Joseph Rayner Stephens, P. M. McDouall, John Bradley, and Cotton Tree, Hyde blue plaque

Hyde, Tameside, England, United Kingdom

The Cotton Tree public house Opened in 1830 and so named as it coincided with the opening of the cotton mills in the Newton area by the Ashton Brothers. Features prominently in the Chartist movement, largely because Joseph Rayner Stephens, Dr. P. M. McDouall and John Bradley were arrested as a resul

t of a meeting held here on 28th July 1839 A popular meeting place for the local Chartists where crowds would meet after dark with firearms and banners to further their cause for political and social

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