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Crafts1067 viewsSalmon a leaping.
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Marple Carnival 19061066 viewsCrowds gather at the corner of Market Street and Stockport Road during Marple Carnival in 1906.
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Inside 'Treetops' Hospital1066 viewsA patient in the girls ward of Marple Children's Orthopaedic Hospital during a 1930's Christmas.
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Inside 'Treetops' Hospital1065 viewsPatients in the girls ward of Marple Dale Children's Orthopaedic Hospital during a 1930's Christmas.
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Exterior of 'Treetops' Hospital1064 viewsA vistor to Marple Children's Orthopaedic Hospital, during 1930s.
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Crowd at the Crown1063 viewsThe Crown at Hawk Green around WW1. Note the mesh over the windows to protect them from the cricket played at that time on the Green. The giant of a man sat in the middle is probably Jabez Shaw the landlord.
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Bonfire on the Ridge1062 viewsTwo images of the same bonfire tell different stories. This one says it was to celebrate the end of WW1 (1918-19) the other says the coronation of Edward VII (1902) but which is right? From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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Explosion on Church Street1061 viewsNow La Dolce Vita restaurant, the shop is here being re-built after a fatal gunpowder explosion in 1902.
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Marple Urban District Council1060 viewsDignitaries from Marple Urban District Council pose outside the council offices on Market Street (NatWest Bank) with a local soldier, Christmas 1914.
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Children's Orthopaedic Hospital 1949-511060 viewsThis is Ken Chaisty, who stayed at Treetops between 1949 and 1951. He would love to hear from anyone who was there at the same time.
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Albert Schools1059 viewsStaff or governors at Albert Schools: the gentleman on the front row far left is teacher Frederick Pennington (identified by his 3x great-nephew Richard Ebdon). From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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All Saints' School 1946-471058 viewsPupils at All Saints' School during 1946-47. Names are included on the image.
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