Description | Fox and Shirt families: - Farm and personal accounts, 1730-1900; Edale Head Shooting Club rules and regulations; concert programmes 1899; specifications for a bridge at Upper Booth, 1837; - George William Shirt: deeds and case papers re the sale to the Midland Railway (Dore and Chinley) 1890 and to the right of road at Edale, 1890-1894; - Farming and provision account books, 1872-1896 (2 vols). - Mourning cards 1860-1920, for members of the Carrington, Lowe, Shirt and Tym families
Miss A. Tym: Edale Services Comforts' Fund papers, 1940-1945; Collectors accounts (10 vols); Receipts books, bank book and loose papers
Copy Electoral Register for Edale, 1913.
Edale Society: File of papers relating to the activities of the Society; papers and photographs on the Agricultural Exhibition, Jul 1978; correspondence on the oral history project.
Edale Public Reading Room and Library Club: Rules (revised) for Edale, undated
Local Red Cross Fund: Programme for the 22nd Anniversary Soiree Entertainment, Jan 1916; press cutting and notes on the history of the Soiree, which helped to support the library (founded 1863).
Derwent Valley Water Board: Weekly reports, 1950-1970 (10 vols); Noe diversion, Edale.
Kinder Players: Receipts, including subscriptions; accounts and receipted bills, 1946-1960; programmes and typescript text of a play about Robin Hood.
Title deeds re lands at Whitmore Lee Booth, 1811, including a schedule dating from 1695 (Orme - Trustees of the Methodist Chapel).
Sale particulars relating to properties in Edale, 1869 and 1904, with plans; and Marple/Disley, 1796.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph: supplements on Queen Victoria and Edward VII, 1901, 1910; 'Ideas' Christmas number, Dec 1913. |
Administrative History | These records were collected, and in some cases created by, The Edale Society. |
Custodial History | Deposited in Derbyshire Record Office in February 1985. |