The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

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Updates on Marple Station Improvements, Otterspool Bridge Hydro and Chadkirk Bridge Construction from Arthur Procter and Bill Beard have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning:

Chadkirk Bridge:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-21

Otterspool Bridge Hydro:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-40

Marple Station:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-23

We also have some Marple Methodist Church photos from the 1950s from Ray Noble:

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

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With thanks to Ray Noble, David Burridge and Rick Wood, the first Marple Carnival Photos are now on-line:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=125

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We now have Carnival Photos from Arthur Procter too:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-125

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Photos of Chadkirk Bridge being lifted into place on Wednesday by Arthur Procter and David Burridge have been uploaded to the Virtual Tour this morning:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-21

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And now we have some photos from Arthur at Otterspool and Chadkirk showing the river in spate. Some of the bank has been washed away at Otterspool and the temporary causeway at Chadkirk has gone completely:

Chadkirk Bridge:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-21

Otterspool Bridge Hydro:
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-40

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Photographs by Arthur Procter of the 2012 Chadkirk Festival have been added to the album created for the Chadkirk Bridge Opening last weekend:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=128

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The Virtual Tour has been updated with some 1980 carnival photos from ray Noble plus a couple of his grandson Ryan, who is now a member of the Life Guards band.

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

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The Virtual Tour has been updated this morning with photos from Marple Local History Society's Archive folder for Hawk Green and also some 1979 Carnival photos from Ray Noble.

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

The images on the Virtual Tour have now been viewed more than 1,500,000 times - if only I had a penny!

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The Virtual Tour has been updated this evening with a selection of photos taken by the late Gordon Mills between 1957 and the early 1960s. These have been passed to Marple Local History Society by Gordon's widow, Barbara. There is also one from Ray Noble of Captain Marvel!

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

[RAY NOBLE]

When Marple council decided that Captain was not needed any more they sold him to Oldfield & Braddock's at Chapel House Farm c1952 I walked with him and Len Oldfield from Rose Hill Council yard to Chapel house Farm.

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Thanks for that interesting snippet Ray!

A new album has been added to the Tour this evening showing the handover of the section of Iron-Age Ditch at Mellor Old Vicarage at the end of September, taken by Arthur Procter:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=131

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A selection of photos from Marple Local History Society Archives have been added to the Tour this evening featuring Hawk Green and Chadkirk Chapel:

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

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A photo of Marple British Legion c 1948 from Ray Noble has been added to the Tour this morning:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=7667

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Photographs from a Marple Local History Society folder for Compstall have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning.

Amazon will be interested to see a couple of Compstall Cricket Club players but dates and names are not recorded:

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

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A variety of photos from MLHS folders on Compstall, High Lane and Ludworth/Lower Fold have been added to the Tour this morning, including a couple of interesting shots of the Gasometer at Ludworth prior to and during demolition in 1976.

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