plus a series of shots of Marple from the air. The latter can each be clicked on to reveal a larger than normal image but if only we had even higher resolution versions of these!
If only we could afford to buy back the ancestral home - another use for the Euromillions I think!If I can't win it I hope you do Denise!
I think the unknown workshop could be the old Grandalek t.v company, it was behind the shops on stockport Rd behind what was the Mysore Indian restaurant.
Some vintage carnival photos from Axel Thomas have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning. Have you got any like these tucked away in a drawer? Wouldn't it be fun to share them?
Thanks for posting these.
oops - "Dank Bank"!
Thanks for posting these.
oops - "Dank Bank"!
A mixed bag of photos from a Marple Local History Society Archives folder entitled "Sport and Recreation" have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning. Mostly sports teams but a couple of carnival / parade ones too.
See : http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0
Is Amazon there as a lad playing cricket for Compstall I wonder?
Thanks mark. does anybody have any more photos comp cc. will put this up in club house [ nor quite that old ]
More of the glass slides provided by Alan McDowell have gone on-line this morning:Photo 7 of three women, possibly Hollins Terrace off Hollins Lane.
http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0
Quite a few mystery people unfortunately, but interesting all the same.
Just one box of slides to go now.
The balance of the glass slides from Alan McDowell are now uploaded to the Virtual Tour:
http://.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0
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=2941
Today, 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=-36
All these images have kindly been provided by Edmund Wilkinson, George's grandson.
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
The chap on the far left of the picture is definitely my grandad, George Williamson, and year is 1923.
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
No 1 is Red Row, Parkside Lane, Mellor, and no 2 may possibly be the same.
Also there is a postcard labelled on the card itself as Marple Bridge Recreation Ground. It looks like the one in Mellor to me. Was / is there a Marple Bridge Rec?
(http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/albums/uploads/new/mlhs18/rec-marple-bridge.jpg)
No that's not Marple Bridge. Used to be one back of Lower Fold Windsor Castle but it's not this one.
It's definitely Mellor rec - you can tell from the houses in Gibb Lane, on the far right of the picture.
What a truly wonderful set of photo's. Any idea who those "visitors" to the bridge were? Any idea when it was taken.... Not sure a picture taken today would have the same impact in 100 years time (but I could be wrong).
RH
Where was Nab Wood?
Thanks for posting more pictures. I believe Nab Wood is over towards the Hare+Hounds pub on Dooley Lane.
Where was Jessie Field?
If the mill was demolished in 1957 and Marple hall demolished in 1959, how come the sun dial is in memorial park? That doesn't add up unless things were stripped from Marple hall prior to it being demolished!
Lead looters have stripped the roof, and a magnificent sundial which stood outside the main entrance on a tier of steps was recently pushed over for no other reason than as a trial of somebody's strength. It was rescued before it could be hammered into pieces, and now stands in Marple Park as a gift to the village.
There's one annotated on the back as the "Miners Arms", which, according to Jack Turnbull's "Last Orders Please" was once at Moor End in Mellor. However, the sign over the door says the "Jordan Arms" and the landlord was William Butler. A bit of surfing suggests that this was in New Mills - can anyone confirm?
(http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/albums/uploads/new/mlhs18/jordan-arms-miners-arms.jpg)
Mark,
Looking at the Strines Road Canal Arm photo (also posted today), I’d say the house on the right of both pictures is the same one
Hi Mark,
I don’t know how to comment on the individual photo’s that have been posted (today) but is the 5th one, view from Elm Grove, looking across from Oldknow Road towards Strines Road with Arkwright Road on the left and the playing/football field in the centre?
Couple of fabulously colourful 1960s photos of Derby Way added to the Market Street and Derby Way album on the Marple Website Virtual History Tour this morning.
Check out the full album for more than 80 others: https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-19
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESVazQiWsAEs5bD?format=jpg&name=large)
The 375's being run by double deckers at the minute, and I keep thinking how incongruous they must look parked up at the end of a farm track in the middle of Shiloh Road, surrounded by fields and a view towards Kinder Scout.
So I was quite interested to see that picture of a double decker bus coming off Shiloh Road in the 1980s!
https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=14613
Yes, interesting picture. They certainly do look out of place up there - and of course there are no passengers! :(Do you remember the (I think) SHMD buses that had the long seats upstairs?
As far as I can recall, back in the 1980s, most 363 buses would turn round at Mellor rec (just as some 375s do now), but a few would continue to New MIlls, and a few others would continue up through Moor End and turn round at Five Lane Ends - in those days they didn't drive along Shiloh Road to turn round. It looks as though that's what the bus in the picture is doing. If you look very closely you can see the angle of the front wheels, and that the doors are open, and I think the driver is in the process of turning round.
A selection of 59 images from Marple Local History Society Archives have been uploaded to the Virtual History Tour this afternoon. Many of them are of Town Street, Marple Bridge, in the 1990s but there are some older ones and a few around Marple too:exelent thank you admin
https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0 (https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0)
30 new images provided by Dr Ken Lodge were uploaded to the Virtual History Tour yesterday.
They are mostly taken on the Marple Hall Estate when it was fields, some 1950s festivals and Marple Swimming Pool with the dance floor down.
https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0 (https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep-xGylXUAYUF8O?format=jpg&name=large)
I think it's a shame the glitterball didn't survive at the baths.
I think it's a shame the wooden flooring didn't survive!
I asked about it recently and was told it was used somehow at the community building in Brabyns Park. I'm not sure how as I've never been in that building.
30 new images provided by Dr Ken Lodge were uploaded to the Virtual History Tour yesterday.
They are mostly taken on the Marple Hall Estate when it was fields, some 1950s festivals and Marple Swimming Pool with the dance floor down.
https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0 (https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep-xGylXUAYUF8O?format=jpg&name=large)
I am a bit confused with that photograph of the baths. I am old enough to remember dances there, and if that is the old 'stage' then where are the changing cubicles to the right of the swimming pool which you used to get changed in?I can't answer your question except to say that is the old stage. Here's a larger crop for clarity but I can't see any changing cubicles.
Were they removable? Way before my time alive, but I can imagine that if you had designed the place to have a temporary dance floor, you might have also designed it so that you could easily remove the cubicles as well to create space.
I assume the cubicles were on both sides?
There is an older photo with the cubicles but you can only see the other side
https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=10114
I remember the cubicles from visits in the early 1970s, but they were on the left hand side of the room when looking at the stage, not the right hand side.
That's as shown in the photo suggested by @andrewbowden
(https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/albums/uploads/new/mlhs-a/swimming-pool2.jpg)
That looks right to me, although I was only 4 or 5 years old at the time. I certainly don't remember the diving board. I wouldn't want to be diving into 6 feet of water from that!These photos are bringing back memories. There were changing cubicles on both sides of the pool, male and female. Spent many times trying to jump off the board without somebody telling you off. Learnt to dive in doing a back flip from that board. I think, could be wrong that some child was killed using the diving board and that is why it was removed.