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Marple Bridge MultiviewA multiview card of Marple Bridge featuring Town Street. Provided by Janet Holmes. May 22, 2020

Marple Bridge MultiviewA multiview postcard of Marple Bridge provided by Janet Holmes.May 22, 2020

Weir and Corn MillYou can't see the Corn Mill in this shot looking across to Town Street, only the weir. Provided by Janet Holmes.May 22, 2020

Town Street Buildings Buildings on Town Street, Marple Bridge. Note the plaque saying "Victoria Place 1842". From Marple Local History Society Archives.May 01, 2020

Town StreetTown Street, Marple Bridge, with horse and carriage outside what is now the post office. From Marple Local History Society Archives.May 01, 2020

Town Street 1976Town Street, Marple Bridge, in 1976. From Marple Local History Society Archives.May 01, 2020

Town Street Building Work 1993Building on Town Street - construction underway. From Marple Local History Society Archives.May 01, 2020

Marple Bridge

This album features Marple Bridge and the Weir and Corn Mill once known as Flowerdew Mill, as well as many other photographs of the general Marple Bridge area, including Lower Fold, Low Lea Road and Glossop Road.

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Town Street

This album focuses on Town Street, the main shopping area of Marple Bridge and now central to the Marple Bridge Conservation Area. It includes a series of pictures that chart the dramatic collapse and eventual repair of Town Street after it fell into the river in 1991.

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Mill Brow

This album features the tiny hamlet of Mill Brow, Marple Bridge, which now centres around the local pub the Hare and Hounds.

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Horseshoe Inn2918 viewsThe Horseshoe Inn and Lower Fold, Marple Bridge.

Lower Fold2748 viewsLower Fold, Marple Bridge, from a 1960s postcard.

Cruck Barn2448 viewsThe old Cruck Barn at Mill Brow, Marple Bridge.

Lower Fold2310 viewsLower Fold, Marple Bridge, in quieter times. From Marple Local History Society Archives.

Low Lea Road2205 viewsA view looking down Low Lea Road, Marple Bridge, taken in 1959.

Marple Bridge2074 viewsA handcoloured shot of Marple Bridge from a Souvenir of Marple Booklet.

Heys Farm1809 viewsHeys Farm, Marple Bridge, in the area between Glossop Road, Ley Lane and Constable Drive.

Hollins Lane1717 viewsHollins Lane, Marple Bridge.

Random files - Marple Bridge

Town Street 1997Shops on Town Street, Marple Bridge in 1997. From Marple Local History Society Archives.

Pear Tree FarmPear Tree Farm, Lower Fold, Marple Bridge. The field of cows is now Pear Tree Close and Ludworth Primary School.

Town Street CollapseTown Street repairs in progress during 1992. From Marple Local History Society Archives.

Hare and HoundsThe Hare and Hounds at Mill Brow.

Town StreetA busy view of Town Street, Marple Bridge. All those people will be heading for Roman Lakes.

Town StreetA familiar scene but the Royal Scot looks very different to today and was called "The Railway" then. It was called that in 1830, 35 years before the railways came to Marple!

Town Street CollapseCasualties among the Marple Bridge shop keepers on Town Street begin to mount and bitterness ensues.

Town Street CollapseTown Street repairs in progress during 1992. From Marple Local History Society Archives.

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A Virtual History Tour of Marple and District

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