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Manchester Histories Festival 2014

Manchester Histories Festival: March 29, 2014

The Wharf Marple Project

February 2021: FUNDING TARGET REACHED!

Here's the latest news from the Wharf Marple Project Team:

The Wharf Marple CIC is very pleased to announce that we are now in a position to go ahead and buy the Warehouse building from CRT.

It is thanks to you, our Investors who have pledged to buy a stake in, what is quite possibly, Marple’s most important and exciting community project, that we have reached this first important milestone.

Read More: The Marple Wharf

norman Norman Redhead friend of the Trust for many years and ex-Trust Trustree is to retire in late February. Norman has spent 28 years providing archaeological planning advice for the ten Local Planning Authorities of Greater Manchester. During this he also managed the Historic Environment Record, including delivery of a major Historic Landscape Characterisation project, and promoted community engagement and research. Spent 4 years as County Archaeologist and Director of Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit (GMAU) prior to becoming Director of the Greater Manchester Archaeological Advisory Service at the University of Salford in 2012.. This a recent email from Norman

Old Vicarage Site

Mellor Mill 1792-1892

Shaw Cairn

Where is Mellor?

Now on the edge of Stockport in Greater Manchester, Mellor's location is historically important.

On the south-west and north-west, it is bordered by the two great rivers, Goyt and Etherow, which drain the SW Peak District and join to form the Mersey at the lowest point of Mellor.

On the east, a high ridge overlooks a valley, behind which is Kinder Scout. Three spurs, separated by brooks, project west from the ridge.