Dates for your Diary
Next Trustee and Management Committee Meeting
Thursday 15th April , 7.30 pm at the Old Vicarage
Reopening of the Origins Gallery at Stockport Story Museum and handover of Gift of Land
Saturday April 10th, 10.30am
The Origins Gallery at The Stockport Story Museum will be reopened by the Mayor of Stockport at 10.30am and the gift of land at The Old Vicarage will later in the day be officially transferred to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council as a Public Open Space.
Tours of Mellor Mill for the Festival of British Archaeology
July 17th and 18th 2010, first tour 10.30am, last tour 2.30pm
For the Festival of British Archaeology tours will be availble of the remains of Mellor Mill, which was built by Samuel Oldknow in 1790 and burnt down in 1892. Although virtually everything above ground has gone, the remains of many of the below ground features can be seen, thanks to an evaluation excavation which was carried out in March 2009. The site is privately owned and, for safety reasons, the mill complex is not normally open to the public. The tour will show the base of the mill walls, wheelpits, tunnels and other features of this industrial complex in the Goyt Valley.
The cost will be £3-00 per person, £1-00 for concessions (unwaged), Unfortunately not suitable for children under 14.
For further details: Contact Miranda Galloway on 07982 485413 or by email at Mellordig+++@live.com
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Directions - The site is in what is currently known as the Roman Lakes Recreation Area. Follow Faywood Road (opposite Oldknow Road at the junction with Arkwright Road, by Marple recreation ground) and Lakes Road, to the Roman Lakes Leisure Park (grid ref 968878).
Drive carefully along the unadopted Lakes Road (officially a bridleway).