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
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
'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
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
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
Votes for Women! including an account of Oldham Women's Suffrage Society.
by Sheila Goodyear
Read it HERE
Oldham Theatre Royal: 'The Jones Boys' :A Memoir by Bernie Burgess
by Alex Balmforth
Read it HERE
Victorian Architecture and Society
by Alex Balmforth
Read it HERE
Domestic Building 1899 – 1970
by Alex Balmforth
Read it HERE
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
Wrigley Head Chapel - The Plaque from Stories of, 'Robert a' t' View'
by Florence M. Goodyear (Flossie) 1902-1996
Read it HERE
Failsworth Wesleyan Day School from Stories of, 'Robert a' t' View'
by Florence M. Goodyear (Flossie) 1902-1996
Read it HERE
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
Edward Garside Whitehead , 1896-1917
Family, WW1, Grenadier Guards and Paschendaele
by Sheila Goodyear
Read it HERE
Oldham Men & The Battle of 3rd Ypres, Passchendaele, July 31st to November 1917
by Sheila Goodyear
Read it HERE
Conscientious Objection after the Military Service Act of 1916
by Sheila Goodyear & Dorothy Bintley
Read it HERE
'A Night with Peterloo Veterans'
From the Oldham Chronicle, November 29th, 1884
Read it HERE
'Historical Sketches of Oldham'
by Edwin Butterworth Pub. 1856
Read it HERE
'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
The Oldham Battalion of Comrades' Pub. 1920 ...
24th Battalion Manchester Regiment.
Book of Honour
Read it HERE
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
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