Browse Items (19 total)

1. Black & white photograph of Ernest Carver b. 1861
2. Photocopy of portrait painting in oval frame of Alice Carver
3. Two page typed obituary regarding the death of 2nd Lt Geoffrey H Bagshawe at Ypres in 1915, elder son of Ernest and Alice…

Email requesting information on the Carver Family, specifically Basil Carver 1914 - 1916 sent by Graham Winton : 2016

Photocopy of Woodville Hall built by John Carver : from The Marple Website.
Also plan of Woodville dated 1890 showing House, Woodville Lodge, Woodville Cottage, Bridges Farm, Cross Lane and surrounding parkland.

Three page chart showing family descendants from William Carver b1800-d1875 to 1938. William's children included the twins Thomas and John Carver.

1. Colour photocopy of Garswood, 32 Trafalgar Road, Birkdale, Southport home of Thomas Carver in 1911.

2. Photocopy of Map showing Greystoke dated 1914 home of John Carver after he moved from Marple.

Photocopy of envelope with logo of Carver Bros, Gibraltar and date stamp description, sent from Gibraltar to Plymouth on board the Euphrates in 1856.

(a) Colour photographs of the Carver Warehouse taken 2014
(b) Three pages of handwritten research, author unknown.
(c) Page 224 from Manchester Fifty Years Ago', relating to the Carvers' Manchester concerns.
(d) Page 24 from 'Warehouses,…

(a) Two photocopied photographs showing Wellington Mill Hazel Grove taken over by Hollins Mill & Co.
(b) Newspaper photograph from The Guardian
11 Jan 1964. showing Wellington Mill on Fire.
(c) Various items of research material regarding…

Handwritten research notes from several Trade Directories including Slater, Kelly, Pigots and Whites Directory for Carver family giving information on businesses and addresses of properties .

Extract from 'A journey through Time : Holmes Chapel : Cotton and Cranage', a book part written by Janet Yarwood , the last few pages covering the history of Cranage Hall and the period when the Carver Family lived at the Hall.
Photocopy of…

(a) Two A3 photocopied sheets comprising a schedule and map with key entitled “The Plan – referred to” signed at the bottom by Samuel Hodgkinson, Thomas Carver and John Carver but undated. This shows Hollins Mill with gasometer, chimney, boiler…

Information of Oswald Carver's military record during WW1 with the Royal Engineers and biography from www.Stockport 1914-1918.co.uk website.
Handwritten short biography of Captain Oswald Armitage Carver : author unknown.
Single handwritten page…

Email correspondence between Hilary Atkinson and David Waterson regarding gravestone of Carver family.
Colour photograph of stone cross and grave shows ) inscription on one side “In loving remembrance of Harold Carver Barlow missing in France - -…

1. Photocopy of photograph of John and Thomas Carver date unknown.
2. House for Golden Wedding in 1904 with Christian names or relationship underneath
3. Extract File 3/14 from Marple Website showing Family group as above with description of Golden…

Census Records - Carvers -1851 - 1911
14 pages of photocopied census records of the Carver family at several locations and dates.

Newspaper cuttings, photocopies, handwritten and typed relating to the Carvers, family and business.
1870 : Warehouse in Portland St, Manchester (the property of Mr William Carver) being built for Messrs George Frazer, Son & Co, merchants
1872…

History of Carver family from the 15c to 20c. Covering their business and family pedigree. Contains photographs of family, houses and business material. Written by Mrs Joyce R Donald in 1970.

Photocopies of two newspaper cuttings:-
Jan 1970…

Miscellaneous material relating to Betty Carver & Field Marshal Montgomery :
1. Extract from book "The Making of a General" (22 pages).
2. Article "A Marple Connection" by Audrey Featherstone (3 pages). Full transcript on Marple website.
3.…

15 typed pages of draft Chapters / Notes by Peter Bardsley.
First draft, later used by Ann Hearle for a book. Two hundred years of three families who owned The Hollins Mill Hall Estate, The Carvers, the Hodgkinsons and the Walmsleys.

Two pages…