The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

[Lily]

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

[Lily]

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?

[admin]

Another 24 images from the Janet Holmes collection have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning.
https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0

These include an amazing pre-WWII postcard of Marple Memorial Park:



A mystery family outing to Marple:



Ladies marching past the Bull's Head on Market Street:

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This morning 25 new images have been uploaded to the Marple Website Virtual History Tour.

Mostly from the Janet Holmes collection but there are also a couple of mystery items from Marple Local History Society.

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

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During the summer historian Ann Hearle and I met with members of the Bagshawe family, descendants of Ernest and Alice Carver, who changed their family name to Bagshawe after Alice's father died in 1914. Ernest and Alice were the parents of Geoffrey Hamilton Bagshawe, who was killed in May 1915 and is featured on the Time-line in the park.

The family has recently passed on a couple of images of Ernest and Alice to Marple Local History Society and these have been uploaded to the Virtual History Tour this morning:



In this photo of the Carver family on the steps of Hollins House in 1914 Ernest is 2nd from the right in the back row:

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The Virtual Tour has recently passed 4 Million Image Views - Amazing!

A complete album from Marple Local History Society archives featuring pictures of the Parish of Mellor taken during the celebrations for the Coronation of HM King George V on 22 June 1911 has been uploaded to the Virtual History Tour this morning:

https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=189

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The last photos from the Mellor collection provided to Marple Local History Society by Hilary Ellam have been uploaded this morning:

https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-180

These are all of wedding in Mellor or people from Mellor during the 1930s.

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More photos from the Mellor collection provided to Marple Local History Society by Hilary Ellam have been uploaded this morning:

https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-180

These are all from a Mellor Scout's Camping trip during the 1930s.

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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?

After investigations by MLHS's Bill Beard the following comment has been added for this image: https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=9057

The map link below gives the location of the Jordan Arms at Jordanwall Nook. In Jack Turnbull's book "Last Orders Please" he suggests that one of the pubs in the area was known as the Miners but was not the official name. A bit like the Foresters in Romiley that is known as the 'Piggy'. There is more info in the MLHS book by Derek Brumhead about mining in the area. https://maps.nls.uk/view/114586112

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Some one has spotted that it's the 50th anniversary of the Queen's visit to Marple today!

https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=69

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Some more photos from the collection provided to Marple Local History Society by Hilary Ellam have been uploaded this evening:

https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-180

These additions include a Scout and Guides Panto, Guides camping and Mellor AFC teams from the 1930s.

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Further to the Braddock's Garage photos from Graham Meakin yesterday two more photos have been added today.

These show his grandfather's family picnicking at Greenclough Farm in Strines in the early 1900s plus a photo of the same location in 2014:

https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/displayimage.php?pid=12434

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This evening 40 photos of Braddock's Garage on Oldknow Road shortly before it closed and during demolition have been added to the Virtual Tour.

The photos are kindly provided by Graham Meakin:

https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-21

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This morning a new album has been started featuring a series of photos provided to Marple Local History Society by Hilary Ellam:

The photos in this album were given to MLHS by Hilary Ellam whose parents and grandparents were from Mellor. Hilary's parents were Peter Davis and (Winifred) Shirley Davis (nee Hall).  Hilary’s grandparents were Annie Mary Hall (nee Daniels) and Bernard Hall.  Bernard Hall ran a butcher’s shop in Mellor with his brother,  as well as being a part time postman.  The Davis family were tailors from Marple Bridge. Barbara Hall and Shirley were sisters. Hilary reckons that the majority of the photographs were taken in the 1930s when her Aunt Barbara, born in 1925, would have been in the guides.

The first photos added are from a Mellor Carnival / Rose Queen event in the 1930s. There will be quite a few other Mellor related images added soon.

https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=180

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Thanks to Bill Beard at Marple Local History Society we now know that this location is The Bongs on Cobden Edge.



So it's now been moved to the Mystery People Gallery, as we still have no idea who this group of ladies are.