The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

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The Virtual Tour has been updated with some 1980 carnival photos from ray Noble plus a couple of his grandson Ryan, who is now a member of the Life Guards band.

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

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Photographs by Arthur Procter of the 2012 Chadkirk Festival have been added to the album created for the Chadkirk Bridge Opening last weekend:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=128

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And now we have some photos from Arthur at Otterspool and Chadkirk showing the river in spate. Some of the bank has been washed away at Otterspool and the temporary causeway at Chadkirk has gone completely:

Chadkirk Bridge:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-21

Otterspool Bridge Hydro:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-40

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Photos of Chadkirk Bridge being lifted into place on Wednesday by Arthur Procter and David Burridge have been uploaded to the Virtual Tour this morning:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-21

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We now have Carnival Photos from Arthur Procter too:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-125

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With thanks to Ray Noble, David Burridge and Rick Wood, the first Marple Carnival Photos are now on-line:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=125

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Updates on Marple Station Improvements, Otterspool Bridge Hydro and Chadkirk Bridge Construction from Arthur Procter and Bill Beard have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning:

Chadkirk Bridge:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-21

Otterspool Bridge Hydro:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-40

Marple Station:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-23

We also have some Marple Methodist Church photos from the 1950s from Ray Noble:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-36

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To prove it's been raining Ray Noble has sent in some photos of the River Goyt at Otterspool taken yesterday:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-40

[Miss Marple]

How posh you had to be to go into the Copper Kettle,  as children we went over the road to the milk bar  Wonderful memories !

[Stockport Classic Bus]

A fantastic piece of local history. Great to see these images. Especially the [now] classic cars 

[wheels]

Really really interesting I wasn't in Marple at the time but things look as if they have improve considerably.

Thanks for putting them up.

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A brand new album featuring photos of Marple District Centre taken by Marple UDC in 1970 and stored in Marple Local History Society archives has been added to the Virtual Tour over the last couple of days. This is a fascinating snapshot of local history and documents a major change to the town centre. Interesting that it has found it's way to the top of the pile of folders at a time when new changes seem to be afoot for this area of the town!

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=124

If you spot any errors or improvements in the captions, please let me know.

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Added to the Virtual Tour today are some Jinks family photos from Marple Local History Society Archives. Unfortunately these are scans from poor quality photo copies, so they are not great images. What a shame we can't get our hands on the originals to scan properly 

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

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Catching up with local construction developments and photos sent in during the last week from Arthur Procter, Bill Beard and David Burridge, we have the latest shots from Marple Station, Otterspool Hydro and Chadkirk Bridge here:

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

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Arthur Procter has taken photos of Dan Bank in approximately the same positions for the last 4 years, before during and after the stabilisation works.

Spring has been a little later this year but we now have the 2012 photos on line:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-40

In the same album are some new photos from Bill Beard of the Otterspool Bridge Hydro Power scheme.

Also, Bill has sent in some photos of flooding at Cataract Mill:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-36