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Contrasting years at Marple Station
Next Meeting: 18th March 2024:
Geoffrey Scargill - ‘Elgar: The Real Enigma’
A full list of this season's meetings is here.
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To find information within the website you may wish to use the search box within the top banner, above. Using this facility and the search terms ‘Strines’ and ‘Mill Brow' produced 41 results and 31 results respectively.
Elsewhere: The History of Stockport in 100 Halls
Featured Article:
February 2024: The Plaza Theatre & Super Cinema
Ted Doan
The Plaza has always been much more than a cinema. It has offered style and glamour as well as a variety of entertainment to many generations of young Stopfordians. As such it needed a showman to tell its story and, with Ted Doan, that is exactly what we got. Ted regaled us for an hour with stories and anecdotes about the history of the Plaza, intertwined with his own career, all without a ubiquitous PowerPoint presentation and with not a note in sight. However, as Ted reminded us several times, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story”, so this report should be read with that in mind.