The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

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A batch of 18 more Civic Society Archive photos have been uploaded to the Tour today. We're now getting towards the end of the B&W album and I will soon be starting to scan the colour ones. No idea yet what is in them and looking forward to finding out.

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

[badger]

I would just like to say that the photo's bring back some memories of my time as a Plumber & Electrician
in and around Marple. Notably file 5/2676 Stephouses as my father and I put in some water purifiers (basically porcelain candles to which the water passed through before reaching the tap) in the 70's because hen muck and diesel was getting into the water course from the chicken farm at the top of the road.Then several years later we blocked up the well and put in a water main, digging a trench down the lane from Horsepool.
Also file 30/2676 Manor Farm, the white extention (centre) without the Georgian windows. I worked on that which was very interesting as its a listed building things had to be in keeping with the original even the large sandstone roof slabs. Why aren't the windows Georgian now?
                                                                                                       
                                                                                          Thanks for the memories.
 

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Thirty photos from Marple Civic Society's Archives were uploaded to the Virtual Tour during yesterday but I've only just finished the captions. As usual your comments or suggestions to improve these are most welcome.

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

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Some great photos of Ludworth School, both the buildings and pupils and teachers, have been added to the Tour this morning. A couple of the photos we already had, so these have been used to replace the old versions rather than uploaded freshly. They will not be visible in the most recent additions, so I've included separate links below:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-604

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-950

Also added are a couple of photos from Ray Noble of the Goyt Mill chimney taken in 1980.

Use this link for the new additions: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

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The first upload of 2009 from the Marple Civic Society Archives has a distinctly Mellor flavour. All 26 photos are from 1980.

Your comments or suggestions to improve the captions are welcome.

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

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More pictures from the Marple Civic Society archives taken in 1980 have been added this morning. It's interesting to see some of the stories developing as these photos are progressively added. For example the reconstruction of Brick Bridge and the restoration of the Strawberry Hill Farm Buildings from their derelict state in 1978 to the restored versions in 1980 that we would recognise today.

As usual, if you have comments or can improve the captions, just let me know.

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

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A few more miscellaneous pictures added to the Tour this morning, including one that needs some detective work to identify the location. Could the wall the fancy dress kids are standing in front of be in Brabyns?

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

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Another 20 odd photos from the Civic Society Archives have been added to the Tour this morning while I wait for everyone else to get up! Most of these are of the Chadwick Street Car Park area, which was obviously a very popular subject for the archive photographer.

If you have comments or can improve the captions, just let me know.

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

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Photos from the Marple Christmas Cracker Event last weekend and also a few from the Winter Wonderland have been added to the Tour this morning. Thanks to Arthur Procter and Ruth Hargreaves for these.

If you have any good photos from either of these events that you'd like to add, then get in touch.

This link will take you straight to the Events Albums http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/index.php?cat=25&page=2

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Twelve scans from glass slides provided by Marple Local History Society have been added to the Tour this afternoon. Some of them we need some help identifying where they are.

There is also another new image added a little earlier of John Thompson Harris, mill manager at Hollins Mill for a period.

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

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Back-tracking to 1978, we have another dozen photos of Marple from the Civic Society Archives. These are in a different format, approx 2" square negatives, but probably the same photographer. I've cropped off some big skies on one or two of them.

If you have comments or can improve the captions, just let me know.

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

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Just over two dozen photos from the Civic Society Archives have been added to the Tour this morning. They comprise more photographs of the area from 1979-80, including quite a bit of reconstruction going on, plus a series of photos of postcards that have come out quite well. A few we had already have been replaced because these copies are better and one or two I could have sworn we had already but I could find them with a search! If you spot any duplicates please let me know.

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

A few people have advised that Simmondley is over towards Glossop / Charlesworth, so I'm not sure why it's found its way into the Society's archive but it is, so it might as well stay on the tour.

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Two photos of pupils at St. Martin's School c1929, provided by Susan Slingsby, have just been added to the Tour, see http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

Thanks for your response on the Simmondsley photo Duk! Seems a long way out for Marple Civic Society but you could well be right, the name certainly seems to fit.

Mark

[Cycling Duk]

Peter,  I am pretty certain that the photograph of Simmondley No 14/2449 is the cottage on the bad bend at the bottom of the dip in the road on High Lane travelling to-wards Glossop on the continuation of Town Lane Charlesworth (Right at the Grey Mare) before the road becomes Simmondley Lane.  ( 53º.434154 North and -1º.974835 West ) you can search this in Google Earth!

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Two films from Marple Civic Society's Archives have been uploaded to the Tour this morning, one from 1978 (the last of that year) and another from 1979.

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

The latter includes a couple of great shots of the Iron Bridge during the gas main installation in 1979! This throws into doubt the picture we already had, taken by Ron Booth in the late eighties, of what we assumed was the gas main installation. Closer examination (and hindsight) now suggests that Ron's photo was of the wooden decking being renewed and the gas main must have already been in place.

If you search the Tour for "gas main 1979" you will see all 3 photos together.

There is one photo, of a house called "Simmondley" that I don't recognise. Does anyone know where this is (or was) please?

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pos=-2546

Also, if you can put names to the faces planting trees near Possett Bridge in 1979 that would be interesting.