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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #554 on: Yesterday at 05:38:18 PM »
The Park & Paterson Foundry album has now been migrated to The Marple Website's 3rd Generation Virtual History Tour.

Park and Paterson (Manchester) Ltd was situated on Cross Lane, Marple. The original foundry premises were built during the latter part of the 19th century and had railway access from the adjoining Rose Hill line. The firm went into receivership in 2004. The photos in this album are from Marple Local History Society Archives and include some of Park and Paterson's Parkhead Glasgow Works for completeness. Unfortunately most of the images are undated.

The images shown here are just a small selection of those in the albums.

Follow the links to visit: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/park-paterson











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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #553 on: February 06, 2025, 07:08:20 AM »
The Dan Bank and Dooley Lane album has now been migrated to The Marple Website's 3rd Generation Virtual History Tour.

This album covers the Dan Bank and Dooley Lane area, including Otterspool, Chadkirk and as far up as Bunker's Hill. You could claim that some of this is not strictly Marple but then you'd be missing out on some great local photographs of the most familiar routes into and out of the town.

The images shown here are just a small selection of those in the albums.

Follow the links to visit: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/dan-bank-dooley-lane















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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #552 on: January 31, 2025, 06:58:10 AM »
The Railways album has now been migrated to The Marple Website's 3rd Generation Virtual History Tour.

This album contains everything we have relating to railways in Marple. There are separate sub-albums for Marple and Rose Hill Stations with everything else, including both Middlewood Stations and Ludworth Moor Tramway, residing in the higher-level Railways album. If you have any Marple Railways related images we don't, please consider sharing them.

The images shown here are just a small selection of those in the albums.

Follow the links to visit: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/railways

Marple Station: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/marple-station

Rose Hill Station: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/rose-hill-station

Marple Station Improvements: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/marple-station-improvements









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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #551 on: January 19, 2025, 11:42:57 AM »
The Station Road and Brabyns Brow album has now been migrated to The Marple Website's 3rd Generation Virtual History Tour.

This album covers Station Road from the junction with Stockport Road up past Memorial Park towards Marple Station, where it turns into Brabyns Brow, and on down the Brow past Brabyns Park and on to Marple Bridge. It also features the frequent crashes on Brabyns Brow before the road and Marple Bridge were widened and straightened in the 1930s.

These are just a small selection of the images in the album.

Follow the link to visit: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/station-road-brabyns-brow







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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #550 on: January 18, 2025, 07:03:53 AM »
The Church Lane album has now been migrated to The Marple Website's 3rd Generation Virtual History Tour.

These are just a small selection of the images in the album.

Follow the link to visit: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/church-lane









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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #549 on: January 07, 2025, 08:06:46 AM »
The Hollins Mill Estate album has now been migrated to The Marple Website's 3rd Generation Virtual History Tour.

These are just a small selection of the images in the album.

Follow the link to visit: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/hollins-mill-and-estate







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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #548 on: January 07, 2025, 08:04:03 AM »
The Market Street and Derby Way album has now been migrated to The Marple Website's 3rd Generation Virtual History Tour.

These are just a small selection of the images in the album.

Follow the link to visit! https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/market-street-and-derby-way







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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #547 on: December 19, 2024, 08:21:41 PM »
The Marple District Centre album, dating back 54 years, is now migrated:

https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/district-centre

Marple District Centre was changed radically in the 1970s when Market Street was paved over and Hibbert Lane was extended between Church Lane and Stockport Road.

The numbered images in this album were taken by Marple UDC during these changes and the location of each shot was marked on a large plan of the area, which is also included as the first image in the album. Additional photos taken by Pete Robinson during the mid-1970s to early 1980s were provided by Eddie Ashworth in 2015. Both Eddie and Pete worked on the District Centre improvements for several years back in the day.







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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #546 on: December 18, 2024, 08:55:33 PM »
The following sub-albums have now been migrated to the 3rd Generation site:

Marple's Changing Face: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/changing-face



Stockport Road West: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/stockport-road-west



Stockport Road East: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/stockport-road-east



These three sub-albums are part of the Marple Album in the Building and Street Scenes Category. 
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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #545 on: December 06, 2024, 05:56:55 PM »
The Virtual History Tour of Marple and District is on the move!

