpr 50

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Brown, Alfred, Gnr 50 Cemeteries & Memorials in England Brown, Edward Herbert & Harriet nee Sykes, Oldham 50 Brookwood Memorial Surrey 54, 55 Brown, Ellen nee Evans 50 Buckley’s Bakery Plaque, Uppermill (Square) 55 Brown, Harry & Nancy nee Dunning, Greenfield 50 Christchurch Churchyard, grave Friezland 50 Brown, Ruth Alice nee Fernley Oldham 50 Christchurch, Denshaw Churchyard Memorial 57 Brownhill Bridge, Dobcross New Road 90 Christchurch, Friezland Memorial Plaque 57 Brownhill Nature Garden 91 Delph Methodist Church Memorial Plaque 57 Brownhill Viaduct, LNWR 90 Denshaw War Memorial 50, 53, 55, 56, 57 Brushes, Staley 64 Holy Trinity Church, Dobcross, Memorial Panel 57 Buckley, Alice 60, 62, 70 Lees C 56 Buckley, Ann 70 Middleton Old C grave 52 Buckley, Betty, will, Shaw Hall Bank, Flixton 62, 63, 70 Pots & Pans Memorial, (Delph) 50, 52, 53, 55, 57 Buckley, Charles John, Lt 50 (Denshaw) 50, 53, 56 Buckley, Ernest Gordan, Pte 50 (Diggle Dobcross) 49, 51, 54, 55 Buckley, Francis & Dorothy Bebba Rose nee Burman 50 (Greenfield Grasscroft) 50-56 Buckley, Hannah, Shaw Hall Bank 62, 70 (Springhead) 49, 51, 53-56 Buckley, Henry, clothier, Dobcross 70 (Uppermill) 52, 54, 55 Buckley, Herbert & Martha Ann nee Brierley, New Delph 50 Springhead 1939-45 Plaque, Pots & Pans cover 2i Buckley, James, clothier, Shaw Hall Barn, will 59, 61, 62,70 Springhead Congregational Church Memorials 57 Buckley, John: Abels 59 St. Anne’s Church, Lydgate, grave 51 clothier, Peters, Bank Top 70 St. Chad’s Churchyard, grave 49-51, 53, 55, 56 clothier, Shaw Hall Bank 62, 63, 70 St. John the Baptist, Hey, Churchyard 56 Buckley, Martha 70 St. Mary’s Church Greenfield, Memorial Plaque 50-52 Buckley, Mary 62, 70, 71 St. Paul’s Church, Scouthead, Memorial Cupboard 56, 57 Buckley, Mike: A Saddleworth Commemorative Jug 72-77 St. Thomas’ Church, Friarmere, grave 52 The Family Papers of Joseph Whitehead Johnson St. Thomas’ Church, Meml Honour Roll 52, 53, 55, 57 of Leeds 59-71 Uppermill Methodist Church, Memorial Panels 57 Buckley, Peggy 70, 71 Wesleyan Chapel, Delph, Memorial Plaque 50, 52 Buckley, Peggy Lees see also Peggy Lees Whitehead Wrigley Mill Memorial Plaque 51, 55 Buckley, Peggy Lees, Shaw Hall, Bowden 59, 70 Cemeteries & Memorials Overseas Buckley, Robert: Bowden 66 Arnhem Oosterbeek War C., Netherlands 49, 55 Shaw Hall Bank, Congleton 60-63, 70 Beach Head War C, Anzio, Italy 50 will, estate value 59, 70 Benghazi War C., Libya 53 woollen manufacturer, Congleton 59 Beny-Sur-Mer, Canadian War C., Calvados, France 52 Buckley, Samuel: Lydgate & Frenches, burler 70 Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War C., Calvados 49 will 62 Cassino, Memorial Panel, Italy 52 Buckley, Sarah, Shaw Hall Bank 70 Castiglione, South African C., Bologna Italy 54 Buckley, Whitehead, Johnson, descent of family papers 61 Catania War C., Sicily 51 Buckley, William: Salford, cotton dealer, will 59, 62, 70 Chungkai War C., Thailand 49 Shaw Hall Bank, clothier, will 59, 62, 70 Coriano Ridge War C., Italy 52 Bucklow, Cheshire 51 Delhi War C., India 55 Burgess, Arthur, originally from London 58 Alamein War C., Egypt 54 Burgess, Kathie, Greenfield 58 Enfidaville War C., Tunisia 54 Burghfield 17 Fontenay-Le-Pesnel War C., Tessel, Calvados 52 Burghwallis, near Doncaster 1, 2 i, 10-15, 18, 22 Forli War C., Italy 49 Bushrod, Annie: Salisbury, Wilts. 66 Froyennes Communal C., Hainaut, Belgium 51 Spruce Cottage, Leeds 65 Imphal War C., India 50, 53 Bushrod, Robert Frank, Salisbury, Wilts. 66 Karachi War C., Pakistan 52 Butterworth, John & Mary Spencer nee Laycock, S’worth 50 Knightsbridge War C., Acroma, Libya 53 Butterworth, Rev. Thomas, Hurst Ashton-u-Lyne 63 Kohima War C., India 53 Butterworth, Roy Pte 50 Leopoldsburg War C., Limburg, Belgium 55 Medjez-El-Bab War C., Tunisia 51, 53 C Meldola War C., Italy 51 Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa see Military Units Minturno War C., Naples Italy 53 Camp, POW, Roma 36 Moro River Canadian War C., Italy 55 Campo PG 53, Sforzacosta 41 Phaleron War C., Athens, Greece 49 Campo PG 59, Servigliano: 36, 37i Rangoon Memorial, Burma 50, 54 activities, escape tunnels, food, life at 39, 40 Sage War C., Germany 51 Red Cross parcels, routines, religious services 39, 40 Sfax War C., Tunisia 52 Campo PG 66 Capua, Naples 36 Singapore Memorial Column 54-56 Campo PG 120 Padua, Venice 41 Ste. Marie C., Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France 50 Campsall estate, John Tilly 18 Taiping War C., Malaysia 53 cane, use of 80 Taukkyan War C., Burma 51, 56 Cantilupe, Master Hugh de, precentor of York 15 Tilly-Sur-Seulles War C., Clavaos, France 57 Cape Town, ship refuelled 32 Triccomalee War C., Sri Lanka 53 Capes Dunn, auction 59 Uden War C., Netherlands 56 Capua, Naples Campo PG 66 36 Veules-Les-Roses Communal C., France 54 Carr Barn: 59, 71 censored letter 38i Giles Shaw’s estate 72 Chadderton 53 Carr Lane 93 chamberlain to Henry I 10 carrier business 75 Charles Whitehead & Walter Whitehead Papers 62, 63 Carrier Lowe, mill 66 Cheshire large measure 63, 64

