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Auction No 424, Category: Local History

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

The Speight family, photographers of Market Harborough, Kettering and Nuneaton: a collection of portrait photographs in modern album, and loose,

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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The Speight family, photographers of Market Harborough, Kettering and Nuneaton: a collection of portrait photographs in modern album, and loose, comprising 19th Century cabinet photos (16) and carte-de-visite (6), and early-20th Century PC size photos (10); together with topographical PPCs (25) issued by Clare Speight mostly views of Warwickshire plus few Blackpool. VG/VF (57)

E. H. Speight of Rugby, photographer: a collection of 19th Century carte-de-visite (40) and cabinet portrait photographs, plus a church interior,

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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E. H. Speight of Rugby, photographer: a collection of 19th Century carte-de-visite (40) and cabinet portrait photographs, plus a church interior, housed in a modern album. Good to VF (47). Also a portrait photo c.1910, and a modern reproduction of Speight in old age with his wife.

John Graves "The History of Cleveland, in the North Riding of the County of York", Carlisle,1808, complete with fine folding map & pedigree,

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £64
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John Graves The History of Cleveland, in the North Riding of the County of York, Carlisle, 1808, complete with fine folding map & pedigree, & nine engraved topographical plates; quarto, 19th Cent. half-leather with gilt title label, hinges worn (still holding); the additional engraved title page stained & browned, some occasional browning elsewhere but generally VG internally, no inscriptions. Together with Frank Elgee Early Man in North-East Yorkshire, 1930, ex-library; and Elgee's The Moorlands of North Eastern Yorkshire, A. Brown & Sons, 1912, orig. gilt cloth, VG. (3)

Parliamentary Papers, two bound volumes comprising 1852 Report from the Select Committee on Manchester and Salford Education, 603pp,

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Parliamentary Papers, two bound volumes comprising 1852 Report from the Select Committee on Manchester and Salford Education, 603pp, fifteen coloured maps/plans bound in at rear, all with faults; together with 1852-53 part two of the Report, bound with Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Devon and Dorset Railway Bill and a Report on Communication between London and Dublin. Gilt cloth bindings, VG; ex-library. (2)

"The Manchester Genealogist" 2007 to 2022, 43 issues; Journal of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 9 issues 1970s/90s;

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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The Manchester Genealogist 2007 to 2022, 43 issues; Journal of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 9 issues 1970s/90s; The Manchester Review, 10 issues, mainly 1930s; and four other journals.

Legal Documents (8) on vellum and paper, Lancs & Cheshire related, including 1853 & 1871 Assignments relating to land at Barlow's Croft, Salford;

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Legal Documents (8) on vellum and paper, Lancs & Cheshire related, including 1853 & 1871 Assignments relating to land at Barlow's Croft, Salford; 1882 Conveyance concerning an Estate & Premises at Brook Meadow, Elton, nr. Bury; 1797 Lease of houses in Cheadle Hulme; 1929 Lease of land at Nether Alderley; and a 1915 Abstract of Title on 24 large sheets relating to Lady Francis Cecil & her Settlement Trustees and lands at Cheadle Bulkeley. VG condition; together with vendor's detailed descriptive notes.

Manchester Grammar School related books (4), prospectus (2), and magazines, mostly 1960s/1980s. VG condition. (22)

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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Manchester Grammar School related books (4), prospectus (2), and magazines, mostly 1960s/1980s. VG condition. (22)

"Kelly's Directory of Manchester, Salford and Stretford" for 1951 and 1957; the 1951 edition in poor condition but text intact;

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Kelly's Directory of Manchester, Salford and Stretford for 1951 and 1957; the 1951 edition in poor condition but text intact; together with Edward Baines History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 1824-25, 2 vols, rebound, lacking maps o/w VG. (5)           

Documents & ephemera including Birth Certificates 1867-77 for Edward Frank, Isabella and Fanny Newman of Congleton, and later related items

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Documents & ephemera including Birth Certificates 1867-77 for Edward Frank, Isabella and Fanny Newman of Congleton, and later related items concerning Fanny Dinnis (nee Newman) of Clitheroe and Manchester including a grant of probate (1930), various photos, and 1901 letters (3) from Edward Frank Newman, merchant seaman, one from Hong Kong. (Qty.)     

Scrapbook 1853-1856 compiled by William Rayner, Mayor of Stockport, items tipped-in or loose, including 1853 Mayoral Procession notice,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £70
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Scrapbook 1853-1856 compiled by William Rayner, Mayor of Stockport, items tipped-in or loose, including 1853 Mayoral Procession notice, 1853 Stockport Infirmary Annual Ball, 1854 Goldsmiths' Hall menu & invitation, 1855 Dinner Invitation in honour of the 2nd Regt. of Royal Cheshire Militia, 1854 Patriotic Fund notice for bereaved relatives arising from the Crimean War and related printed letter ink-signed by William Rayner, and other items (some laid down). Also 1877 notices of fund-raising events for the Stockport Infirmary and the repair of Stockport Armoury. Also many news-cuttings, mostly laid down. (Qty)