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| Local History & Heritage in the Community News |
In September 2000 friend and fellow enthusiast Peter Clarke and I began contributing articles for a regular feature in the Community News (formerly the Romiley and Marple Mail), under the banner "Local History and Heritage with the Marple Website". Neither Peter or I were paid for this, it was just a hobby that kept us out of mischief. In an attempt to preserve our efforts beyond tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers, we also reproduced the articles here on the site.
Sadly, in November 2002, the paper chose not to acknowledge the web site name or address above our article, something we had complained about before and made clear was most important to us. After a very strong protest from us this time, and despite assurances received in writing from the paper, this was repeated again for the December 2002 article, leaving us no option but to end our contributions with this issue.
We've had some great feedback from Community News readers during these two years and a common theme you will find repeated in our articles is the request that if you know the whereabouts of anything interesting relating to Marple's History and Heritage, to get in touch. This still applies and we will continue to look for new ways to bring these kinds of stories to our visitors. We would therefore be delighted to hear from anyone with interesting items, stories or recollections to share.
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