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Chew Brook pollution 103 Delph rejoices 108 Chew Valley Oldham visitors 92 Den Lane 90 Chew Valley Road, shops 96-101 Denshaw Fold 78i, 79i Christ Church, Friezland, vicar of 92 Denshaw Observer, magazine 78 Christmas Greetings card from troops abroad 33i Denshaw school days 79 Clarke, Harry & Alice nee Schofield, Rochdale 51 Denshaw School photograph c1910 80 Clarke, Joan nee Rutledge Rochdale 51 Denshaw Valley Print Works 78 Clarke, John Cpl. 51 Diggle Primary School, student 85 Clarkson, Ellen 65 disablement pension 47 Clarkson, Hannah, Farsley, will 65 Divi slip 97 Clarkson, John 65 Dobcross 70 Clayton, Bradford, Veilly holding 18 Dobcross Loom Works (The Foundry) 32 Clayton, Mr., Headmaster, Greenfield Council School 94 Dodworth, William of 1, 3, 4, 18 Clegg, Betty Joan Fraser nee Haggart 51 Dolly Blue 98, 98i Clegg, Harry & Anne nee Hadfield, Grasscroft 51 Doncaster, murder scene 1 Clegg, Harry, Cpt. 51 Donkey stones 98, 98i Cliff, Harold & Mary nee Spencer, Uppermill 51 Downey, George Arthur, Pte. 2 Cliff, Harold Spencer, Section leader 51 Downey, Thomas Anderson & Georgina Downey Delph 52 Cliff, Joan Elizabeth nee Bradbury 51 Driver, Betty, Huddersfield 66 clogs 79, 92 Driver, Eli Lees, Saddleworth prorperty 61, 66 Close Rolls 6 driver, horse, steam 78 clothier 59, 62, 63, 70 Driver, John, Saddleworth property 61, 66 Cocking, Thomas, driver, Denshaw Fold 78 Driver, Matthew, Huddersfield, book keeper 66 Cocking, Una, Denshaw Fold 78, 82i Driver, Samuel Lees, property: High Moor 61, 66 Cockroft, Susan 86 Shelderslow 61, 66 Strinesdale 61, 66 Coldstream Guards see Military Units Duckworth’s grocers 99 Colonial Territories of North Africa 32 Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt. see Military Units concert pianist 85 Dunkerley, Frank & Minerva nee Nowel, Greenfield 52 Congleton 63, 59, 70 Dunkerley, Millie née Hirst, Greenfield 52 Conservative Club, Greenfield 99 Dunkerley, William, Cpl 52 Cook, Ada nee Landsborough 51 Dunkirk 84 Cook, Edwin, Pte 51 Durham Light Infantry see Military Units Cook, George Thomas & Mary Ann nee Mills,Altrincham51 E Co-op 50th Anniversary 109i Eagle Inn, Stalybridge, auction at 64 Co-op at Bockin 100 Earl Mill, Oldham, demob suit 47i Coop Row, Diggle 85 Earl of Stamford & Warrington, Staley Manor 60, 64 Co-op stores, towards Clarence 100 Early Saddleworth Records No 8, Two Homicides in a Co-op telephone for members 31 Yorkshire Meadow, 1248: Victor Khadem 1-28 Co-op, Chew Valley Road corner Greenbridge Lane 96, 97i East Lancashire Regt. see Military Units Coopers tenement, Staley 64 Ebonestos, New Cross London, Bakelite Mouldings 58 Coram rege roll 15 Edward VII, coronation bonfire 108i Coroner, West Riding, inquest 1 El Alamein, battle of 32 coroner’s rolls 3 Ellis, Trevor, Canal Society 90 Cottingley estate, Waleys 18 Enigma machine 33 cotton dealer 59, 60, 70 Eritrea, Italy colonial territories 32 cotton spinner 60, 63-65, 71 Essex Regt. see Military Units Council School, Uppermill 30 Ethiopia, Italy colonial territories 32 county court 3 Evans, Stephen, survived Dakota plane crash 102 Court Street, Uppermill 29 eyre of York 1, 3, 5, 10 cowheel stew 98 Eyville, John de 13 Cowlam 19 Crawshaw, Mrs., toffee shop, Denshaw 79 F Croome estate 11 Farrar Estate Plan (1770) 90 Cross 72 Farrer, James, manorial estate sale 59 crown pleas 4 Farsley, Leeds 65 Crowther’s butchers 100 Fascist Grand Council Italy 41 Cunard White Star line 85 felonious deaths 3 D Fife & Forfar Yeomanry see Military Units film certificate, ‘H’ 103 D.F.C. 83 fire control warden 32 Dacres, grocers 100 fitzHerbert, estates 11, 22 Dagenhal, William 18 fitzHerbert, family 10 Daisey Knowl, High Moor 66 fitzHerbert, Peter 12 Dakota DC3 plane crash, Indian's Head, Chew V 102 fitzHerbert, Reginald 11, 12 Davies, Herbert & Eliza nee Dronsfield, Springhead 51 fitzHerbert, Thomas, lord of Cowlam, Weaverthorpe 11 Davies, Mary nee Hart, Oldham 51 fitzHerbert, William, archbishop of York 10 Davies, Wright, Pte. 51 fitzPeter, Lucy 11 Dawson, Eric, Pte. Nora nee Brown, Grasscroft 51 fitzPeter, Thomas 11, 12 Dawson, Joseph & Mary nee Leach, Oldham 51 flat irons 98 Dawson, Turnough, Pte 51 Flixton 62, 70 Dearnley, Booth, Grove Cottages 30, 33 foodstuffs1940s: Frys 5 Boys milk chocolate, death by accident, misadventure, felony 3 Horlicks tablets, National Dried Milk, Orange juice 99i deeds 66

