Visitor Survey Volunteers – Can you spare some time this Autumn?
Visitor Survey Volunteers – Can you spare some time this Autumn?
We need to show our funders at HLF the difference that the Oldknow Project is making. The number of visitors, new visitors and their perception and understanding will help to evidence this. Training will include a simple toolkit of how to collect the data.
Can you help us to conduct visitor counts and brief surveys up to 3 questions across the project area at Marple Aqueduct, Lime Kilns and the site of Mellor Mill? If so, you will get support and training, will meet other people and be our eyes and ears on the ground to listen to visitors and will be supporting a local project, making a valuable contribution to its success.
The training session(s) will be on Tuesday 1st November in the morning (evening if required). Counts and surveys will be taken for period of one hour over weekend and weekdays between Saturday 5th November – Sunday 20th November.
The sites are all outside and variously accessible by car or on foot. You will need to be dressed for the weather and wear suitable footwear. All equipment including badges/ identification will be provided and arrangements can be made to work with other volunteers so that you are not alone.
If you can help please contact Fiona Turpin This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
or 07880 476085
Meccano Model is Wrong!
John Glithero:
The excavation of the engine house and gearing passage at Mellor Mill has made great progress. The boiler seatings, engine bed and bearing foundations have all been exposed and allow some estimates of the size and layout of the power transmission system to made. Several of the diggers have said that they had difficulty in visualising what it was that they were digging up, and my descriptions in terms of whirling gear wheels, shafts, couplings etc., did not seem to help them.
Mellor Mill's First Festival
Mellor Mill's First Festival:
On Sunday 19th July, Mellor Mill celebrated the Council for British Archaeology’s Festival of Archaeology. Despite a damp start to the day, local people and visitors from further afield gathered to take part in this Heritage Lottery Funded celebration of all things archaeology. That’s Manchester TV even popped down to do some filming for their news show!
Heritage Lottery Fund Support Update, March 2015
Work begins in earnest !
The corner is being lifted, the legacy of Samuel Oldknow is being revealed, the hidden work and skills of the 18th and 19th, revealed for the 21st century.
The New Year brought the visit of a big digger to the mill site. Bob Humphrey-Taylor, Mill Site Director, and Rachel Miller , Project Archaeologist, set to clear the spoil heaps that had grown around the site from the mainly hand excavations over the past two years, since investigation began in earnest. Fantastic progress was made. As well as landscaping, some of the 1000 tonnes of earth was moved to create a flat landscape for the site cabins.
Heritage Lottery Fund Support Update, December 2013
£1.5M Award for Reve
aling Oldknow's Legacy
John Hearle writes: At the September meeting of the NW HLF committee, an award of £1.5 million was agreed for "Revealing Oldknow's Legacy: Mellor Mill and the Peak Forest Canal in Marple." On November 29, a "pre-startup" meeting between HLF, C&RT and MAT to finalise various details of the way the project would be handled. Once formal permission to start is given, the next step will be to appoint staff and sub-contractors. During the first three months of 2014 the three-year project will become fully operational.
Read more: Heritage Lottery Fund Support Update, December 2013
