The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

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Just added a postcard of Mellor provided by Ray Noble (thanks Ray) and a recent Marple Hall acquisition that just turned up today. Use the last update link in the previous post.

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Couldn't resist going straight for the Marple Hall folder from Marple Local History Society's latest batch of archives and here they are: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

There's a lot of stuff similar to what everyone will have seem before but also some great new images too. I make no aplogies for including every variant of the classic shot of the hall, even though many of them are quite alike.

I was also able to replace a number of images with better copies and these are linked below:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-75
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-84
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-63
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Also, when you are looking, don't forget this map of the Marple Hall site that helps to orientate yourself when trying to figure out where some of the images were taken.

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-1431

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Several images provided by John Rishworth, a gentleman of 78 years who was born at Peace Farm, have been added to the Tour this evening, along with an image of Strines Railway sent in by Ray Noble. Unfortunately John was not prepared to part with his photos when he visited Marple Local History Society's archives so they had to be photocopied rather than scanned. The quality is therefore not as good as it might be but the content does make up for it. John's father, John Senior, served in All Saints' Choir for an amazing 71 years. Now that IS long service!

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

I now have the next lot of folders from Marple Local History Society including one covering Marple Hall 

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The last dozen images from Marple Local History Society's folders on churches have been uploaded to the Virtual Tour this morning. These include several poor photo-copies of some very battered images taken at Compstall Rose Queen Festival in 1909. The good thing is they have the details and date of what they were and despite their condition they make interesting viewing. You may notice that one or two are rather 'politically incorrect' by today's standards but they are of their time. See http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

In addition, the following existing images have been updated and in the case of the St. Mary's Communion group, most of the names have been identified.

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-1009
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-280

I have no idea what folders MLHS will provide next but I'm looking forward to finding out 

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Some more recent images uploaded to the tour this morning featuring the All Star Brass Band Concert at the Ring o' Bells taken by Ray Noble and from the Tours of Mellor Mill taken by Arthur Procter, see:

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

With Ray's help I've also verified that the "mystery" pulpit image is in fact from the New All Saints' Church, so that has been uploaded too.

Again with Ray's assistance we have also established that the photo featuring chauffeur Edwin Whitfield was not taken outside Beamsmoor and that the house was demolished in 1980/81. Unfortunately no known photos of it in the public domain at present.

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Continuing the addition of images from Marple Local History Society's Archives featuring churches, the folders covering Saint Martin's, Low Marple, and Saint Paul's, Compstall have been added this morning. These two churches now have their own albums:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=95

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=93

In one of the All Saints' folders is a picture of a pulpit annotated "Marple Ch. Pulpit, Roman Series" but on the back is written "Not All Saints' - Where?". This image is attached below, does anyone recognise it please?


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Images from two more of Marple Local History Society's folders on churches have been added to the tour this morning, these ones covering Congregational and Methodist churches. Use the new images link to view the latest uploads:

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

In addition, the following existing images have been replaced with better versions:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-333
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-768

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Images of All Saints' Churches and Almshouses from the second of Marple Local History Society's folders on churches have been uploaded to the new album for All Saints' this afternoon.

See http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-92

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A new image from Beth Bainbridge has been added this morning showing young ladies at the Hibbert Lane Congregational Church in 1908:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-4297

Beth has also identified her father, Hugh Lane, in one of the Albert School photos:
 
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-1837

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Images of All Saints' Church from the first of Marple Local History Society's archive folders on churches have been uploaded to the Virtual Tour this morning, along with a number of other non-copyrighted All Saints' related images from the Stockport Archives.

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

I've started to restructure the albums for churches and you can now see everything to do with All Saints' Church in this new album: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=92

There are two fascinating drawings from 1874 of what might have been - the plans to extend Samuel Oldknow's Georgian Church look fantastic - what a shame that the foundations were discovered to be inadequate:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-4291
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-4293

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Five images provided by Derek Whitfield featuring his father and grandfather, who lived on Derby Street in around 1910, and one from Brendon Fox of St. Mary's Roman Catholic School have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning. See http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup

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Four fantastic photos provided by Beth Bainbridge have been added to the Tour this morning, plus an equally great postcard view of Mill Brow showing how it got its name.

One of the photos provided by Beth includes a rare and tantalising glimpse of Rose Hill House.

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

These, plus the images from the carnival, have helped take the number of photos on the Tour past the 4,000 milestone and the number of images viewed to more than 760,000. That first million is coming into range!

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38 images from the David Brindley /  Marple Local History Society Millennium Project have been added to the Marple 2000 galleries this morning. If you can help improve the captions then just let me know!

See http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=31

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Doh! Thanks to Ray and Marveld I now realise that the photo of the station is from the opposite end to what I was thinking, taken from the bridge in Brabyns Park, which explains why I can't see the bridge / stairway down to the platform. They were both far too polite to post the error of my ways here . 

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Another dozen images, mostly of Marple Bridge and Town Street, have been added to the Tour this morning. http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

The following images have also been replaced with new copies:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-482
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-488
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-475

There is an image annotated as Marple Railway Station and it does look very much like it but doesn't seem quite right. Where is the North Platform entrance bridge shown on other photographs? It wasn't demolished until the 1960s so why is it not visible? Could this be a very early image from before it was built? What do you think?

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-4045