The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

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Some vintage carnival photos from Axel Thomas have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning. Have you got any like these tucked away in a drawer? Wouldn't it be fun to share them?

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-34

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I've just uploaded the 5,000th image to the Virtual Tour and to commemorate this milestone I've made sure it's a special one that I've been saving from Marple Local History Society's Archives. It's of the Carver family on the steps of Hollins House in 1904 during the celebrations of Thomas and Hannah Carver's Golden Wedding anniversary.

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-5156

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You're right BS, it's looking along Highfield Road off Union Road in the direction of Stockport. On Google Streetmaps there's enough detail to recognise the houses/walls on the left-hand side of the picture. Well done. Another person emailed me with the same suggestion too.

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-5088

[sooty2]

It was past the Post Office going down stockport Road.I think it is the Kinaray now.The green area to the right of the picture is still there.

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I think the unknown workshop could be the old Grandalek t.v company, it was behind the shops on stockport Rd behind what was the Mysore Indian restaurant.

Where was the Mysore Restaurant? I seem to have missed that one.

[sooty2]

Also ,if it is where I think it is, the road is still unadopted and a terrace of houses now stands on the site of Grandalek.

[sooty2]

I think the unknown workshop could be the old Grandalek t.v company, it was behind the shops on stockport Rd behind what was the Mysore Indian restaurant.

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Photographs from a Marple Local History Society folder entitled "People Named" (which is not a totally accurate title) have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning. These include some mysterious people and locations and if you can shed any light on them it would be greatly appreciated.

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

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The last 15 images from the History Society's folder that focuses mainly on Church Lane have been added to the tour this morning. Unfortunately the quality of some of them is not brilliant - many are from photocopies rather than originals - but that doesn't seem to be a good enough reason to omit them.

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

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It doesn't take long to get answers round here! Thanks to Ray Noble we now know exactly where that private car park that was confusing me was located. It was pretty much in the middle of what is now Hibbert Lane, see the two photos below. Notice the circular "thing" at the apex of the garage on the right - amazingly it is still there. Also the down pipes and soil pipes at the back of the news agents on the left all tie up nicely. So the houses in the middle are the ones demolished to make way for the road. Well done Ray!

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A dozen new images from Marple Local History Society's archives have been added this morning. These mostly feature Church Lane and there are several of the junction of Church Lane and Hibbert Lane before the houses between there and Stockport Road were demolished to make way for the extension of Hibbert Lane. There is one picture of a car park that I'm not sure about the location of. Can anyone help?

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

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New photos taken by Arthur Procter on the Virtual Tour tonight include Breast Cancer Awareness day at Bare Necessities on 30 October, the closure celebrations at House of Flowers after 40 years trading in Marple and some from his own exhibition that finished yesterday. Put your feet up Arthur!

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

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Four images provided to Marple Local History Society by Marshall Shaw have been added to the Tour tonight. These include a rare one of Marple Recreation Ground showing what must be the very first playground equipment ever installed there.

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

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Some photos of Frank Tunstall and his wife and family have been added to the Virtual Tour this evening. Frank was caretaker at Marple Hall up until 1932. Until these images were provided by Barbara Kay (Frank was her Great-Uncle) there was only one photo of him at the hall, one of his wife and several of their children, so it's great to have them. There was also a postcard of the hall sent by Frank and his wife Rosalind to his family in Warrington.

The best link to use to find the people photos is this one:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-45

And here's the postcard:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=4

Barbara understands that Rosalind Tunstall (nee Wallis) suffered from depression (as we would know it now) after the birth of their second child and was placed into a private institution and never came out. She also understands that Rosie's family were the Wallis's of the Manchester outfitters fame and it was they who paid for her care. If anyone has any information about this then it would be great to pass it on to Barbara.

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A new album has been added to the Virtual Tour this evening with a few photos of Marple Local History Society's 1996 exhibition featuring Marple Hall. These are the last from the current batch of folders that I have from Marple Local History Society's Archives and I will hopefully swap them for some new ones in the next week or so to continue uploading and making them available on-line. I always look forward to a new batch of files as I have no idea what will be next!

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=99