stockport carpet cleanersStockport Town Hall has been designed by Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas. The ballroom, described by John Betjeman in his book as "magnificent," contains the Wurlitzer pipe organ, previously located in Manchester's Paramount theater and Odeon. Greek Street is opposite the Stockport Town Hall. The art gallery and war memorial are located there. Underbank Hall, a Grade II*-listed timber-framed late 16th century building that was once the Bredbury townhouse for the Arderne Family from Bredbury until 1823. It has been a bank since 1824. The main hall, which dates to 1915, is located behind the 16th century structure.
Stockport Viaduct - 111 feet tall (34m), it carries four rail tracks across the River Mersey, on the route to Manchester Piccadilly. This feat of Victorian engineering was built in just 21 months and cost PS70,000. The 11,000,000 brick viaduct is a great example of Victorian engineering. The structure is Grade II*-listed.
Stockport Pyramid - a striking structure by Christopher Denny and Michael Hyde and Associates - is situated beside the M60. It was built in 1987 as the centerpiece of a massive development. Construction was started in 1990 and completed in 1992. Due to a downturn in the economy, the project had been abandoned. It remained empty for many years until The Co-operative Bank took possession of it in 1995 and turned it into a call center.
Vernon Park opened to the east, towards Bredbury. It was dedicated on September 20, 1858. The anniversary of Battle of Alma, Crimean War. The land was given to Bredbury by Lord Vernon.
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 is the oldest church in the town. It was also the heart of a vast ecclesiastical area that covered Bramhall 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 Center is housed in parts of the Church, located near the Market Place, that date back to the beginning of the 14th century. Volunteers run the centre on the days when the market takes place. The Grade I-listed church. St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church and Our Lady and the Apostles Church both have a Grade II listing.
Stockport serves as a crossing for the M60 Manchester orbital motorway (which connects Carlisle and Luton) and A6, which links Carlisle with Luton.
Stockport station is located on the Manchester Spur of the West Coast Main Line. The station is serviced by Avanti West Coast and CrossCountry services, as well as East Midlands Railways, Northern Trains TransPennine Express, Transport for Wales, Northern Trains.
Stockport bus terminal, which was a major terminus in Greater Manchester for a number of services, is now being rebuilt into Stockport Interchange. 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 has its headquarters in Stockport's town center. Stockport Grammar School, founded in Stockport in 1487 is another of the oldest institutions in England.
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 houses a ten screen cinema as well bars and a number of restaurants. Stockport is only nine.7km (6 miles) away from Manchester. This makes it easy for commuters to get there and convenient for shopping. 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. There are also many roadworks in order to accommodate the growth that is expected from this development.
Stockport is recorded in 1170 as "Stokeport". 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. Stockport was a strong supporter of the Parliament during the English Civil War and had local militias of 3000 men under the command of Majors Mainwaring & Duckenfield. Prince Rupert attacked the town with between 8 and 10,000 men, 50 guns on 25 May, 1644. There was a short skirmish near the bridge where Colonel Washington's Dragoons were the Royalists. Rupert continued marching via Manchester, Bolton until he was defeated near York on Marston Moor. Stockport bridge and fords trenches had been dug up in 1745 in order to try to stop Charles Edward Stuart's Jacobite army as it passed through Stockport en route to Derby. 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
The legend of Stockport is the story of Cheshire farmer Jonathan Thatcher who in 1784, as a protest against Pitt the Younger, rode to Stockport's market on an ox. The Glass Umbrella, a work on Stockport's Arts Trail, also celebrates the incident.
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Hatmaking started in the north Cheshire area and south east Lancashire as early as the 16thcentury. Stockport developed into a centre of the hatting and silk industries in the 17th Century. Stockport experienced rapid growth during the Industrial Revolution. The cotton industry was particularly important in this. Stockport's rapid economic development took its toll. In 1844, 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Engels said that Stockport "was renowned as being one of the duskiest and smokiest craters" of all the industrial areas.
Stockport has been a textile prototype. 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. On his return, he received a design patent and began production in Derby.
Lombe sought to extend his patent, but silk spinners, from Manchester, Macclesfield Leek & Stockport, petitioned successfully to parliament, asking that the patent not be renewed. Lombe got paid, and Stockport's silk mill was built in 1732 on a bend of the Mersey. It was the first textile mill powered by water in the North-West region. Additional mills were also opened in local brooks.
By 1769 the number of people employed in silk weaving had increased to two thousand. A cheaper imported product may have caused the bust in 1772. But by 1770, trade had rebounded. The textile industry would experience a cycle of boom and crash throughout its history.
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