KFM originally broadcast on 94.2 MHz FM from a studio on Middle Hillgate, Stockport with the transmitter and aerial at Goyt Mill in Marple from November 1983 to February 1985.
During the 1860s, the North Staffordshire Railway collaborated with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway (MS&LR) to construct a joint railway between Macclesfield and Marple near Manchester.
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The novel was adapted for the fourth series of the British television series Marple broadcast on ITV on 6 September 2009, starring Julia McKenzie as the title character.
He has appeared in TV dramas including Casualty, Marple and Lewis, is the son of Love Thy Neighbour star Jack Smethurst, and is married to fellow actor Rakie Ayola, with whom he has one daughter and is expecting a second.
The Altrincham Aces were a semi-professional and amateur ice hockey team of the English National Ice Hockey League, based out of the old Altrincham Ice Rink, situated on Devonshire Road in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England.
The animal hospitals are still in use today and are situated at Sonderburg Road in Islington, North London, Clarendon Drive in Putney, South London, and Eccles New Road, Salford, Greater Manchester.
The largest population of Barbodhians outside India is in Bolton, Greater Manchester, where the community settled in the 1950s and 1960s.
Speakman's Sidings between Tyldesley Station and Bedford Leigh Station were provided after 1882.
Bryn Hall Colliery was a coal mine on the Lancashire Coalfield in Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.
This single was recorded, mixed and produced by Tim Scott at Acer Studios, Greater Manchester, mastered on December 16, 2010 by Geoff Pesche in Suite 5 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Networked presenters are based with sister stations Key 103 in Manchester and Metro Radio in Newcastle.
The New Local Government Network proposed the creation of city regions as part of on-going reform efforts, while a report released by the IPPR's Centre for Cities proposed the creation of four large city-regions based on Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Greater Manchester.
Coinslot originated as a section of the World's Fair newspaper, published by the eponymous publishing house based in Oldham, Greater Manchester, before becoming a separate title at the end of the 1960s.
This single was recorded, mixed and produced by Tim Scott at Acer Studios, Greater Manchester, mastered on 19 July 2010 by Geoff Pesche in Suite 5 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Empress Mill, Ince was a single storey shed mill alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, spinning cotton in Ince, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
He then worked in a number of well-known hotels in Europe, Palasthotel (East Berlin), Grand Hotel Regina (Grindelwald, Switzerland), The Dorchester (Mayfair, London), The Berkeley (London), The Lanesborough (London), Claridge's (London), The Ritz (London), Choupana Hills in Madeira and the Lowry Hotel in Manchester, UK.
In 2009, after the publication of several more books, including one titled Front of the Class that led to a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on it, Marple and Rutter agreed to sell V&B to Quick Publishing, a small press in St. Louis, Missouri.
The promotion runs shows in the North West of England, mainly in the Greater Manchester area at The Rose Club (formerly known as The Monaco Ballroom) in Hindley Wigan running between 8 and 10 times a year.
The Haslingden Canal was a proposed canal link between the Bury arm of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in Greater Manchester, England, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Accrington, England, passing through Haslingden.
She also worked as Chief Assistant Librarian for part of Greater Manchester, a role that included responsibility for libraries in 110 schools, eleven public children's libraries, and four colleges.
The NCB continued to use Austerities in the 1970s and a small number remained in service until the early 1980s, notably at Bickershaw Colliery, Greater Manchester.
Hyde Central is served by a half-hourly weekday & Saturday (until 19.00) DMU service either way between Manchester Piccadilly and Rose Hill Marple.
Jennifer James (born Jennifer Marie Reynolds; 3 December 1977) is an English actress born in Billinge Higher End, Wigan in Greater Manchester.
In addition to his everyday banding activities Maines was for many years the presenter of the long running BBC weekly band programme "GMR Brass” and in 1999 received the Manchester Music Makers award for his contribution to music broadcasting in the Greater Manchester area.
An unsuspecting family in Oldham, Greater Manchester, found themselves inundated with calls from fans in the UK who dialled the number without using the international dialling code prefix for the United States.
At the 2005 General Election, Ranger stood as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Makerfield, Greater Manchester, against the Labour incumbent Ian McCartney.
LTI was founded in 2000 by H. Donald Wilson (chairman), a lawyer, Lexus Nexus entrepreneur and business associate of Arthur Lessac; and Gary A. Marple (chief inventor), after Marple suggested that Arthur Lessac's kinesensic voice training might be applicable to computational linguistics.
The 2007 television adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel, Marple Mystery: At Bertram's Hotel, opens with the hotel desk clerk repeating the full "Miss Otis Regrets" line to a Mr. Porter on the telephone.
The Yorkshire Dales end at Skipton, and a short distance to the south is a range of moors that rises up between the urban cores of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.
A 2008 adaptation, with the inclusion of Miss Marple (played by Julia McKenzie), was included in the fourth season of Marple; it deviated significantly from the novel by removing, adding, and changing characters, adding subplots, and changing the murderer's motives.
Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane, Nether Wallop was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC adaptations, played by British actress Joan Hickson of the Agatha Christie Miss Marple novels.
New Hall moated site is a scheduled monument in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England.
North Chadderton School is a mixed gender comprehensive school and sixth form for 11–18 year olds, located in Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.
Part of the line still exists at the Scunthorpe end and is used to access a landfill site near Roxby which receives trainloads of household rubbish from various locations in the Greater Manchester area.
Oldham King Street Metrolink station is a stop on the Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system and is located opposite Oldham Sixth Form College, at the junction of King Street and Union Street in Oldham, England.
Pennine Blue, later known as First Pennine, was a bus company serving the Tameside area of Greater Manchester, England.
Saddleworth was originally established as one of many settlements on the road to Burra, and was named after Saddleworth Lodge pastoral station, a local landholding which itself was named after a town of Saddleworth in Greater Manchester (formerly in Yorkshire), England.
St Augustine of Canterbury RC High Specialist Humanities School was a Roman Catholic high school for 11-16 year olds, located in Werneth within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford.
The village was first mentioned in a Miss Marple book in 1930, when it was the setting for the first Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage.
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Christie first described a village of that name prior to the introduction of Jane Marple, in the Hercule Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train, in which it was home to that book's protagonist Katherine Grey.
Stockport Sports F.C. is a football club based in Woodley, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
It was laid out on section 1283, Hundred of Light in 1845 by Samuel Stocks junior, naming it for his birthplace, Stockport in Cheshire (now Greater Manchester), England.
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and Four and Twenty Blackbirds have been turned into Anime, on the series Agatha Christie no Meitantei Poirot to Marple (2004).
The Group moved into the energy sector in 2008 with the opening of Scout Moor Wind Farm on the West Pennine Moors in Greater Manchester nearby Edenfield and Rochdale.
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In 1986, Peel submitted a planning application for a large shopping centre development on land attached to the Manchester Ship Canal, adjacent to the M63, now the M60, in Trafford, Greater Manchester.
Some elements of the plot were also incorporated into the 1964 film Murder Ahoy!, which starred Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple, along with a token tribute to The Mousetrap.
She was born on 10 February 1882 in Broughton, Salford, in what was then the County of Lancaster, (now Greater Manchester), to an English father (the Revd Ernest Letts) and Irish mother (Isabel Mary Ferrier).