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Foster, Ivan 86 Hargreaves, Mary née Logan 52 Foster, Ivan: Saddleworth 1939 – 1945 Part 1 Army 49-57 Hargreaves, Walter & Elizabeth née Duckworth 52 Foster, Patricia, Obituary: Keith Taylor 87, 88 Harrop Court, Diggle 30i, 31, 32, 84 Foster, Patricia: Members of my Family who took Harrop Mary 77 part in WWII 83-86 Hartleys 99 Foster, Patricia: Vice Chair’s Report AGM 2016 105-107 Haslington Lancashire 52 Fox, Eric, Sap. 52 hatter, Hollinwood 64 Fox, William Henry & Helena nee Evans, Greenfield 52 Havering, Richard of 17 Frank, William 1, 8 Hawkyard, Joel, Farrar Estate Plan (1770) 90 Frederick Smith, Copper wire producers Manchester 32 HCC Minutes 89 French colonial territories North Africa 32 Healaugh, Ellen, widow 1,3-5, 7, 8, 10-12, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22 Frenches 70 Healaugh, John of 18 Frenches Dyeworks: (Joseph Clare’s) bleaching 95, 102 Healaugh, John son of Herbert of 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 12. 18, 20 Knoll chimney demolished 101 Healaugh, John’s death, pardon and appeal 23-28 Fry’s Miss, shop, Shaw Hall Bank Road, spanish 99 Healaugh, William of 18 Frys 5 Boys milk chocolate 99i Heathfields 90 Furlane, Giles Shaw’s estate 72 Henry I’s chamberlain 10 G Henry III 8 grant of royal pardon 1 Gartside, Margery Kathleen 52 Hervey Rhodes, finishing mill, Harrop Court 32 Gartside, Richard Nelson, Major 52 hide and seek 96 Gartside, Roger Wolseley & Claire Mayall née Lees 52 Higgs nee Duddle 53 Gascony 8, 10, 22 Higgs, Alice England 53 Geneva Convention 36 Higgs, Cyril, Pte 53 Article 27, work for prisoners 40 High Cross, Uppermill 29 Article 54, sanctions of prisoners 40 High Moor 61, 66 George III, King, recovery 108 Higher House Boarshurst 76 George V, coronation celebration 109i Hightown, Congleton 70 George Henry, Earl of Stamford & Warrington 63 Hilbrighthope, quitclaims 19 Germany: surrendered 44 HMS Ausonia 85 takes Italy 41 HMS Firedrake 85,86i Gilbert the ploughman 18 HMS Pembroke 85 glacial boulder: Chew Valley Rd opposite WellingtonRd 102 HMS Ramillies 85 St. John's Church, Mossley 102 HMS Resolution 85 Stamford Park, Ashton 102 HMS Vernon 85 Globe Tavern, Ashton-u-Lyne, HCC meetings 89 HMS Wildfire 85 Godard, Mr., shorthand teacher 80 Holden, Frank & Amy née Hall, Diggle 53 Godley Charter 20 Holden, Irvine, Gnr. 53 Good Conduct Badges 86 Holden’s trade directory 1811 74 goods train, 45701 Conqueror 94i Holland, Benjamin, Staley, will 64 Gordon Highlanders see Military Units Hollingworth, John of 1, 8, 20, 21 Goring, prioress of, Berkshire 17 Hollingworth, lordship of Longdendale 20 Gough, Bob: The Limekilns at Brownhill 89-91 Hollingworth, Thomas 20 grand assize 4 Hollinwood, lease 64 Green, Harry & Sarah Alice née Wood, Lees 52 Holmes, Weston, farm, Wellington Road 95 Green, Harry, Tpr 52 Home Guard see Millitary Units Green, Nora née Kenworthy 52 Honour of Pontefract 12, 22 Greenbridge Lane tip, Chew Valley Road 95 Horlicks tablets 99i, 104 Greenfield: 54 Huddersfield and Manchester Railway Company 89 chip shop ‘Chippy Bill’s’ 96, 96i, 97i Huddersfield Canal Company (HCC) 89, 91 Greenfield Council School, Shaw Street 93 Huddersfield Canal Society 89 Greenfield Mill: football cup 30 Huddersfield Chronicle, railway viaduct accident 90 Italian prisoners 92 Huddersfield Narrow Canal locks,Uppermill Greenfield Railway Station 92 Dungebooth (22W) 89 Greenwood’s baker, Kinders 100 Limekiln (23W) 89 Grenadier Guards see Military Units Wade (21W) 89 Griffith, James Michael, Pte. 52 Huddersfield, carrier business 75 Griffith, Maud née Barnes 52 hue and cry 3 Griffith, Patrick & Ellen nee Frain, Oldham 52 Huntsman, Kathleen 86 Grimshaw Lane, Tonge 65 Hurst, Ashton-u-Lyne 63 Grocer, William Radcliffe 74 Grove Cottages, Harrop Court, Diggle 30i I Gudlak, Ralph 1, 8, 19 Index to Volume 46: Alan Schofield 110-118 Gunner 950713 The Missing Years: Herbert Schofield’s India, water pump 84i War Experience 1940-1945: A. Schofield 29-48 Indian Signal Corps see Military Units H Indian travelling salesman 99 inquest, frequency of 3 Hall, James, Bowden, mortgage 64 Intake 71 Halliwell, Ada 101i Iredale’s baker, Wellington Rd, toll house 99 Hamilton, William of, money lender 13 Irish Guards see Military Units Hanson House 70 Italian: farmers shelter Bert Schofield 41 Harehills cemetery, plot deeds 65 prisoners, Greenfield Mill 92 Hargreaves, George, L/Cpl 52 Italian Somaliland, Italy colonial territories 32

