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Links to Family and Local History Articles
on 'Oldham Historical Research Group' Website
& on their Companion Website,
'The Massacre of Peterloo, in 1819'
A collection of articles, to be found on those websites,
and contributed by readers, which cover a wide variety of subjects,
with particular reference to both local people and places, and family interest.
General WW1 Peterloo All Transcriptions
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WOMEN IN WW1 ... DR. CATHERINE PAYNE, 1876 to 1918
...Head Surgeon at Oldham Infirmary then Resident Assistant Medical Officer, at the Oldham Poor Law Institution.
Vice-President of the 'Oldham Society for Women's Suffrage' during 1916 and 1917
Read it HERE
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'The Election of a Councillor, Coldhurst Ward, 1922'
from an illustrated presentation given by Jeremy Sutcliffe, about the election of his grandfather, Frank Tweedale.
Read it HERE
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WYKEHAM HENRY KOBA FREAME, DCM, 1880-1941
an ANZAC in the family
My husband's aunt, Flossie, adored this exotic uncle who appeared on fleeting visits when she was a child and sent postcards, just for her, enclosed in the letters to her parents. Half Japanese, he was, in turn, a sailor, soldier, farmer and spy.
Read it HERE
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A Gartside Sent to Van Diemen's Land: "Man's Inhumanity to Man"
About a Saddleworth/Oldham, man who was transported in 1833, for stealing 5 waistcoats.
by Sheila Goodyear
Read it HERE
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Votes for Women! including an account of Oldham Women's Suffrage Society.
by Sheila Goodyear
Read it HERE
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Oldham Theatre Royal: 'The Jones Boys' :A Memoir by Bernie Burgess
by Alex Balmforth
Read it HERE
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Victorian Architecture and Society
by Alex Balmforth
Read it HERE
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Domestic Building 1899 – 1970
by Alex Balmforth
Read it HERE
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Alphabetical STREET INDEX for 24 of the ALAN GODFREY MAPS
in the Greater Manchester area. Map Scale 1:25000
The maps all come folded with 10 parts; 2 rows of 5.
A1 to A5 top and B1 to B5 bottom, eg. 'OLDHAM 1907, Ainsworth St , B1'
Find it HERE
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Wrigley Head Chapel - The Plaque from Stories of, 'Robert a' t' View'
by Florence M. Goodyear (Flossie) 1902-1996
Read it HERE
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Failsworth Wesleyan Day School from Stories of, 'Robert a' t' View'
by Florence M. Goodyear (Flossie) 1902-1996
Read it HERE
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Oldham Stories' ... a collection of short stories from an Oldham childhood in the early years of the 20th century, 30 of which have been transcribed.
by Mary Dickinson
Read it HERE
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Edward Garside Whitehead , 1896-1917
Family, WW1, Grenadier Guards and Paschendaele
by Sheila Goodyear
Read it HERE
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Oldham Men & The Battle of 3rd Ypres, Passchendaele, July 31st to November 1917
by Sheila Goodyear
Read it HERE
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Conscientious Objection after the Military Service Act of 1916
by Sheila Goodyear & Dorothy Bintley
Read it HERE
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'A Night with Peterloo Veterans'
From the Oldham Chronicle, November 29th, 1884
Read it HERE
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'Historical Sketches of Oldham'
by Edwin Butterworth Pub. 1856
Read it HERE
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'Oldham Terriers -Their Part in the War'
by Sgt. Maurice Bradbury, M.M.
Transcriptions of a series of articles published in the Oldham 'Standard' in Spring 1919
Read it HERE
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The Oldham Battalion of Comrades' Pub. 1920 ...
24th Battalion Manchester Regiment.
Book of Honour
Read it HERE
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From: Oldham Centenary : 1849 - 1949
Chapter - Local History of the Administration of the Poor Laws
and Public Assistance up to Their Final Abolition on the 4th of July 1948
Read it HERE
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From: Oldham Centenary : 1849 - 1949
Chapter - History of the Education Department :
Early Days to the Advent of the School
Read it HERE
'Links to articles on OHRG websites' ...
a full list (up to March 2021) of the above, downloadable, as a .pdf with the links,
from the Miscellany page