dry-carpet-cleaners-stockportStockport Town Hall is designed by Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas. It has a magnificent ballroom that John Betjeman called "magnificent." The Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ, which was previously installed at Manchester's Paramount Theater and Odeon, can be found in this room. Greek Street faces the town hall and is home to both a war memorial as well as an art exhibition. Underbank Hall is Grade II* listed, and was originally the Bredbury family's townhouse in the early 16th century. It was used until 1823. In 1824 it was converted into a banking institution. Behind the 16th-century building, its 1915 main bank hall is situated.
Stockport Viaduct - 111 feet tall (34m), it carries four rail tracks across the River Mersey, on the route to Manchester Piccadilly. A major Victorian feat, the viaduct was made of 11,500,000 bricks and completed in only 21 months for a total cost of £70,000. This structure has been listed as Grade II*.
Stockport Pyramid - a striking structure by Christopher Denny and Michael Hyde and Associates - is situated beside the M60. This steel-framed building, with blue and white glass panels at its apex was meant to be the flagship of a larger project planned for 1987. Construction was started in 1990 and completed in 1992. Due to a downturn in the economy, the project had been abandoned. The building was empty from 1992 until 1995 when it was repossessed by The Co-operative Bank and used as a Call Centre.
Vernon Park opened to the east, towards Bredbury. It was dedicated on September 20, 1858. The anniversary of Battle of Alma, Crimean War. It is named in honour of Lord Vernon, the man who gave the town the land.
St Elisabeth's Church and Reddish model village were part of the mill community, designed by Alfred Waterhouse mainly for the workers of Houldsworth Mill.
St Mary's Church was once the center of an ecclesiastical district that included Bramhall and the surrounding towns of Bredbury Brinnington Disley Dukinfield Hyde Marple Norbury Offerton Romiley Stockport Etchells Torkington Werneth. In those towns, chapels were constructed and today the parish covers a small area. Stockport Heritage Centre, run by local volunteers, is located at the Stockport Church. The church dates back to early 14th-century parts. This church has been listed as Grade I. St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church and Our Lady and the Apostles Church, both of which are listed in Grade II, can be found within the village.
Stockport connects the M60 Manchester-Luton motorway orbital and A6, Carlisle's to Luton's, at Stockport.
Stockport station is located on the Manchester Spur of the West Coast Main Line. Avanti West Coast services are provided by CrossCountry East Midlands Railway Northern Trains TransPennine Express Transport for Wales.
Stockport was the busiest station in Greater Manchester, and one of its largest. It served many different services throughout the borough. Stockport Interchange, which is replacing the Stockport bus station that was destroyed in 2021, will begin and end services at locations near Stockport Interchange.
Stockport College can be found in the centre of Stockport. Stockport Grammar School is also located in Stockport. It was established in 1487. This school is among the oldest of its kind in north-west England.
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Hatmaking started in the north Cheshire area and south east Lancashire as early as the 16thcentury. Stockport, in the early 17th century, became a major centre for the silk and hat industries. Stockport's rapid expansion during the Industrial Revolution was made possible by the development of the textile industry. Stockport was a smoky, dusky, smoky hole, according to Friedrich Engels in 1844.
Stockport is one of the original textile towns. England couldn't produce enough silk to use in warps of woven fabric until early the 18th Century. The Italians spun the thread on a water-powered machine. John Lombe visited Italy in 1717 and copied the machine design. After returning to England, he was granted a patent for the design and began manufacturing in Derby.
The silk-spinners who lived in Manchester, Macclesfield Leek, Stockport, and other towns petitioned the parliament for a refusal to renew Lombe's patent. Lombe had been paid and Stockport's very first silk-mill (the north-west England's first water-powered fabric mill) was inaugurated in 1732, on a bend along the Mersey. More mills opened along local brooks.
By 1769 the number of people employed in silk weaving had increased to two thousand. The boom of 1772 had become a crash, perhaps due to the cheaper imports from abroad. Trade recovered by late 1770s. Throughout the entire textile era, booms and busts would be repeated.
Stockport's Principal Commercial District
Stockport's primary commercial district, the town center, is home to most of the high street stores. These can be found either in The Peel Centre or Merseyway Centre. Redrock Stockport offers a 10 screen cinema, bars and restaurants. Stockport has a distance of nine.7 km (6.8 miles), making it ideal for commuters. The council cancelled its PS500m plans for redevelopment of Stockport's town centre in 2008 after Lend Lease Corporation pulled the plug on the project. They blamed the credit crunch. The work on the project has been underway for some time now. There are talks of creating a metrolink between Manchester and Liverpool, as well as transforming old buildings into luxurious apartments. A lot of road work is also needed in the area to prepare for the planned growth.
Stockport, formerly known as Stokeport in 1170. Old English market with stoc (a hamlet) is accepted as the current etymology. Some older words include stock or a stockaded area, castle and port. Stockport Castle in the 12th century is probably what this castle refers to. This motte-and bailey was mentioned for the first time in 1173.
Stockport's Roman military station is not well documented, in spite of the strong local traditions. This is based on the assumption that road from Cheadle, to Ardotalia was buried along a highway for protection.
Stockport's bridge is documented to have existed at least since 1282. During the English Civil War Stockport supported the government and the local militias were garrisoned with around 3000 soldiers under Majors Mainwaring, Duckenfield. Prince Rupert, with up to 10,000 soldiers and 50 cannons, advanced into the town of Marston Moor on May 25, 1644. A brief battle took place at the location of the bridge in which the Royalists attacked. Rupert's march continued via Manchester and Bolton, where he met defeat near York at Marston Moor. Stockport bridge, which was built in 1745 to serve as a barrier to the Jacobite armies of Charles Edward Stuart on their march through Stockport to Derby, was destroyed. Trenches were also dug to protect the fords. Stockport's town guard shot at the vanguard and killed a horse. Stockport is also where the army passed on their way back from Derby towards Scotland
Stockport's Historical Figures
Stockport boasts a long-standing legend of Cheshire's Jonathan Thatcher. Thatcher avoided Pitt the Younger's saddle tax by riding his ox on the Stockport Market in 1784. The Glass Umbrella at St Petersgate Gardens in Stockport is another work that celebrates this event.
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