About Us
Marple Promotions was formed in 2002 by The Marple Website founders Mark Whittaker and Peter Clarke, along with friend and fellow local history enthusiast John Wilkinson. We realised that despite all Marple has going for it there was little effort made to promote the town either as a tourist attraction, or in any other way.
We decided to try and do something about this and our objective was to develop ways to raise the profile of Marple and promote the town and its assets to the wider world. We also wished to gain interest in and support for the preservation of what is left of Marple's heritage.
We've achieved at least some of our objectives with the production of the range of local products featured on this web site.
Our first contribution to this was the production of a set of eight postcards of local canal scenes showing Marple at its very best. We followed this up with a series of eight open cards depicting more of Marple's great attractions. We built on these foundations towards the end of 2002 with the creation of 12 Christmas cards and a Marple and Mellor 2003 calendar in time for the end of the year. In 2005/6 we maintained our momentum by extending our ranges of postcards, open cards and Christmas cards, not to mention our Marple Mug.
Since then we have put the experienced gained with our first calendar to good use and produced a better one each year. In 2006, for the first time, we were able to donate the profits from our calendar to local causes and by the end of 2009 the total amount donated was £4,700. Our calendar for 2010 was the first to have photographs contributed by members of the local community and we have decided to do this again for 2011. We hope it will enable us to continue supporting local causes we believe to be worthy.
Our products can be found on sale in local shops and the Ring o' Bells pub, or available here on the Internet. Hopefully they'll find their way all around the country, if not the world, showing just what Marple has to offer.
We've chosen to feature Marple Aqueduct as our logo because, as Marple's most significant remaining historical landmark, it typifies the aspects of Marple's history and heritage we wish to promote and preserve. We were delighted when Stockport Council consulted us over the designs for the lampost features at the entrances to Marple and we were able to get our logo built into them!
If you'd like more information about our activities please get in touch using the Contact Us page.