Promoting Marple

[CTCREP]

Marple has just had a Food Fair, and there has been a Family Fun Day in Etherow Country Park, both of which may well have been of interest to visitors using the Middlewood Way. This is typical of the reason that we should be badgering the Council to provide useful signboards in Marple.

[mikeinfrance]

yes, the weekend of the 22nd. hope that your well stocked up on the best!

any how you have to get used to things being loud again i have to get used to the smokeing ban.......... any how iam going of the point. Ive seen beautiful citys the countryside of france, holland, belgium and spain but its as they said in the wizzard of oz 'theres no place like home''

[Peter]

I've already heard that he's back at the weekend!!!! Just when I was beginning to enjoy the quiet life!

[mikeinfrance]

wasent that my point.

that rarther then competeing with anybody people should work together to promote marple.

[its a french keyboard and i cant find the question mark key}

oh well iam of for a swim in the med................ the coustomers have gone home iam working so hard.............. '>

[CTCREP]

MikeinFrance’s reply to my email on promoting Marple may give some people the impression that I am trying to compete with Marple Web Site, which of course I am not. It is an excellent Web Site, but for many, particularly those arriving at Rosehill from along the Middlewood Way they will not have researched the possibilities. Many of those I talk to would rather be riding their bikes than surfing the Web and we should be telling them what delights are in the vicinity.

Away from Britain, or at least away from Stockport, you find villages that have a village plan on the outskirts with details of shops, hotels etc. One little town - smaller than Marple - that we visited about 30 miles from Seattle, had a notice board with a telephone where you could phone the advertised hotels simply by pressing a button. We have a plethora of interesting sites in and around Marple that practically only the residents know about. It is these things we need to get the Council to recognise otherwise we could well end up with more expensive, useless corporate notice boards similar to those that have appeared in all the Parks.

In the Weaver Valley the nearby College has produced a beautiful iron gate, amongst other things. So things like this can be done in Britain. We have a College in Marple, perhaps they should have an input into how Marple should be portrayed. Unfortunately one voice is insufficient; hence the plea for local residents to get involved.

[heather]

marple is one of the most beautiful places on this planet i dont think i could live anywhere else   '>

[heather]

we know you are home in 2 weeks   and cant wait to see you but have you warned pete that you have arranged to meet all your mates in the ringers on the sat night '>  '>  '>

[mikeinfrance]

I think that any promotion of our home town has got to start with THIS WEBSITE. Iam sat hear and now in the south of france and the weather is fantastic the people are nice the beer is cheep, if not as nice as a pont of best from the ringers, But the only thing that iam thinking of is home, for me that is Marple. I think that we should all do the most that we can to get more people to visit to find out for them selvs just what a special place Marple is. '>

On the same note personaly think that this web site could do with some more up to date pictures of Marple on hear Or a web cam!!!!!!!!!!!!! so that people from all over the wourld can see for them selves just how lucky we all are to live in such a beautiful place. saying that just 2 weeks and Iam HOME. But now its 32degrees iam going to swim in the med.

[CTCREP]

For several years I have been trying to persuade Stockport MBC to promote Marple and the surrounding area by means of a notice board at the Rosehill end of the Middlewood Way. There is a possibility that this may now come about and I have asked that local residents etc should have a say in how and what they would like to see advertised. It is not uncommon for visitors to the Middlewood Way to arrive at Rosehill and have no idea that Marple, with its shops, cafes and pubs, is just up the road, that the canal system etc is all nearby.

I do not think Web Sites should publish names etc, so may I suggest that if you have an interest in this then you contact your local Councillor.