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Showing posts with label mottram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mottram. Show all posts
Sunday, 4 November 2012

4th November 1812: Dinner held for Captain Francis Raynes in Mottram-in-Longdendale

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On Wednesday 4th November 1812, a dinner was held in Mottram-in-Longdendale, Cheshire to pay tribute to Captain Francis Raynes, the special ...
Friday, 2 November 2012

2nd November 1812: Captain Francis Raynes writes of a Luddite plot to attack a Mail Coach

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Old Hall near Mottram 2 November 1812 Sir, I have the Honor to inform you, I was not able to see Clough till last night. The account ...
Friday, 24 August 2012

24th August 1812: General Maitland writes to the Home Office about the success of his 'experiment' in Cheshire

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Wakefield 24th August 1812 My dear Lord You will of course have seen the Communications I have had with Becket. I have now the satis...
Thursday, 23 August 2012

23rd August 1812: Luddites begin to appear in Stockport to take the Oath of Allegiance to the King

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Stockport 23rd August, 1812. My Lord— Yesterday twenty-five of the Luddites in the neighbourhood of Mottram the most disturb’d district ...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012

25th July 1812: Captain Francis Raynes informs General Maitland of a Luddite meeting near Stockport

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The Arden Arms on Ashton Road, Bredbury - photo copyright David Dixon Roe cross near Mottram 25th July 1812 Sir, I think it necess...
Sunday, 15 July 2012

15th July 1812: Captain Francis Raynes has a meeting with General Maitland

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On Wednesday 15th July 1812, the commander of the Special Forces detachment of the Stirlingshire Militia based at Mottram in Cheshire, Capta...
Thursday, 5 July 2012

5th July 1812: Captain Francis Raynes almost triggers a riot near Mottram in Cheshire

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Captain Francis Raynes and his Special Forces detachment were busy suppressing the local population of the area surrounding Mottram, in Ches...
Sunday, 24 June 2012

24th June 1812: General Acland gives orders to the special forces detachment of Captain Francis Raynes

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(Confidential.) Captain Raynes will proceed with the detachment under his command, this day, to Dukinfield; where he will endeavour to proc...
Friday, 22 June 2012

22nd June 1812: General Maitland gives orders for the use of Special Forces on the borders of Yorkshire, Lancashire & Cheshire

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Buxton 22nd June 1812 Dear Acland We must certainly try some thing in the subject of that part of the Country above Ashton, I am entire...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

14th June 1812: Luddites drill in the daytime near Ashton-under-Lyne

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Although Luddites were well-known for conducting meetings and drilling under the cover of darkness in the night-time, on Sunday 14th June 18...
Thursday, 7 June 2012

7th June 1812: The Manchester spy 'B' meets a Liverpool delegate and hears of soldiers taking the Luddite oath in Mottram

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Colonel Fletcher's spy in Manchester, 'B' aka John Bent, submitted another report ending on Sunday 7th June 1812. On 2nd June,...
Monday, 21 May 2012

21st May 1812: Captain Francis Raynes encounters Luddites assembling near Mottram at night

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Captain Francis Raynes was an officer in the Stirlingshire Militia, a Regiment which had recently been sent into the North from their quarte...
Tuesday, 17 January 2012

17th January 1812: The Manchester spy, B, meets another Irish contact & visits Stockport

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Colonel Fletcher's spy, 'B' , filed another report on the 17th January. Commencing on the 14th January, B explained he had a m...
Tuesday, 27 December 2011

27th December 1811: The spy 'B' reports about a planned strike in Stockport and of travelling delegates

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Colonel Fletcher's agent, 'B' , compiled another report for his employer, commencing the 23rd December. He reported that on th...
Sunday, 11 December 2011

11th December 1811: The spy 'B' reports on a Sheffield contact and delegates heading to Yorkshire

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Colonel Fletcher's spy 'B' sent another report headed the 9th December about his activities in the political underground of Lanc...
Monday, 10 October 2011

10th October 1811: a letter from a Lancashire informant

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On the 10th October 1811, Colonel Ralph Fletcher , a JP, Local Militia Commander and member of the Orange Order at Bolton-le-Moors, receive...