The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

[admin]

A Baker's Dozen of new local images from Marple Local History Society have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning:

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

[admin]

27 new images from a new Marple Local History Society folder have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning. There are a few mystery photos included, so if you can help with more details please post here or get in touch by email.

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

[admin]

The chap on the far left of the picture is definitely my grandad, George Williamson, and year is 1923.

Thanks for the info SGK, I've added it as a comment to the image - but as a registered user of the Tour you should be able to do it yourself if you wanted.

More details in this thread http://www.marple-uk.com/smf/index.php?topic=3381.0

[sgk]

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 photograph http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?album=113&pid=6043 has caption "Pupils at Ludworth School with headmaster Mr. Harold Butterworth. Undated but probably in the late 1920s or early 1930s. From Marple Local History Society Archives.".

The chap on the far left of the picture is definitely my grandad, George Williamson, and year is 1923.

[admin]

Several new images of people from Marple and Mellor's past (and present) have been added to the Virtual History Tour this morning:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=26

[admin]

Just browsed through another folder and discovered the names of the young girls in the Hawk Green Milkmaid photo!

Hawk Green Milkmaids: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=589

[admin]

Two dozen mixed images from Marple Local History Society Archives have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning:

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

In addition, better copies of the following images have been added:

Hawk Green Milkmaids: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=589

Flooding at Chadkirk: http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=362 and one of the chaps in the photo identified.

And the dignitaries at the Dedication of Marple War Memorial in 1992 have been identified:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=1196

And one of our WWI unknown soldiers has been also identified as Percy Marsland of Mellor:

http://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=5344

[amazon]

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.

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Great photo marple coop .they were busy days .

[admin]

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.

[ludworth]

Ludworth Primary School's website have a set of old school photos. Go to "www.ludworth.org.uk" - then "About us/Ludworth's history"

[admin]

A dozen new photos from Marple Local History Society's Archives have been added to the Tour this afternoon.

These are new additions since the scanning of earlier folders so they cover all kinds of subjects.

Got quite a few to add like this and they really are fascinating stuff!

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

You can read more about the Warship Week fund-raiser on the main site in the History and Heritage articles under "A Community to be Relied Upon".

http://www.marple-uk.com/heritage/

[RAY NOBLE]

Those see-saw's, roundabout. and swings were were erected after the war and there were queues when school came out.

[RAY NOBLE]

The housing estate is Mount Drive looking towards Church Lane, and the welfare is the Girls Institute on Chadwick Street it had just left the Trinity Methodist Chapel  then in the fifties went to the memorial park.

[admin]

Three photos of Marple Station in 1980 provided by a gentleman called Paul Mallett who used to live on Station Road have been added to the Tour this morning.

Also several images from a school project on Child Welfare and Youth Work, written by K. Taylor in 1949 that has recently come into Marple Local History Society's hands.

I could do with some help on these:

Where is the new Housing Estate? And where was the Welfare Centre?

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

[admin]

Some photos of Middlewood Higher Station during demolition of the south bound platform and chopping off of the edge of the northbound platform in 1966 have been added to the Virtual Tour this evening. The photos have been provided by Martin Stafford, who as a young man of 17 ran a huge, but ultimately unsuccessful, campaign to keep the line between Rose Hill and Macclesfield open.

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

Martin really did make a huge effort and he has given me all his letters and campaign material from the mid 1960s including numerous newspaper cuttings. I plan to pass the package on to Friends of Rose Hill Station if they are interested and then to Marple Local History Society for their archives.