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A handful of older images have been squeezed in between the Carnival uploads to the Virtual Tour this morning.These include some shots of Harold E Shaw Butcher of Marple Bridge, an old but undated aerial view of Marple and some photos of a commemorative key from the 1893 opening of Marple Bridge Co-Op.http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0
The chap on the far left of the picture is definitely my grandad, George Williamson, and year is 1923.
A new album has been created on the Virtual Tour this morning to hold photos of Ludworth School. This is due to the addition of a large number of new images from Marple Local History Society's Archives mainly relating to headmaster Mr Harold Butterworth's reign between 1912 and (based on the pictures) the early 1930s. All images relating to Ludworth School in a variety of other albums have hopefully been tracked down and moved to this album too.If anyone can add names to faces or firm up dates, most of which I've judged based on the extent of Mr Butterworth's hair loss, then please get in touch.The complete Ludworth album can be viewed using this link: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=113
It is exactly 100 years today that George J Wilkinson, President of Compstall Co-Op Society for 30 years until his death in 1941 aged 68, opened the new Co-Op on Market Street. This image of the opening ceremony has been on the Virtual Tour for some time:http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=2941Today, three images of the key presented to George at the time have also been added to the Tour here:http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-36All these images have kindly been provided by Edmund Wilkinson, George's grandson.