26 yeomen and 8 labourers. These would be drawn from a very wide area. The present church was opened as Hatherlow Congregational Church in 1845, although the burial ground surrounding it goes back to 1793. A day school was established in 1780 at Bredbury Old School on School Brow and the building known as Top School on Gorsey Brow, now partially demolished, was built in 1830 as an overflow. The day school continued until it was succeeded by the Council school at Barrack Hill in 1909. Hatherlow Sunday School was established in May 1817; it was first held at School Brow and then at the Top School. The present Sunday School was built in 1911. The church has always been the centre of cultural activity in the district; it was the home of the former Bredbury Amicable Subscription Library, founded in 1822, and later of Hatherlow Botanical Society. Notable people Danny Miller (born 1991), award-winning actor, currently working on Emmerdale as Aaron (Dingle) Livesy Will Mellor (born 1976), actor and amateur pop star Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley (1744–1804), Solicitor General, Attorney General and politician Charles Clay (1801–1893), surgeon Robert Robinson (1726–1791), clergyman Peter Charles Snape (born 1942), politician Mike Yarwood (born 1941), impressionist John Agecroft John Agecroft (1716–1804) lived in a cottage at Barrack Hill where, until the end of the 19th century, a crude bust stood in a niche on the outer wall. A canvass weaver, bookbinder and well-known local eccentric, he is said to have conceived the idea of the bust from that of William Shakespeare at Stratford upon Avon, and to have made the matrix by pushing his face into the hardening mud of a ditch. The bust, or part of it, in the form of a death mask, was on display in the Council Chamber when Agecroft Road was named. Edward McLellan Born in Redhouse Lane, the son of the village clogger, Edward McLellan (1870–1967) attended St Mark's School. It speaks much for the quality of education there, under the headmaster Silas Whipp, that without further formal education he was able to enter Hartley College, the Primitive Methodist Ministers' Training college, from which he embarked on 47 years of active ministry. In 1931 he reached the highest point he could attain in his vocation when he was elected President of the Primitive Methodist Conference. He published many articles and stories in magazines and wrote