Secret Stockport

Ian Littlechilds, Phil Page

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445651378
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

Stockport sits on elevated ground 7 miles south-east of the city centre of Manchester. No part of Stockport is recorded in the Domesday Book but there are records that show a castle was built in the area in the late twelfth century and the first borough charter was granted around 1220. The town developed in size during the Industrial Revolution when its site at the confluence of the rivers Tame, Goyt and Mersey provided the water sources needed for the development of a number of mills. Today a walk around the narrow streets and passages of Hillgate provides evidence of Stockport's rich history with the fifteenth-century Staircase House and the quaint cobbled streets surrounding the market sitting in the shadow of the historic Church of St Mary. Venture out of the centre, however, and you will find Stockport is rich in myth and legend. From the witch of Reddish Vale and ghosts of Bramall Hall to the beautifully restored, Art Deco Plaza Theatre, there is always something to catch the imagination of those visitors who wish to uncover the hidden secrets of this fascinating town.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Introduction
• Some Important Dates In Stockport’s Development
• Around Stockport
• Robinsons Brewery
• The Gates of Stockport
• St Mary’s Church and Graveyard
• Almshouses
• The Market Place and Surrounding Area
• Around the Town
• Stockport Viaduct
• The River Mersey Starts
• Merseyway and Stockport Town Centre
• The Plaza
• Robinsons Visitors Centre
• Robinsons Public Houses
• Robinsons Shire Horses
• The Heatons Red Cross Hospitals and the First World War 1914–18
• Outside the Town Centre
• Vernon Park
• Stockport County Football Club
• The A6 (Wellington Road) – The Country’s First Town Bypass.
• Hopes Carr
• Hopes Carr and the Stockport Air Disaster.
• Stockport Brinksway
• The Trans Pennine Trail (TPT)
• Stockport Caves
• Heaton Mersey Valley Nature Park and Conservation Area
• The Crown Inn and the Salt Road through the Heatons
• The Coming of the Railways and the Lost Stations of Stockport
• Canal Cruises from Heaton Norris
• The Regent Marple
• Marple
• The Savoy
• The Poco A Poco, Heaton Norris, 1939–87
• Stockport Garrick Theatre
• Bramall Hall
• Bramhall Park
• Happy Valley
• Reddish Vale Country Park
• The River Tame
• Acknowledgements