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Fluorescent tubes at Chadkirk819 views1000 fluorescent tubes placed by Richard Box flickered into life along the River Goyt to celebrate Connect2 on Thursday 27th September. Photo by Arthur Procter.
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Marple Band817 viewsWhat category to put this in! Marple Band playing outside the Pineapple Inn on Market Street around 1900.
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BMSS Football Team 1918-19816 viewsBMSS Football Team 1918-19, from Marple Local History Society Archives. Anyone know what BMSS was?
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Opening of Marple Co-Op 1913816 viewsThe inscription on this key reads: "Presented to Geo.J.Wilkinson President on the occasion of opening New Shop Marple on March 29 1913. Compstall Co-operative Society." Provided by Grandson Edmund Wilkinson.
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Hyde Bank Tunnel Collapse814 viewsWorkmen are brought in to repair the breech in Hyde Bank Tunnel.
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Ludworth School 1947814 views"Standard IV" pupils with their teacher at Ludworth School in 1947.
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Territorials813 viewsTerritorials on a steam powered lorry owned by George Andrew of Compstall, probably early 20th C.
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Group 01 - 1220813 viewsRobert De Stockport and his Foresters, we think on the Church Lane section of the route, which also included Market Street, Hawk Green, Hibbert Lane and Stockport Road.
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Mary Elizabeth Green-Coverley812 viewsMary Elizabeth Green-Coverley stands outside Peeres Cottage, Strines, c. 1920.
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Snow in the 1940s812 viewsSnow in Marple - January / February 1940. From Marple Local History Society Archives.
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Marple Cricket Club member J. T. Turner811 viewsWritten on the bottom: Faithfully yours, J. T. Turner Marple C. C. Season 1906.
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Threshing at Windlehurst809 viewsThreshing at Windlehurst around the turn of the 1800/1900s.
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