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Italy capitulates 41 Laneham, Geoffrey of, York minster 22 J Laneham, William, York, archdeacon Durham 22 Langton, Nigel of 20 Jabez bath, Chew valley 92 Lark Hill, sledging 30 Jackson, Albert & Ethel nee Shepherdson, Springhead 53 Latham, Shelderslow 61, 66 Jackson, Alice 64 Lawton, Mrs., school teacher, Denshaw 79 Jackson, Alice Hannah 64 Laycock, Miss, teacher, Greenfield Council School 94 Jackson, Frank, Fus. 53 Leeds 59, 65, 66 Jackson, Mrs., Headmistress Denshaw 79, 81 Leeds orphanage 85 Jackson, William, New York, USA 64 Lees, Ann, Huddersfield: Saddleworth property 61 Jam Butty 100 will 66 Jesmond, Adam of, Knight 8 Lees, Hannah 70 Johnson Family Papers 64-66 Lenton Priory, tithe disputes 16 Johnson, Alice Gertrude, Bramley, Leeds 65 Lewis, Mr., Headmaster, Greenfield Council School 94 Johnson, Benjamin, Farsely, woollen manufacturer 65 Lexington, Robert of, Westminster justice 21 Johnson, Edith: Brightstone, Isle of Wight 66 Libya, Italy colonial territory 32 Salisbury, Wilts.66:Spruce Cottage, Leeds 65 Lichfield dean and chapter, tithe disputes 16 Johnson, family papers 64-66 Ligett Park Ave., Leeds 66 Johnson, John Whitehead: The Beeches, Leeds 61, 66 Limekilns 89, 90, 91i Tonge, Middleton property 60 Lincoln Castle 22 Johnson, Joseph Whitehead: letter Sec.of State for War 65 Lincolnshire Regt. see Military Units Bradford 66; Leeds 59 Little and Great Kiln Wood, Brownhill 90 Family Papers 59-71; Tonge property 66 Local War Memorials 57 shop Grimshaw Lane, Tonge 65 lodging scheme for visiting wives 31 stuff & woollen merchant 65 Londesbrough, East Riding 11 Johnson, Mary Jane, Bramley, Leeds 65, 66 London and North Western Railway (LNWR) 89, 91 Johnson, Mary Jane, née Whitehead cover 3i, 68i London Electric Wire company 32 Johnson, William 64, 68i London Midland and Scottish Railway Co. canal Plan 89 Bramley, Leeds 65 Long Royd Mill, tenter stove 78 Kempston, Beds 66 Longdendale 20 woollen manufacturer, Farsley 60, 65, 71 Lord, John & Ann, Greenfield 72 Joytorp, Hugh of, Youlthorpe 18 Luddenfoot 30 K Lydgate 70 Karl Pritchard: Being A Child In 1940s Greenfield 92-104 M Keith Taylor: Obituary, Patricia Foster 87, 88 M19 debriefing of POWs 45 Keith Wilson Taylor, Obituary: Patricia Foster 87i, 88 Mallal-ieu, Samuel, Bank Top 63, 64 Kempston, Beds. 66 Manchester Weekly Times, children’s page 80 Kenworth, Ben & Annie née Bradbury 84 Manchester, carrier business 75 Kenworthy, Doris 85 mangle 98 Kenworthy, Florence, Coop Row Diggle 85 Manns 59, 71 Kenworthy, Frank: Lancashire Fusiliers, Harrop Court 84 Mansell, John, royal administrator 8, 9 POW, Stalag 344, Lamsdorf, Poland 84 Market Weighton, East Riding 11 Kershaw, John, lease cotton spinner 63 marriage by banns, by licence 72 Khadem, Victor: Early Saddleworth Records No 8, Mayoh, David, Pte 53 Two Homicides in a Yorkshire Meadow 1248 1-28 Mayoh, Herbert & Ellen née Heywood, Oldham 53 Kinders 60, 63, 64, 71 McCabe, Clement, Tpr 53 Kinders Lane, greengrocer’s & fresh fish 100 McCabe, Francis Edward & Margaret Ann née Malloy 53 King Edward VI Grammar School Stafford 84 McCabe, Margery Cheetham 53 King Victor Emmanuel reinstated 41 Medal: 1939-45 Star 48i King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry see Military Units Africa Star for service in North Africa 48i King’s Regt. Liverpool see Military Units War medal 1939-45 48i King’s Shropshire Light Infantry see Military Units Medal, celebrate King’s recovery 108i Kirkpatrick, Alex, L/Cpl 53 meeting houses, Dissenting and Methodist 108 Kirkpatrick, Samuel & Annie née Hunter, Denshaw 53 Mellor, Fred, Gnr 53 kitchen range 98i Mellor, Ralph & Alice née Holmes, Delph 53 knights fees 12 Members of my Family who took part in WWII: Knoll Spinning Co. 99 Patricia Foster 83-86 Knowl Top, William Radcliffe 73 Memory Lane: Una Ross 78-81 Knowsley, Shelderslow 61, 66 Methodist Church, Uppermill 29 L Middle East, oil fields 32 Lab Thermal, Greenfield 95 Military Units Lacy, Roger de 1, 2, 13 1st Fife & Forfar Yeomanry 51 Lacy’s family steward 12 Border Regt.1st (Airborne) Bn 49 Lancashire Fusiliers see Military Units Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (MG), RCIC 52 Lancaster bomber cockpits 58 Coldstream Guards 5th Bn 55 Lancaster, Harry George &Amelia Emma Ann née Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt.: 54 Goody 53 2nd Bn 55; 2/7 Bn 50 Lancaster, Peggy Eileen Quilter 53 Durham Light Infantry 9th Bn 51 Lancaster, Sidney, Gnr 53 East Lancashire Regt. 5th Bn 52 Lane End, Quick Edge 64 8th Bn 49 Laneham, Adam of: debts to a Lincoln Jew 22 Essex Regt 5th Bn 55 rector of 21 Gordon Highlanders 2nd Bn 55