The Marple Website's collection of photos, known as the Virtual History Tour, began 23 years ago, in 2001. In 2006 it was moved to a Gallery platform called Coppermine. With the help of Marple Local History Society and many others the "Virtual Tour" has grown to hold over 15,500 images that have been viewed more then 5.6 Million times.

In December 2024 migration to a newer mobile friendly platform called Piwigo began.



Migrating so many images will be a long process. While ongoing visitors will need to switch between 2nd Generation and 3rd Generation sites to access all the images available.

The new 3rd Generation site is here: https://www.marple.website/photos/

The older 2nd Generation site is here: https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/

There are links in place on both sites so that you can move between them easily.

The following albums have been migrated to the new site at the time of this posting:

Historic Buildings: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/historic-buildings

Marple Hall: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/marple-hall

The Hall and Outbuildings: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/marple-hall-and-outbuildings

Marple Hall Interior: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/marple-hall-interior

Jack Wilkinson Album: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/jack-wilkinson

Marple Hall Relics and Souvenirs: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/marple-hall-relics

Brabyns Hall: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/brabyns-hall

Brabyns Hall and Estate: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/brabyns-hall-and-estate

Iron Bridge: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/iron-bridge

Iron Bridge Restoration: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/iron-bridge-restoration

Scroll Bridge: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/scroll-bridge

Mellor Mill and Estate: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/mellor-mill-estate

Mellor Mill: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/mellor-mill

Other Mellor Mill Buildings: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/other-mellor-mill-buildings

Listed Buildings: https://www.marple.website/photos/index.php?/category/listed-buildings
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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #544 on: October 11, 2024, 07:31:26 AM »
Over the last month 20 images donated to Marple Local History Society by Jennie and Geoff Barton have been uploaded to the Virtual History Tour. They are mostly of Strines Choir on outings in the 1940s and 50s. Strines Historian Rosemary Taylor (who is featured on many of them) put as many names to faces as she could on the backs and these are included in the captions.

https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?search=Geoff+Barton&submit=search&album=search&title=on&newer_than=&caption=on&older_than=&keywords=on&type=AND





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« Reply #543 on: April 28, 2024, 08:37:54 AM »
A batch of images donated to Marple Local History Society by Mary Moore have been added to the Virtual Tour this morning.

They are from her mother's time staying at Brabyns Hall with Miss Hudson in the late 1920s until the early 1940s.

The images are here:

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

And you can read more about Mary's family links to Brabyns here:

https://www.marplelocalhistorysociety.org.uk/stories-from-the-archive/artefacts/a-new-perspective-on-brabyns-park.html







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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #542 on: December 19, 2023, 06:32:16 AM »
Images of artefacts uploaded to the Virtual History Tour

I'm not sure if anyone still follows this topic but as it's been read more than 235,800 times, I though I should perhaps keep it going.

Today and yesterday a number of images of interesting artefacts have been uploaded. These include many that I've acquired over a long period of time and have now donated to Marple Local History Society Archives for safe keeping. These include: a Carriage Lamp from Marple Hall, a silver Rose Bowl from 1910 commemorating the return of a local MP, and a number of commemorative china items item, my favourite of which must be the John Jinks water jug from the Ring o' Bells that can be dated to 1878-1887 when John was Landlord of the pub.

Follow this link to see them all: https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0







There are also some images of other items already in the society's archives. These include a painting of Brabyns Hall that used to hang in the hall, and what was known as the Apprentice Mug from Hollins Mill.



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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #541 on: November 05, 2022, 12:32:21 PM »
A new album featuring Annie Pott's photo album has been added to the Virtual History Tour

I created a video slide-show of Annie's album back in December 2019 but although I prepared all the images for the VT too it looks like I omitted to upload them. This has been corrected now.

https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=211

The slide-show version can be seen here: https://www.marple.website/community-projects/looking-for-stanley-jacks-letters-html.html



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Re: The Virtual Time Tour of Marple
« Reply #540 on: October 23, 2022, 04:54:49 PM »
The Ann Hearle Postcard Collection

Over the coming months I will be working my way through the late Ann Hearle's Postcard Collection from Marple Local History Society Archives and filling in any gaps in the Virtual History Tour.

Today sees almost a dozen new additions to the All Saints' Church Album: https://visitmarple.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-92







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