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Title: Steps across from All Saints Church
Post by: Miss Marple on July 04, 2010, 03:56:06 PM
Does anyone know what the steps are across from All Saints Church are ?  At school we were told that they were a bolt hole for a priest and that the passage led down to the Canal.  I contacted All Saints via their web page but they too were unsure what the steps were and said that they had nothing to do with the church  ???
Title: Re: Steps across from All Saints Church
Post by: Jay on July 04, 2010, 07:52:51 PM
On the ordinance survey map c1875 it is a well. Ray.

If you do a search on the forum it's been bought up a few times. I only remember as I used to play round there a child, that's why it stuck in my head. I had all sorts of wild imaginings of what it was back then! I was disappointed to find out it's just an old well   ::)
Title: Re: Steps across from All Saints Church
Post by: My login is Henrietta on July 06, 2010, 10:12:17 AM
On the ordinance survey map c1875 it is a well. Ray.

If you do a search on the forum it's been bought up a few times. I only remember as I used to play round there a child, that's why it stuck in my head. I had all sorts of wild imaginings of what it was back then! I was disappointed to find out it's just an old well   ::)
Yep, my Dad who moved to Marple in 1926 when he was six and was a chorister at All Saints told me that it was a well.