The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

[admin]

A range of black and white negatives from a Marple Local History Society folder entitled "Odds and Ends" have been scanned and uploaded to the Virtual Tour this morning. The main topics of these are the Apprentice Houses at Bottoms Hall, the Aqueduct and the Canal and Locks. The canal and aqueduct images are clearly labelled as being taken in November 1967 and it's assumed that the others are around the same period.

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

There are also some mystery people and locations and I'm hoping that local visitors may be able to help identify who and where some of these are:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=33

[admin]

Unfortunately due to the thunderstorm this morning an exchange of posts between Dave and me has been lost.

Dave managed to help identify the mystery mill in one of the images uploaded yesterday as Primrose Mill, and the captions have been amended.

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

[admin]

A hand-full of Marple Bridge related images from Marple Local History Society's Archive have been added to the tour this morning:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

More to come soon.....making the most of the weather!

[admin]

The Virtual Tour has been upgraded so that video from Youtube (and other sources) can be embedded within the albums.

A short video from the Locks Festival by Arthur Procter has been used to test it - seems to work fine:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=8489

[admin]

There must be an original somewhere but the source image for the photo on the Tour is a photo of a newspaper cutting. Here's a larger version, which is actually much bigger than the source itself.

This is the best we can do unless a proper photo version turns up (click it for larger version):

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[Howard]

A handful of older images have been squeezed in between the Carnival uploads to the Virtual Tour this morning.

These include some shots of Harold E Shaw Butcher of Marple Bridge, an old but undated aerial view of Marple and some photos of a commemorative key from the 1893 opening of Marple Bridge Co-Op.

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

I don't suppose we have any idea of whether there is an original photo of the arial view anywhere? That's quite fascinating and I'd love to know what date it was taken. It looks pre-swimming baths to me but the quality's not really good enough for a more detailed analysis.

I found my house, standing all alone on the edge of the village whereas now, it's a few minute's walk from the centre.

[admin]

A selection of images of the Spade Forge / Forge Bank Mill from Marple Local History Society Archives have been uploaded to the Marple Bridge album on the Virtual Tour this morning:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-30

There's an unknown gent and an unknown object - if you know anything about these please get in touch.

[admin]

A handful of older images have been squeezed in between the Carnival uploads to the Virtual Tour this morning.

These include some shots of Harold E Shaw Butcher of Marple Bridge, an old but undated aerial view of Marple and some photos of a commemorative key from the 1893 opening of Marple Bridge Co-Op.

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

[admin]

A Baker's Dozen of new local images from Marple Local History Society have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

[admin]

27 new images from a new Marple Local History Society folder have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning. There are a few mystery photos included, so if you can help with more details please post here or get in touch by email.

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

[admin]

The chap on the far left of the picture is definitely my grandad, George Williamson, and year is 1923.

Thanks for the info SGK, I've added it as a comment to the image - but as a registered user of the Tour you should be able to do it yourself if you wanted.

More details in this thread http://www.marple-uk.com/smf/index.php?topic=3381.0

[sgk]

A new album has been created on the Virtual Tour this morning to hold photos of Ludworth School. This is due to the addition of a large number of new images from Marple Local History Society's Archives mainly relating to headmaster Mr Harold Butterworth's reign between 1912 and (based on the pictures) the early 1930s. All images relating to Ludworth School in a variety of other albums have hopefully been tracked down and moved to this album too.

If anyone can add names to faces or firm up dates, most of which I've judged based on the extent of Mr Butterworth's hair loss, then please get in touch.

The complete Ludworth album can be viewed using this link: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=113

The photograph http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?album=113&pid=6043 has caption "Pupils at Ludworth School with headmaster Mr. Harold Butterworth. Undated but probably in the late 1920s or early 1930s. From Marple Local History Society Archives.".

The chap on the far left of the picture is definitely my grandad, George Williamson, and year is 1923.

[admin]

Several new images of people from Marple and Mellor's past (and present) have been added to the Virtual History Tour this morning:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=26

[admin]

Just browsed through another folder and discovered the names of the young girls in the Hawk Green Milkmaid photo!

Hawk Green Milkmaids: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=589

[admin]

Two dozen mixed images from Marple Local History Society Archives have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

In addition, better copies of the following images have been added:

Hawk Green Milkmaids: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=589

Flooding at Chadkirk: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=362 and one of the chaps in the photo identified.

And the dignitaries at the Dedication of Marple War Memorial in 1992 have been identified:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=1196

And one of our WWI unknown soldiers has been also identified as Percy Marsland of Mellor:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=5344