Stockport

the pic is of the glass pyramid through the big brick viaduct. The road is the m60.

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…

Stockport is a nice place to live. Convenient for getting into Manchester or the Cheshire countryside. Great transport links, with easy accesss to the M60, Manchester airport and a good station on the Manchester-London line with lots of trains.

There’s a lot of Victorian architecture, including a big viaduct that carries the railway line, and a bunch of different mills.
If you like modern architecture, the co-op pyramid is cool, especially at night.
The Victorian market is excellent for buying local produce.

I guess it is OK but not somewhere I would go out of my way to visit.

A Freiendly place. Come and see us, you’ll have a good time.

Home to the second largest brick built structure in western europe. Probably.