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Grenadier Guards 56 5th Bn 54 O Home Guard, 36th West Riding (Upper Agbrigg) Bn 51 Oak View Road, Whitsuntide games field 104 Indian Signal Corps 52 Obituary: Keith Taylor, Patricia Foster 87, 88 Irish Guards 1st Bn 50, 52; 3rd Bn 57 Oldham 49, 71 King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 2nd Bn 53 Oldham, soldiers’ birthplace WWII 49-56 King’s Regt. Liverpool 2nd Bn 52 Operation Crusade, Libya 33 King’s Shropshire Light Infantry 1st Bn 51 orange juice, 1940s 99i 2nd Bn 51 Ordnance Survey (OS) map 1854 90 Lancashire Fusiliers 84 1/8Bn 53 orphanage, Leeds 85 Lancers 17th/21st 53 Osgoldcross: estates 13, 22 Lincolnshire Regt. 1st Bn 56 Jury 4, 5; wapentake, map 2i Parachute Regt. 5th Bn AAC 49 outlaw 3, 8 Prince of Wales Dragoon Guards 50 outside toilets, tippler 99 Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry 51 Owston: 13, 14, 15, 18, 22 Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) 49, 53 Church 25i; land claim 4 40th Bn 52; 144th Regt. 49 Owston, Thomas of 20 Royal Armoured Corps, 3rd Carabiniers 50 ox, roasted whole 108 Royal Army Ordnance: 54 19Advance Fighting Vehicles 56 P Royal Army Service Corps: 54 Palace Theatre, Uppermill 103i 63 Airborne Comp. Coy 55 Palmer Thomas & Hannah nee Brooks, Uppermill 54 Royal Air force 83 Palmer, Bertha Crosby 54 Royal Artillery: 50; 14th Lt AA Regt. 49 Palmer, Thomas Lancaster, Sap 54 159 Field Regt. 55 paper mill, sludge settling area, Greenfield 92 44 Bty 61 Lt AA Regt. 53 Papers of Samuel Whitehead, Kinders 63, 64 66th Field Regt. 53; 74, Medium Regt. 53 Parachute Regt. see Military Units 77 HAA Regt. 56 Pardon, John of Hollingworth, 1253 23 88th training Regt., 135 Battery 31 Pavilion Cinema, Mossley 103 Royal Corps of Signals 55, 56 Peak Forest Eyre 5, 22 Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers REME 53, 56 Pennine Link 89 Royal Engineers 103 Army Troops Coy 54 Percy, Peter de, king’s justice 15 164 Railway Operating Sqn. 50 Perkin, Leonard Carl, Co. director, Leeds 66 90 Field Coy 56 Peters 70 557 Field Coy 52 photographs of POW, Bert Schofield 39i Royal Ordnance Corps 49, 54 plane crash, Chew valley 102 Royal Scots Fusiliers 6th Bn 56 Platt 64 Royal Tank Regt. 52 Platt Lane Farm, Dobcross 29 South Lancashire Regt. 2nd Bn 50, 51 Platt, Betty 62 The Kings Regt .Liverpool 7th Bn 52 Platt, John: Dobcross, land for canal 89, 91 West Yorkshire Regt. Prince of Wales’Own 2nd Bn 54 Heathfields 90 milk delivery, horse and cart 100 Platt, Moses 71 mill chimneys in Greenfield, list 101 Platt, Mr. & Mrs., Denshaw Fold 79 Mingham, Iris née Lambert 58 Platt, Sarah née Whitehead 64 Missing in action 33 Pneumonia 92 Monte Cassino Ridge, battle of 41 Pontefract: charter 5 Montgomery, General 32 West Riding, liberty of, map 2i Monumental Inscriptions (MIs) 57 poor house death 76 Christchurch, Denshaw, I. Foster 57 Porto San Giorgio, Adriatic coast 36 Christchurch, Friezland, Alison Wild 57 posser 98 St. Anne’s Church, Lydgate, I Foster 57 post card, secret code 31 St. Chad’s Church, New Yard A. Wild & I Foster 57 Post Office, Chew Valley Road 96 St.Thomas’ Church, Friarmere, I. Foster 57 Pots & Pans War Memorial 49, 57 Moorgate 62 POWS: escape, liberated 44 Moorside 78 prayer card, Bert Schofield 42i Moosburg, Munich, Stalag VIIA 42-44 Prestwich Lancashire 52 Morecambe Wakes Week 1935 30i prison 6,7 Mussolini replaced 41 Prisoners of War: Italian 33 Mytholme 90 Escape, liberated 44 promissory notes 74 N Prune Hill, Greenfield 63, 65 National Dried Milk 92, 99i Nature Walks, Carr Lane, Kinders Lane 93 Q New Street, Uppermill 29 Queen Margaret of Scotland 18 New York USA 64 Quick, Adam, Saddleworth 20 New Zealand troops, North Africa 32 Quick, Richard of, Saddleworth 1, 9 Newton, Humphrey Veilly, land holding 13 Quick, Robert of 20 Norbury, James Henry & Mary Ellen née Bardsley 54 Quick, William of 9, 20 Norbury, John, Pte 54 R North Africa Campaign 32 RAC see Military Units North Africa, capture and transportation 34 Radcliffe, Ann, Boarshurst 73 Nottingham, Robert of 8, 21 Radcliffe, Eliza 77 Nugent, Edwin, Pte 54 Radcliffe, Esther Ann 77 Nugent, John & Ellen nee Wilson, Greenfield 54 Radcliffe, family tree, Cross & Boarshurst 77

