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Lock Cleaning 1999Cleaning out of Marple Locks in 1999.
From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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Lock Escape LaddersStone cutting for escape ladders in Marple Locks.
From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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Lock Escape LaddersNew escape ladder in one of Marple's Locks.
From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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Lock KeeperThis gent, show here at Lock 9, was a Lock Keeper who passed away in 1978.
Updated from Marple Local History Society Archives 18 April 2010.
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Lock Keeper's CottageThe Lock Keeper's Cottage by lock 9 on the Peak Forect Canal.
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Lock Keeper's CottageThe Lock Keeper's Cottage at Lock 9 in 1992.
From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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Lock Keeper's CottageThe Lock Keeper's Cottage at Lock 9, date unknown.
From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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Lock Keeper's CottageThe Lock Keeper's Cottage at Lock 9 on the Peak Forest Canal.
From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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Lock Keeper's CottageThe Lock Keeper's Cottage at Lock 9 on the Peak Forest Canal.
From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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Lock Keeper's Cottage 1978The Lock Keeper's Cottage near Lock 9. From the Marple Civic Society Archives, dated 1978.
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Lock MechanismOne of the old lock mechanisms on a Marple Lock.
From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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Lock No. 03This scene puzzled us for a while but we now know that it was a small warehouse or similar building at Lock 3. The outline of the foundations can still be seen on the tow path.
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