Sheila Goodyear :
* A Gartside Sent to Van Diemen's Land -
"Man's Inhumanity to Man"
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* WW1 ... the Home Front :
War Comforts & Fund Raising
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* The Naval Sea Battle of Jutland -
31st May to 1st June 1916
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* 'The Great War -
How it Touched Lives in Oldham' (Part1)
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* ''The Great War -
How it Touched Lives in Oldham' (Part 2)
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* ''Votes for Women!'
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* 'A Steeplechase!
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* Edward Garside Whitehead WW1
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* Oldham Men & The Battle of 3rd Ypres,
Passchendaele
July 31st to November 1917
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* The Massacre of Peterloo,
16th August, 1819, Manchester.
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* Manchester Hill, 21st March 1918
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Alex Balmforth :
* Gallery page - assorted photographs
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* Victorian Architecture and Society
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* An Introduction to Architecture
& Buildings in Oldham
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* Domestic Building 1899 – 1970
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* Edgar Wood and James Henry Sellers - architects
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* Theatre and Music Hall History'
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* Kathleen 'Lally' Bowers, 1914-1984
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* Theatre Royal, Oldham -
Bernie Burgess & The 'Jones Boys'
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* Peter Cannon :
* Robert William McGuinness
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* 'Mixed Bag' of things that caught my interest
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John Holmes :
* A collection of Photographs,
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* John Beever :
* The Lamb Inn: 16 Market Place
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* A little about St Mary's Parish Church
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Mark Beswick :
* History of the Oldham Fire Brigade
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Family & Local History Interest on the Oldham & District Family History Society website pages.
* Video Page HERE
* Pictorial Index HERE
*' Miscellany' HERE... assorted pdfs to read online or download.
* Snippets from the Monthly Oldham & District Newsletter HERE
* Ongoing Projects HERE
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Links to some of the articles found in the Index
* Oldham's Fossil Forest - Ken Stanley's account of his re-discovery of its location in 1980 - includes transcriptions from 19th century newspaper letters and reports etc.
* Oldham Education Week - May 1925
A transcription of the 88 page handbook with 35 images and 5 tables.
*Lydia Becker 1827 -1890 ... 'Words of a Leader':
Being Extracts from the Writings of the late Miss Lydia Becker 1904d
*Lydia Becker 1827 -1890 ...'A Cameo Life-Sketch' by Marion Holmes, 1912
*St. Paul's Methodist Church, Rochdale Road, Shaw ... Burials, history, fundraising after WW1 and more.
* A Very Brief History of the Co-operative Movement; from the Rochdale Pioneers to the Present Day.(.pdf file)
*Oldham & District Mills
List of mills extracted from :
'The Cotton Mills of Oldham' by Duncan Gurr & Julian Hunt. Published in 1998
Links to five .pdfs, each listing all the mills, in columns, with dates, names, locations and some notes. Each file has the data sorted differently, facilitating different search criteria.
* 'Evans Coal Miners – From Broseley to Oldham' by Alan Blow
* 'Salford Hundred: Prestwich cum Oldham'.
Transcription; 22 pages, extracted from :
'History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster'
by Edward Baines, Esq. M.P.
Vol. II. Pub. 1836
* Transcript of the Introduction to
'The Annals of Manchester' ed. William E.A. Axon, Pub. 1886 with a link to a list of the Borough Reeves of Manchester, 1552-1846
* Grotton Hall, Saddleworth & the Buckley Family
Transcripts from:
* 'A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain' Vol. 2, written by John Bernard Burke and published in 1853.
* Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society' in Number 1, , Vol. 15, (1985)
© Saddleworth Historical Society
*A Genealogical Memorial of the Family of Buckley of Derby and Saddleworth' by Henry Fishwick, published in 1900.
* Custom Roll and Rental of the Manor of Ashton-under-Lyne, November 11, 1422.
Transcription
* Johannes Georg Wilhelm Gruban, a German Armaments Manufacturer in Oldham During World War One
by Dorothy Bintley
* Finding Early Burials in Oldham & District
by Rodney Melton
* The Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester'
'The Court Leet or View of Frank Pledge,15th October, 1819'
Transcription
* OLDHAM NEWSPAPERS
Reprinted from the 'Oldham Express' in 'Local Notes and Gleanings' by Giles Shaw,
Vol.1, 1886 - 1887 p.194 - 195
* The Gallery Page
A collection of photos and pictures with links to our local district, contributed by our website visitors.
* WW1 in 1915 ... the GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN in the DARDANELLES.
The 1st/10th Bat. of the Manchester Regiment, the Oldham Territorials, were there, and suffered many losses.
Find their names, and those of local men in other regiments, who lost their lives, in Gallipoli, from April to December, 1915.
* The 16th(S) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, in the Second Battle of the Somme, at Manchester Hill, 21st March,1918,
An Account of the Battle; names of local men who died; and the names of all other men in the 16th, who died on the day or from the wounds received.
* THE ALBISTON FAMILY -
19th CENTURY LATTER DAY SAINTS IN OLDHAM
Courtesy of Craig Albiston, Houston, Texas
* MEMORIES OF THE 'TIN MISSION' (LATTER DAY SAINTS) NEVILLE STREET, OLDHAM.
Courtesy of Eileen (Mills) Taylor & Sylvia (Mills) Cornell
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SALFORD HUNDRED : PRESTWICH cum OLDHAM',
Transcription of chapter, 22 pages, extracted from :
'HISTORY of THE COUNTY PALATINE and DUCHY of LANCASTER'
by Edward Baines, Esq. M.P.
Vol. II. Pub. 1836
* Transcript from : 'The Annals of Manchester'
ed. William E.A. Axon, Pub. 1886
INTRODUCTION.
with: Link to .pdf List of Manchester Borough Reeves from 1552 - 1846
with: List of Mayors of Manchester
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Thrice Married Elisabeth Rose ... and The Will
The story of Elisabeth Rose Hoyle/Waller/Cheetham, née Martin, born in Yorkshire before being widowed, after her first marriage, and coming to Oldham as an innkeeper.
Courtesy of Calderdale FHS,
© David Johnson 2020 CFHS 2021
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