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Radcliffe, family, Cross 72 Rowbottam, Arthur, Pte 55 Radcliffe, family, Shaw Hall/Bank 59 Rowland’s sweet shop, Station Brow 99 Radcliffe, Hannah 77 Royal Armour Corps see Military Units Radcliffe, Henry 77 Royal Army Ordnance see Military Units Radcliffe, James Henry 77 Royal Army Service Corps see Military Units Radcliffe, James: Intake 70 Royal Artillery see Military Units Lower Ho., Boarshurst woollen manufacturer 75, 77 Royal Corps of Signals see Military Units Lt., kia 77 Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers see Military Units Radcliffe, John William: Assistant Overseer of the Poor 75 Royal Engineers see Military Units Boarshurst, gentleman, grocer, carrier 75, 77 Royal George Cottage, mill yard shop 100 woollen manufacturer 73, 75, 77 Royal Ordnance Corps see Military Units Deputy Superintendent Registrar, Relieving Officer 77 royal pardon granted by Henry III 1, 8, 9 Cliff, Furlane will 77 Royal Scots Fusiliers see Military Units Cross, Lower House, gentleman, will 77 Royal Tank Regt. see Military Units Furlane, ed:Saddleworth ParishRegisters 75 Rye Top, William Radcliffe 73 Furlane woollen manufacturer 75 S Radcliffe, Mary 77 Saddleworth 1, 5-8, 14, 19-22 Radcliffe, Sarah: 77 Saddleworth & Mossley Reporter, wounded and missing 34i Boarshurst 72 Saddleworth 1939 – 1945 Part 1 Army: Ivan Foster 49-58 Radcliffe, William, bank notes 74 Saddleworth Adam of 1, 5, 8, 22 Radcliffe, William, Boarshurst 72, 73, 76 Saddleworth Chapel: 20 Radcliffe, William, Cross, clothier 73 glebe land 19 Cross, Lower house, clothier, will 77 Saddleworth Commemorative Jug 72i Grocer 74 Saddleworth, Richard of 5 Higher House, Boarshurst 77 Saddleworth UDC, lists of the Fallen 49 Lower Cross 77 Saddleworth, soldiers’ birthplace WWII 49-57 Rye Top, Knowl Top 73; tombstone 75 Sadler, George & Hannah Maria née Spilling, Diggle 55 woollen manufacturer, clothier 75 Sadler, George H. W. Gnr 55 one Guinea Banknote 74i Salford 59, 62, 70 radio accumulator battery, weekly charge 100 Salisbury, J. W. Johnson 61 Rag and Bone man 98 Salisbury, Wilts. 66 Railway Pub, Greenfield 99 Salvayn, Peter son of Adam of, Langtoft 11, 12 Railway Pub, rabbit shows 100 Scanland, Ann 70 Rangoon, Burma 83 Schofield, Alan: Index to Volume 46 108-118 Ratcliffe, Alice Holburt 54 Schofield, Alan: Gunner 950713 The Missing Y ears: Ratcliffe, Joseph, L/Cpl 54 Herbert Schofield’s war experiences 1940-45 29-48 Ratcliffe, Samuel & Elizabeth née Longdon, Greenfield 54 Schofield, Christiana, Barnsley, domestic servant 29 Rawlinson, David 86 Schofield, Doris 29i Rawlinson, Harold: English teacher, Deputy Head 84 Schofield, Esther 29i Flt. Sgt. RAF, D.F.C. 83 Schofield, Frank 29i re-capture, Bert Schofield 41 Schofield, Fred 29i, 38 Reckitts Blue 98i Schofield, Herbert (Bert) 29-48 Red Cardinal, flagged floor polish 98 Schofield, Hilda 29, 31-35, 38, 40, 44 Red Cross post cards, censored 36, 37i Schofield, Joseph, cotton piecer 29 Red Sea, disembarked 33 Schofield, Lottie 29i, 31, 36, 37i Reference for employer 47i Schofield, Lucy 29i REME see Military Units Schofield, Miss, teacher, Greenfield Council School 93 Reserved List, transfer to 45, 46i Scholes, George 64, 71 Rhodes, Abraham, land for canal 89i, 90, 91 Scholes, Lucy nee Whitehead 64 Rhodes, Jack, Grdmn 54 School board 81 Rhodes, Joseph & Ann née Dowden, nee Kenworthy 54 school day, inspections activities 81 Ridge Lane, Diggle 31 school days, Denshaw c1905 78 Rimmer nee Ainsworth 54 Second Baron’s War 13 Rimmer, John, Dvr 54 Secretary of State, War Dept., letter to 65 Riversleigh House 58 Sennybridge camp, Brecon Beacons, artillery training 31 Road End Fair 104 Servigliano, Campo PG 59 36, 37i Robert Fletcher and Son, Greenfield Mill, paper makers 31 set pot 98 Robert, rector, of Almondbury 21 Seville: George, cotton spinner, Royton 65 Roberts, Ernest, Pte 54 George, trustee 64 Roberts, Florence Lees 54 Sforzacosta, Campo PG 53 41 Roberts, Richard & Harriet Ann nee Hirons 54 Shaw estates Uppermill, Carr Barn, Furlane 72 Robinson, Daniel, labourer, Lane Stalybridge, lease 64 Shaw Hall: 60, 62, 71 Rochdale 51 estate sale 59; papers relating to 59 Roche Abbey, quitclaims 19 Shaw Hall Bank 59, 62, 70, 71 Rolls of the Court 1 Shaw Hall Bank Farm 59 Roma, POW camp 36 Shaw Hall Barn 70 Rommel 32 Shaw Housebound Club 78 Rooth, John, Mr. 89, 90 Shaw Literary Society, president 78 Ross, Una, nee Cocking, Shaw 78, 82i Shaw, Alec, Grdmn 55 Ross, Una: Memory Lane 78-81 Shaw, Arthur & Ethel née Coombes 55 Roundhay, Leeds 61 Shaw, Giles, Furlane 72 Rowbottam, Alexandra Mons Davies 55 Shaw, Hannah, Furlane 77

