Top rated - A Virtual History Tour of Marple and District

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Wedding of J.B. Jinks & Florence PottsJ.B. Jinks and Florence Potts at their wedding at All Saints' Church c1931.

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St. Mary's RC School c1951-2A class photo taken at St. Mary's Roman Catholic School in Marple Bridge around 1951-52 provided by Brendon Fox (first left row 3) who now lives in the USA. See comments for a full list of known names.

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Whitfield, JosephJoseph Whitfield, of Derby St. Marple, is second scout from right. The others are unknown. The picture was provided by son Derek Whitfield, who understood from his father that it was taken in Marple.

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Norman Ridgeway & Phyllis Greenwood 1933Wedding of Norman Ridgeway and Phyllis Greenwood, of Marple Tennis club fame, 29 September 1933. Margaret Cochran (later Lane) is seated far right, and Hugh Lane, is second gent from the right. The others were not known by Beth Bainbridge, daughter of Margaret and Hugh, who provided the photo but full details are now in the comments from a newspaper cutting provided by Linda Breese, daughter of Norman and Phyllis.

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The Gypsy Fair (at Rose Hill House)'The Gypsy Fair' - taken at a 3 day festival run by the Marple Congregational Church in the grounds of Rose Hill House, home of the Johnson family. Margaret Cochran is kneeling far right, and her sister Helen next to her with the tambourine. Margaret's daughter Beth Bainbridge, who provided the photo, believes it to be c1923/4.

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