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Collection(March 2017) of an assortment of promotional flyers & business cards from local businesses in the Marple (M)/Marple Bridge (MB)/Mellor area. Names and dates given here known.Cards:Hilton Mercantile Group, I Nesbit, CompstallHouse on the…

Numerous original receipts/quotes from local businesses with typed list giving details of business and dates of receipts/quotations. Dating from 1794 two payment slips from Samuel Oldknow's Counting House.
Also handwritten receipts from Rosemary…

Miscellaneous information and memories of local businesses
1. Email communication of the Wigley family boot and shoe business : Photocopy of Flyer 1882.
2. Seven Black & White Photographs of Sid Proctor showing inside of his shop in Market Street.…

Two Leaflets promoting Local Businesses:
1. The Third Mellor Festival : 1981 listing local businesses.
2. Marple's Seasonal Special Offers : 2013 giving money savings vouchers from local businesses.

Photocopy of newspaper article from The Advertiser 1958 with brief history of shops in Marple plus full page advertisement of local businesses.
Newspaper cuttings from 1987 on new shopping Mall to be built by Co-op.

A4 pink blotting paper advertising local businesses circa 1940/50's

Original and photocopy of two page document advertisement for businesses in Stockport and Marple area. Date unknown.

Photocopy of Advertisement for businesses on The Regent Cinema programme of upcoming movies.
On card from exhibition with question below asking if anyone knows what year it was

Photocopies of advertisements from Marple Guide 1960's.
Cuttings of local business from unknown sources.
A4 paper with collection of cuttings of businesses glued on : dates unknown.

Three pages from Magazines advertisement for local businesses :
1. Marple Allotment Holder Advertiser : 1920
2. Mellor Parish Magazine : 1965
3. Mellor Parish Magazine : 1977

Two Marple Area Directories from August, October 2005.
Delivered each month to residents and businesses in town,

Two Local Businesses Directory Booklets :
1. SK Local Directories 2006.
2. Inside Marple : 2011

Four Sk Local Directories dated March and July 2006. Independent guide to the businesses

Four Booklets : SK Local from 2010 and SK6 Directories : Marple Edition from 2006.

Newspaper cuttings, magazine articles, flyers and promotional material for individual local businesses including :
Helen Winterson
Yvonne Gillon
Icing on the Cake

Photocopy of a 45rpm record sleeve from J C Hibbert & Son, Pianoforte Tuners and Repairers at 61 Stockport Road, Marple.
Date Unknown

Numerous photocopies of Marple business advertisements dating from 1892 to 1943 extracted from pages of All Saint Parish Magazine.
All copies are individually dated.

Selection of newspaper articles, magazine articles, flyers and promotional material for local business, held in dated pockets from 1902 to 2015

Selection of small newspaper cuttings magazine articles relating to trading associations in the Marple Area including Marple Business Forum, Make it Marple and Marple Partnerships to benefit and promote local business in Marple.
Various publications…

Press adverts and other material relating to the following Funeral Directors and associated trades in Marple:Ian Mann : 2000, 2002, 2007 (planning application)Malcolm Shaw : 1995, 2003, 2008Brian Sharples : 1995, 2000, 2002 (X2)Arthur Vernon : 2 x…