I may live here, but it doesn’t mean that I’m not still learning after 4 years! I went on a heritage walk at the weekend and was blown away by the civil engineering miracle that is Stockport. Yeah there’s a big brick structure (the Viaduct) and a great big glass pyramid – but the modern town centre is built on a single vastly wide bridge over the river mersey and one of the roads (lower hillgate?) that lead to it is actually over another brook too. The ground floor of the buildings are actually the original first floor! And the hill that old castle used to be on was cut away at the bottom to ensure that a 30-40 foot wall was the first thing you came across when you arrived. The wall’s just about visible where they’re building flats, opposite the back of the coop…