The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

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Last night a sequence of eleven photos of Strines Chimney coming down taken by Arthur Proctor were added to the Virtual Tour.

Because these are sequential, the best way to view them is to got to the first one in the "Other Events" Album and then use the slideshow feature by clicking the little clapperboard image to the left of where it says FILE 35/52.

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This afternoon a series of photos taken by Brian Noble during the replacement of the water wheel at the Little Mill at Rowarth have been added to the Tour, along with a single picture of local man Mike Callan, who in 1967 competed with Arnold Shwarzenegger for the Mr Universe title! All provided to us by Ray Noble.

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Last night six family photos of Betty Tunstall and other members of her family at Marple Hall were added to the Tour. Betty, who was the daughter of the caretaker, F. Tunstall, was born at the hall in 1923 and lived there until 1932. The photos were provided by Betty's own daughter, Betty Longmate, who says the family will see if they can find anymore - so keep your fingers crossed! Betty Snr. is now 83 years old.

Also added today is a plan view of Marple Hall, as requested by Denise some time ago, which may help you to work out where some of the Marple Hall photos were taken from.

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Twelve excellent quality colour slides of the Hollins Mill during demolition in 1957, taken by the late Paul Keen, have been added to the Tour this evening.

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A mixed bag of twelve different images provided by Ray Noble, Terry Wood and John & Barbara Mee have been added to the Virtual Tour this afternoon.

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Twelve images provided by Terry Wood have been added to the Virtual Tour this afternoon, including a couple of his grandfather, John Wood.

It's great to see that we'll soon have notched up 50,000 views of the pictures in the new format tour, which is good going since August!

If anyone out there has any new images, then please do get in touch but in the meantime we have more from Terry and from Ray Noble to add in the next week or so.

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Twelve images provided by Derek Aldred comprise our first additions to the Tour for 2007, including a great photograph of Compstall School children in 1923. Just look at the expression on the lad sat next to the teacher - Mrs Hinchcliffe must have ruled with an iron rod! Thanks to Derek, whose mother and mother-in-law named almost everyone in the group photos for him when they were in their 90s.

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Note: These new additions temporarily disappeared after our host moved us to a new server but they are back on-line now. Apologies for any confusion.

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The final 12 images from the collection of glass slides have been added to the tour this morning, plus two enlargements of the Marple Defense Corps, so you can see the faces properly. If you can put names to any of these then please do let us know.

We still have a fair backlog of photos to add, so keep coming back for more! Those of you patiently awaiting the photos you've provided to appear, please bear with us.
 

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Another 12 images from the collection of glass slides have been added to the tour this morning, especially for Christmas Day! Most of these ones feature Miss Fanny Hudson, her staff and casualties staying at Brabyns Hall during WW1, when it served as a Military Hospital.

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A dozen more images from the collection of glass slides have been added to the tour this morning. This time with a couple we are certain you've never seen before featuring 'Bobbin Mill' on Waterside when it was Marple Technical Institute, a cottage on the present day site of the Ring o' Bells car park and another of nearby Chapel Cottages.

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Twelve more images from the collection of glass slides have been added to the tour this evening, including several that we're pretty sure you will not have seen before!

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I had a map that shows the layout of some of the buildings but I can't seem to lay my hands on it at the moment - a good tidy up is called for! I'll upload it to the Tour when it turns up. In the meantime, here's our Christmas present to all you folks who enjoy the old photos in our Virtual Tour:

A gentleman from South Wales called Kevin Gilbert recently purchased a collection of nearly 70 glass negative slides as a job lot because some of them featured World War I soldiers (at Brabyns Hall Military Hospital). A few of the scenes were identifiable as being of Marple due to the writing on them so Kevin's son did an Internet search and found us. When Kevin saw our Virtual Tour he got in touch and subsequently sent us a set of scanned copies of the slides.

Quite a lot of the images we already have on the Tour, or similar ones; however, the quality of these new copies is outstanding, allowing us to pick out details that were not apparent before and gradually replace some of the poorer copies we have. In addition there are several very rare photographs that we have never seen before, so we are particularly grateful to Kevin for his generosity in allowing us to share them with you.

The first twelve images have gone on today as an appetiser and the rest of them will be added to the Tour between now and the Christmas holidays so keep checking back for more.

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Twelve new photographs of Marple Hall have been added to the Tour today, especially for a lady in Canada who intends to make a scale model of the hall. She has been planning and gathering information for this for several years and we have been corresponding for most of this time. We even met at the site of the hall in 2004 and I'm really looking forward to seeing the results!
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Thanks to Ray there are now names for most of the faces in the Willows pictures. If anyone can fill the few gaps that are left it would be great.

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A batch of 15 new photographs featuring the interior of All Saints' Old Church and a number of other local scenes have been added to the Virtual Tour today.

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