The Virtual Time Tour of Marple

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I had a map that shows the layout of some of the buildings but I can't seem to lay my hands on it at the moment - a good tidy up is called for! I'll upload it to the Tour when it turns up. In the meantime, here's our Christmas present to all you folks who enjoy the old photos in our Virtual Tour:

A gentleman from South Wales called Kevin Gilbert recently purchased a collection of nearly 70 glass negative slides as a job lot because some of them featured World War I soldiers (at Brabyns Hall Military Hospital). A few of the scenes were identifiable as being of Marple due to the writing on them so Kevin's son did an Internet search and found us. When Kevin saw our Virtual Tour he got in touch and subsequently sent us a set of scanned copies of the slides.

Quite a lot of the images we already have on the Tour, or similar ones; however, the quality of these new copies is outstanding, allowing us to pick out details that were not apparent before and gradually replace some of the poorer copies we have. In addition there are several very rare photographs that we have never seen before, so we are particularly grateful to Kevin for his generosity in allowing us to share them with you.

The first twelve images have gone on today as an appetiser and the rest of them will be added to the Tour between now and the Christmas holidays so keep checking back for more.

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Twelve new photographs of Marple Hall have been added to the Tour today, especially for a lady in Canada who intends to make a scale model of the hall. She has been planning and gathering information for this for several years and we have been corresponding for most of this time. We even met at the site of the hall in 2004 and I'm really looking forward to seeing the results!
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Thanks to Ray there are now names for most of the faces in the Willows pictures. If anyone can fill the few gaps that are left it would be great.

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A batch of 15 new photographs featuring the interior of All Saints' Old Church and a number of other local scenes have been added to the Virtual Tour today.

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[Deniseam]

Lovely photos of the old hall.  Does anyone have a map showing the location of all these buildings and grounds overlaying what exists now?

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18 additional photographs of the Iron Bridge, Iron Bridge Cottage and the Scroll Bridge, mostly taken in the mid 70s to early 80s have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning.

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Six new photographs of the Willows School staff and pupils from 1953/54 have been added to the Tour today. If you can put names to faces then please let us know.

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[admin]

Hi Ray,

No, I've just checked back and found the email with the pictures but there are no names mentioned in it. If you can send them then I'd be delighted to update the captions.

While I'm writing, thanks for the many pictures you've sent us over the last few years Ray, you've provided some great additions to the Tour.  

Cheers,

Mark

[RAY NOBLE]

I thought I sent you the names with the photographs.  Ray.

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A series of twelve photos of Marple Park Tennis Club members taken between 1931 and 1935 have been added to the Tour this evening. If you can put names to any of these faces please do let us know.

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Another four photos sent to us by Ray Noble have been added to the Tour this evening. Thanks again Ray!

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Twelve more images have have been added to the tour today: Five are from the collection of glass slides mentioned in the previous post, a couple of Marple Cricket Club and the rest a variety of mainly people shots from Ray Noble, who is doing a stirling job digging out these old images.

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A complete new album has been added to the Events section of the Virtual Tour featuring some marvellous photographs taken during the Pageant for the Dedication of Marple War Memorial in 1922. Click here to go directly to the new album.

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Six photos of the Scroll Bridge, Iron Bridge and Iron Bridge Cottage taken by Malcolm Melia in the late 1980s have been added to the Tour.

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Five photos sent to us by Ray Noble have been added to the Tour this evening. Thanks Ray!

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