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The plate girder bridge at the eastern end of Marple Viaduct, c.1908
PRESS RELEASE: THE WHARF MARPLE CIC
Community backed The Wharf Marple CIC takes ownership of an iconic Grade 2 listed Wharf Warehouse in Marple.
The Wharf Marple CIC and local investors today are excited and proud to announce the acquisition of The Wharf Warehouse. This momentous achievement is a long held dream to save the Wharf Warehouse, an historically important canal side building in Marple that had been at risk of conversion to residential.
The CIC’s plan, having taken ownership, is to renovate The Wharf to be a Community Café, and Heritage Centre with a much-needed health and well-being facility on the first floor.
The Wharf Marple Community Interest Company (CIC), a social enterprise has, for some time, been committed to acquiring, renovating and bringing back into use the well- known former warehouse exclusively for the Marple community. The Marple community gave the scheme their full support investing £190,000 which together with match funded grant from Government’s Community Ownership Fund of £200,000 and smaller grants from McNair Trust and Heritage Lottery Fund, meant that the CIC have been able to buy the Warehouse building and start the renovations.
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Marple Local History Society would like to thank Mark Whittaker for his indispensable help and contribution in designing and setting up this website, which he continues to host on behalf of the Society.