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Shaw, Percy, L/Cp. 55 Staveley, Richard of, Saddleworth 1, 4, 19-21 Shaw, Sarah: Furlane 77 Staveley, Robert of 20 Staley, will 64 Stott, Miss, teacher Greenfield Council School 94 Shaw, Thomas Talbot & Mary Ann née McDermott 55 Strangeways, Manchester 32 Shelderslow 61, 66 Strinesdale 61 Shelmerdine, Frank, POW 38 Suez Canal, Egypt 32 Sherman tank 32 Sutton fee of 1, 3, 21 Shire Clough, Staley, lease 64 Sutton, Eudo of 4, 6, 18 shopkeeper, Shaw Hall 60, 71 Sydney, Australia 60, 62 short hand 80 T shunter, Diggle 30 Tamewater, Dobcross 29 Sicily under Allied control 41 Tanner, Ethel Hoare 65 Sidcup Kent, final posting 45 Tanner, George Frederic 65 Sidi Rezegh, battle for Tobruk 35 Tanner, John Edward, Prune Hill, Greenfield, wool manu 65 Singleton, Herbert, Pte 55 Tanner, Sydney Hoare 65 Singleton, John & Clara née Dent Delph 55 Tanner, Thomas Hoare, Prune Hill, woolen manu.60, 63, 65 Singleton, Sarah Elizabeth née Schofield 55 Tarporley, Cheshire, Royal Artillery training 31 Sir Gilbert Tanner’s house near the Farrars Arms 102 Taylor, Audrey: Bankfield Mill and Ebonestos, London 58 Skellow, fee of, in Owston 1 Taylor, Len, manager, Ebonestos Industies Ltd 58 map 2 i, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 Taylor, Sydney Wilson, toolmaker 58 Skyrack wapentake 4, 13 tenter stove 78 Slackcote 78 tenurial bonds 17, 18 Slater, James 64 Territorial Army Record of Service: Bert Schofield 32 Slater, James, Staley, clothier, lease, mortgage 63, 64 War history 45i; injured, missing 34 Slater, John: Ashton-u-Lyne publican will 64 Tetanus toxide injection 31 Ashton-u-Lyne tenement Lane End, Quick Edge 64 Thatcham 12 Slater, John, lease 63 Thatcham, Elias of 11 Slater, Matilda 64 The Beeches: Leeds, occupied Sec. of State for War 65, 66 Slater, Moses, manufacturer, Staley Wood, Mottram 64 North Park Avenue, Leeds 67i Slater, Sarah, lease 63 The Family Papers of Joseph Whitehead Johnson of Slater, Thomas, manufacturer, Staley Wood, Mottram 64 Leeds: Mike Buckley 59-71 Smetheton, Alan of 5 The Limekilns at Brownhill: Bob Gough 89-91 Smetheton, John of, coroner’s clerk 5 Third Crusade, siege of Acre 13 Smith, Alexander, physician, surgeon, Staningley, Leeds 65 Thorneley, Fred, Pte 55 Smith, Annie Eliza, will, Staningley, Leeds 65 Thorneley, Nevin & Alice Ann née Wagstaff, Uppermill 55 Smith, Annie Joyce Reid 55 Thorner estate 4, 13, 19 Smith, Arthur & Bertha née Smith. Greenfield 55 Thorner, weekly market, annual fair 13 Smith, Sidney, Sig. 55 Thorpe in Balne estate, John Tilly 18 snow games, snowball fights, sledging in the dark 102 Tideswell Church 16 Snydale, Humphrey Veilly, land holding 13 Tilly, John, estates 18 Soldier’s Service and Pay Book 31i Titanic sunk 79 Soldiers Release Book 47i tithe disputes 14, 16 solicitor, Manchester 60 Tobruk: 32 Sotheby’s auction 72 relief of 33 South African troops, North Africa 32 Tonge: dwellinghouses Grimshaw Lane, Shaw St., 65 South Lancashire Regt. see Military Units dwellinghouses Railway St., Greaves St. 65 South’s butchers, Greenfield 100 Middleton, John Whitehead Johnson 60, 63, 65, 66 Southport 60, 65 Townswomen’s Guild, president 78 Spring Grove, Uppermill 62 Trade Certificate 86 Springhead 1939-45 Plaque, Pots and Pans War Ml cover 2i Tripoli to Rome, POW route 36 Springhead Congregational Church Memorials 57 Tunisia, North Africa, capture of 32 Spruce Cottage, Leeds 65 Tunstead will 60, 62, 71 St. Chad’s, pew seat sale 60 Turton, Alfred, Pte 56 St Thomas’s chapel, illuminated 108 Turton, Charlie & Sarah Ann née Mansfield, Denshaw 56 Stalag 344, Lamsdorf, Poland 84 Two Hoots Cottage, Boarshurst 76 Stalag VIIA, Moosburg, Munich 42-44 Typhoid and para typhoid A/B injections 31 Dog tag 42i; gates 43i POW Bert Schofield’s photo 44i; POWs freed 43i U Staley: 64 Uppermill: 62 Leaseholds 60, 64 Giles Shaw’s estate 72 Staley Bar 71 V Staley Manor 60 Veilly 12, 18, 21, 22 Staley Wood, Mottram 64 Veilly, Humphrey de 11, 13, 18 Stalybridge, lease 64 Veilly, Joan 11 Standedge Railway Tunnel guards 32 Veilly, Robert de 4 -9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18 Standedge to Oldham Turnpike Trust 90 Veilly, Sir Robert de, lord of the manor Owston 1 Brownhil,l toll house & gate 90 Map 2i Brownhill Bridgeto Tamewater branch 90 Veilly, William de 14, 18 Staningley, Leeds 65 Veilly’s household members 19 Stanley, Richard of, Wakefield 18 Venice, Campo PG 120 41 Stapleton, Robert of, lord of Saddleworth 5, 6, 7 Vice Chair’s Report, AGM 2016: Patricia Foster 105-107 Stapleton, Saddleworth 19 Villy-Bocage, de Lacy Normandy holdings 13

