The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

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Good images of the shops,for future Marpudlians to remember the past, the file 39/54 was a Fish & Poultry Shop were the Pram Shop is now next to Perennial Windows.

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Uploading of photos from the Marple 2000 Millennium Project has begun this morning.

Local photographer David Brindley worked on this Lottery funded project with Marple Local History Society for over twelve months during the year 2000. The objective was to create a photographic archive of Marple at the turn of the millennium, the old postcards of tomorrow so to speak. Their efforts culminated in an exhibition in Marple Library during May 2001 that featured shots of people and places in Marple taken during millennium year. We have now been given access to the archives and will be putting them on-line progressively, hopefully enlisting David’s help with the captions.

As there is a Food and Drink Festival Street Market on Market Street tomorrow "Local Shops" seemed to be a good place to start. If you can tell us more about the people or places in these photos then please let us know.

Here's the link to the new section of the Tour: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/index.php?cat=31

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Photos of the Merchant Navy Day Ceremony held in Memorial Park last Sunday taken by Ray Noble have been added to the Tour this morning. http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

Although you can't really tell from these photos I understand that the attendance was poor and Ron Singleton has decided not to organise the ceremony again in the future. The flag will still be flown in the park during the week of Merchant Navy Day.

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A dozen photos from Marple Carnival 2009 taken by Julian Winstanley have been uploaded to the Tour this morning, see http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-70

Better late than never, due to technical issues with the CD and failing memory (mine not the computer!)

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12 more images from the 1993 Marple Civic Society Exhibition of Listed Buildings have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning. http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=30

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Four new images have been added to the Tour this morning. One is a picture of Hawk Green provided by Coral Dranfield and another is a watercolour painting of Marple Hall sent by a descendant of the Hodgkinson family that owned Hollins Mill (with the Carvers). That prompted me to add the images of the Recreation Ground Medal, which we've had on the main site since we wrote in the Community News.

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

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12 more images from the 1993 Marple Civic Society Exhibition of Listed Buildings have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning. http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=30

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Some photos from yesterday's Locks Festival have been added to the Tour this evening. If you have any you'd like to share just send them in! http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=72

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Book sold out by midday. Ray

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During tomorrow's Locks Festival look out for the brand new book "Marple & District Through Time" on the Stockport Heritage tent. The book is a fresh look at Marple through old postcards and photographs alongside present day shots and has been produced by Steve Cliffe and Coral Dranfield of Stockport Heritage Trust.

The majority of the old photos in the book were provided by us from the Virtual Tour and there is a great acknowledgement at the end explaining this and asking folks to get in touch with us if they have photos to share.

We're really pleased that our efforts to build the "Tour" over the last few years have supported the production of this book and congratulate Steve and Coral on their great work.

Ray - you get a mention in the acknowledgements too 

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Seven new images were added to the Tour last night (captioned this morning) including another find of Ray's featuring All Saints' School children from the 1940s. There is also a lantern slide of Marple Hall, a copy of the warrant for the execution of King Charles I and a few postcards recently acquired.

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

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A series of photographs taken during the 1990 "Oldknow 200" Festival have been added to a new Events Album on the Virtual Tour this morning. These have kindly been provided by Ann Hearle of Marple Local History Society. Now that they are on-line Ann will be giving us some more details to enable the captions to be improved.

"Oldknow 200" was a two week long festival held in 1990 to celebrate the achievements of Samuel Oldknow and the bicentenary of the erection of Mellor Mill. The event must have provided numerous photo opportunities and we hope that local people will be inspired to dig through their drawers to and find more pictures from the celebrations that we can add to this album to make it more representative of the whole festival.

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=71

Incidentally, these additions take the number of images in the Tour to more than 3,000.

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12 more images from the 1993 Marple Civic Society Exhibition of Listed Buildings have been added to the Virtual Tour this evening. http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=30

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As promised more photos of Marple Carnival, these from Ray Noble, have been added to the 2009 Carnival album this morning: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=70
 

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Three dozen Marple Carnival pictures have been uploaded to a new album in the Virtual Tour this evening. Have already received some more from Ray Noble and these should be on-line in the morning. If anyone else has any more photos from the day please get in touch or email them through. Here a link to the new Carnival 2009 album: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=70

Looks like Sarah had a good day despite the weather: