now occupied by John and Frank Gillham, Esqrs.,hat manufacturers. There was a second old residence of the name of Pawletts, situated near the top of Lord-street. In 1759 it was the dwelling of Mr. Edward Barlow, whose ancestor, Mr. Barlow, living in 1702, possessed lands in Oldham. The descendants of the Barlows, of Pawletts, are still inhabitants of Oldham. On the site of Frank Hill, the mansion of James Barker, Esq., but now occupied by the family of the late Henry Radcliffe, Esq., clerk to the magistrates, there stood a tenement called Old Frank's which, in 1725, was the property of John Lyons, Esq., of Lees Hall. Adjacent to the mansion, are the residences of Mr. John Robinson and Mr. George Buckley. High Field, near Maygate-lane, was once the dwelling of George Worthington, yeoman, who died in 1772, and was father of Mr. George Worthington, of Werneth Hall. High-field is now the property and residence of Abraham Clegg, Esq., J .P. A few paces from here is Scholes Fold, nearly concealed by modern cottages. James Scholes, yeoman, was living in 1681. Coldhurst Fold was upwards of a century and a half the abode of a branch of the Garsides, of Denshaw, in Saddleworth, one of whose descendants married Mr. Samuel Elson, who was himself lineally descended from the ancient family of the Elsons, of Brockholes, near Preston. Wallwork Fold, a few houses adjacent to Barker-street, received its name from Mr. John Wallwork, a person of considerable substance in his day, and a farmer, at Royley, in Royton, in 1752. This individual was- remarkable for the great number of cottages he erected in Oldham, as speculations of his own, at the time the cotton manufacture was becoming fully developed by aid of machinery.

Swine Clough, an ancient farm a short distance to the west of Glodwick, was purchased in 1670 by Adam Ogden,. the elder, from Edmund Assheton, Esq., of Chadderton. The Ogdens enjoyed this estate for several

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