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Virgin, Arthur, Denshaw Fold 79 Whitehead, Timothy, pew seat sales St. Chad’s 60, 62 Virgin, Sam, Denshaw Fold 79 Whitehead, Walter: estate values 60, 65 W solicitor, Bowden & Mancs. 59-62, 63, 65, 66, 71 Whitehead, William: Midgrove Delph 64, 71 Wade, Mary 65 Shaw Hall, Manns, will 71 Wade, William, Farsley, Leeds 65 Shaw Hall, pew seat 62 Walerand, Robert, royal administrator 8, 9 Shaw Hall, shopkeeper 59, 60, 71 Waleys 12, 22 Whitsuntide new clothes 100, 104 Waleys, Henry le 1, 5, 6, 9, 15, 16, 18 Whitworth, Freda, née Kershaw 56 Waleys, Henry, de Lacy’s family steward 12, 15 Whitworth, Ralph Taylor & Bertha née Collier, Spr’head 56 Waleys, Richard le 12, 13, 15, 16 Whitworth, Sydney, Sig. 56 Waleys, Robert le: de Lacy’s family steward 12 Wild Joseph & Florence Louisa nee Stonehouse Spr’head 56 undersheriff of Yorkshire 12 Wild, John Fred & Minnie née Wild, Austerlands 56 Waleys, Sir Richard le, LoM Burghwallis 1 Wild, Joseph 64, 71 map 2i,4-7, 9, 10, 12, 15 Wild, Joseph, Pte 56 Walker, William, Bollington, farmer, lease 63 Wild, Matty née Whitehead 64 Walter Cox’s cobbler’s shop Greenfield 100 Wild, Walter Hiram, Sap. 56 Waltham, Stephen of, rector, tithe disputes 14 Wilfred’s Co-op & bakery 99 Walton, Frank Crafstman 56 will 59, 62-66 Walton, Fred & Eliza Jane née Green, Greenfield 56 William & Sarah Radcliffe, Boarshurst 72 Walton, Kathleen Mary Capper, Greenfield 56 Williams, Mr., Headmaster, Denshaw 80 Wapentake 3 Williams, Nancy 80 War Office POW letter 35i Wilson Street, Chew Valley Road 95 Wardle & Pratt’s directory 1816 75 Wilson, Alice, will 63 Waring, Mary 70 Wilson, Ann 63 Warlow Drive, council houses 99 Wilson, Mary, Bowden 63 warning siren, Dobcross Loom Works 32 Wilson, Violet 63 Warrington 53 Wisenden’s model shop 99 Weaverthorpe, East Riding 11, 12 Wood, Charlie, POW 38 Weigh, Robert & Ethel née Broadbent, Lees 56 Wood, Derrick, Grdmn 56 Weigh, Robert, Fusilier 56 Wood, Hilda, Grove Cottages, Diggle 30 Wellington Mill Chimney cover 4i, 89i Wood, John Willie: Diggle, shunter 30 Wellington Pub 99 railway accident 33 Wentworth, William 18 Wood, William White & Rose Alice Vinca née Taylor 56 West Derby, Lancashire 49 woollen & stuff merchant 65 West Ham, Essex 53 cloth trade 74 West Yorkshire Regt. see Military Units woollen manufacturer 59, 60, 69, 75 Whitehead family, Shaw Hall & Bank 59, 71 piece burler 70 Whitehead, Ann 59, 64, 71, 77 Wright, William, hatter, Hollinwood, lease 64 Whitehead, Ann Sarah Bower 63 Wriglesworth, Polly, Leeds cemetery plot deeds 65 Whitehead, Annie, married Thomas H. Tanner 60 Wriglesworth, William, Leeds 65 Whitehead, Betty 71 Wrigley, Edna, Denshaw Fold 79 Whitehead, Charles & Whitehead, Walter Papers 62, 63 Wrigley, Harry & Ruth née Gartside Delph 57 Whitehead, Charles; Bowden & Southport 60, 62, 63, 64,70 Wrigley, Herbert, Grdmn 57 Shaw Hall 59 Wrigley, Lillie Sheldon, Delph 57 Whitehead, Dan: 64 writ, de odio et atia 6 Staley Bar 71 writ, de ponendo per ballium 6 Whitehead, Edward 71 WWII 29-48 Whitehead, Eliza 64, 71 Whitehead, Hannah 64, 71 Y Whitehead, James 71 York Minster, gift to 12 Whitehead, Jane 64 York prison 6, 7 Whitehead, John: cotton spinner Oldham 65, 71 Young, Mr., school board 81 Shaw Hall, pew seat 62, 71; trustee 64 Tunstead, Moorgate, will 60, 62, 72 Whitehead, Joseph Edward, cotton spinner, Oldham 65 Whitehead, Joseph: cotton spinner, Shaw Hall 60, 64, 65, 71 Sydney, Australia & Shaw Hall 60, 62 Whitehead, Lucy 71 Whitehead, Mary 64, 71, 77 Whitehead, Mary Ann 71 Whitehead, Mary Jane, letter to William Johnson, 64, 69, 71 married William Johnson 60 Whitehead, Matty 71 Whitehead, Peggy Lees 62, 63 Whitehead, Peggy Lees see also Peggy Lees Buckley Whitehead, Radcliffe 71 Whitehead, Robert, Manns, Carr Barn 59, 71 Whitehead, Samuel: Kinders, Waterworks land 64 Shire Clough, Staley, lease 60, 64 Whitehead, Samuel: Spring Grove, Uppermill 62 will 60, 63, 64, 71 Whitehead, Sarah 71

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