Town Street, Marple Bridge

Snow clearance Dale School, late 1960s

The joy of sledging

Early 1900s: Ridge Road, Marple.

On a snowy day in January 2010

Duice Street, a Christmas during the First World War

The house is on Vale Road, beyond Chadkirk Chapel and Chadkirk farm. The road, no longer open to vehicles, climbs steeply up to Burymewick and the house is located just before the road passes under the small canal aqueduct. This was the old road from Otterspool Bridge to the centre of Romiley.

The house looks as though it could have been a tollhouse but there is no evidence to prove this. Because of its peculiar shape, it has had some creative nicknames over the years, including the Mouse Trap, the Pepperpot and the Concertina House. Its name is Kirkwood Cottage.

Winter Wonderland, Marple Bridge

Thames Frost Fair, 1683–84, by Thomas Wyke

Alexandra Road, Manchester - 1897

1947 skaters

On a snowy day, a flash of red

Christmas Tree Festival, St. Martins Church

A view of the houses at the top of Church Street, near the canal.

On the canal near Goyt Mill

Dooley Lane, in earlier snowy days

Spade Forge, Marple Bridge

Somerset - 1963

A tricky day on Brabyns Brow

Delivery of coal, to the Manchester Poor, Christmas 1930

The milk will get through!

Manchester - Sheffield Train, 1940

Santa arrives by the New Horizon Boat at the Forces Club

Derbyshire 1947 - climbing the north face of the Devonshire Arms, believed to be the Sparrowpit hostelry since re-named the Wanted Inn

This part of Hibbert Lane may have been classed as Hawk Green when the postcard was published but it is now definitely in Marple. The wall and gateposts in the foreground belong to a substantial house, Stoke Lacy, which was built after the 1891 census was completed and before the1901 census was taken. William Chapman (Superintendent Railway Goods Depot) and his wife Adelaide lived there in 1901 together with 3 servants. In 1911, Henry Forth (agent and employer - aniline dyes & chemicals) and his wife Annabella were there with daughter Irene and 2 servants. We also know that there were 12 rooms, which included the kitchen but excluded the scullery, bathroom and water closet. The gates in the distance belong to Cotefield or Yately.