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Chapel Walk, STOCKPORT, SK6 6BG

The former RBS Bank on Market Street Image

A pedestrianised area in the centre of the town.

On Market Street.

Key cutters and shoe repair shop next to an Italian restaurant.

On the right is Roger Fisher, opticians. In the middle is The Samuel Oldknow. Named after the local businessman and mill owner who was responsible for much of the development of Marple and Mellor some 200 years ago. The micro-pub opened in 2016 and has a somewhat quirky two level bar in a converted shop. On the left is Bevi, another micro-pub in what used to be a newsagents, Note: Photograph is for record purposes only. The photographer has no personal connection with the businesses depicted.

The B6101 through Marple. The former Marple Electric Store Image at the end of a row of shops which includes Costa Coffee Image now houses Byles bedding showroom which has relocated from Hyde Image The waiting bus is a High Peak service to Glossop.

Helen Winterson's http://www.helenwinterson.co.uk/index.html is an independent Ladies Fashion Retailer. Helen Winterson trained as a tailoress in 1926 and started the business in 1953 in a small corner shop in Hawk Green. In 1973 it moved into the former Co-op building on Market Street. The old clock Image on the shop front was restored in 2003 to celebrate fifty years in business.

The Clock on the former Co-op building which houses Helen Winterson's Ladies Fashions Image was originally commissioned in 1898. It had not gone for many years so to mark Helen Winterson's fifty years in business in Marple, the owner Judi Winterson, decided that it was time to have it renovated. With the encouragement of Marple Civic Society and the Marple Regeneration Partnership, local clock restorer Symon Boyd was engaged to start work on removing the old clock from its tower. He painstakingly covered the original Chapter Ring and Hands with 23.5 carat gold leaf, renewed the clock face and light and installed a modern accurate mechanism. An inscription on the clock face "1953-2003" records the fact that Judi's mother Helen Winterson established the business fifty years ago and that it is still going strong. The original mechanism, made by Fosters of Manchester (a flat bed dead beat escarpment for the enthusiast) incorporated a 10 foot pendulum and a weights cupboard and someone had to climb into the clock housing each week to wind it up. The Worshipful the Mayor of Stockport Councillor David Brailsford unveiled the refurbished old Co-op Clock at 10.30 am on Wednesday 30th April 2003. http://www.marple-uk.com/heritage/winterson.htm