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Trinity Chapel on Market Street, roughly where Iceland is now

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Next Meeting : Monday February 17th

Neil Mullineux – The Leghs of Lyme: How to join the aristocrac

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Marple Memories 1940-47
Keith Denerley

All Saints' School on Church Lane 

(Keith Denerley lived in Marple during the Second World War and his memories of that time cast a fascinating light on everyday life during a very difficult period. He went on to become a vicar and never returned to live in Marple.)

Reminiscing about Marple in the 1940’s with a friend recently, she thought I ought to set such things down, so here goes.

My parents, sister and I moved from Didsbury Road, Stockport, early in the war, as the house (Richmond Lodge) where we lived was next to some railway marshalling yards, a favorite target of enemy bombers. My father had a chemist’s shop on Brinksway, Stockport, and also one on Stockport Road, Marple, that I believe is still there. We lived above the shop. There was a post office next door (where the son rejoiced in an O gauge electric railway), and a garage opposite.

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