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The plate girder bridge at the eastern end of Marple Viaduct, c.1908.
The Tears Wept by our Windows : Friday 24 June 2022
Illustrated lecture in St Martins Church at 7.30 pm
Alison Gilchrist, conservation specialist since 2011 at Barley Studio, York (one of Britain’s leaders in ‘design and mastery in stained glass’), describes her work restoring Victorian stained glass.
more details at St. Martins Heritage Trust
Postcards Pt.2 - October 2019
Mrs Edwards of Stonehurst with her daughters and friends
A postcard of the Edwards family from Chorlton–cum Medlock photographed several years before WW1 in the garden of Hollins House, (now the Memorial Park) the home of the Carver family who owned Hollins Mill. The census returns describe Thomas Edwards as a cotton manufacturer and calico printer. Sometime after the 1911 census, Thomas and Mary and their daughters Mary (b1894) and Edith (b1895) moved to Stonehurst on Hibbert Lane.
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Acknowledgement
Marple Local History Society would like to thank Mark Whittaker for his indispensable help and contribution in designing and setting up this website, which he continues to host on behalf of the Society.