Welcome to Marple Local History Society website
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The Society's Online Archives & for many of the Society's images
The Manchester Local Image Collection is a rich photographic record of Manchester, its people, streets and buildings. The online archive has over 90,000 images of Manchester and Greater Manchester.
Programme for our 2024 - 2025 Season
Browse a record of the 2023 - 2024 Season to get a feel for what to expect.
Next Meeting: 17th February 2025:
‘Railway Navvies' with Kevin Harrison
The story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.
An educating evening ahead on 17th February !
