Visit to Castleshaw Roman Fort and Saddleworth Museum August 2nd 2014
Visit to Castleshaw Roman Fort and Saddleworth Museum
August 2nd 2014
FCRF volunteers excavating the site.
About a dozen Friends of the Trust braved the weather and were met at Castlefield Centre car park by Norman Redhead, County Archaeologist, and three Friends of Castleshaw Roman Forts (FCRF) at 10-30 on August 2. Two keen walkers climbed the hill but the rest drove up to the site where FCRF had been excavating for three weeks. It is next to the old hamlet of Lower Castleshaw with its one remaining house. As part of the HLF-supported project, 300 schoolchildren had dug the site of an old cottage where sensitive archaeology could not be disturbed. The main site was much like Mellor with subtle changes of colour in the soil showing the ancient features. Many of the volunteers were inexperienced so it was a good training exercise led by CfAA, Salford University, including our own John Roberts.
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Manchester Histories Festival: March 29, 2014
Celebration Day,
Manchester Town Hall, March 29, 2014.
Inspiring and wonderful photographs.
This was just one of the comments on the Oldknow Legacy Project. The highlights of our display were the five large pictures, the two Parry paintings and three of Arthur Procter’s magnificent photos of how the sites (or sights!) look today, plus portraits of 30- and 60-year old Samuel Oldknow.
Mellor Mill Heritage Day, Sunday, 8th September
Early in the morning ‘staff’ made their way down t’mill, volunteers preparing for their duties. Cars clattered down the imperfect Lake Road, carrying the gazebo, the display boards, the books and the rest. Two hundred years before in the pre-dawn gloom, on Wednesday September 8th 1813 there would have been the clattering of clogs as 500 women and children, and but few men, huddled figures, descended the hill on their way t’mill, then in its prime, past the boss’ house, to the toil of a working day. Mellor Mill Heritage Day was to celebrate these workers, their boss, Samuel Oldknow, and his Mill.
Chadkirk Festival, Sunday, 21st July 2013
The summer of 2013, having been faithful to title for three weeks, began to become grumpy over the week-end. Undeterred by the promise and the eventual arrival of rain, a hors d'oeuvre at midday, with the main course three hours later, people arrived to enjoy the 17th annual Chadkirk Festival.
Marple Locks Festival, Sunday, June 30th 2013
The Biannual Locks Festival was held on the Canal and Marple Memorial Park on Sunday June 30th by the Marple Locks Heritage Society. The Society was born out of the need to celebrate and co-ordinate the Marple Locks bi-centenary in 2003.