Author: Coral Dranfield
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445625539
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Stockport has changed and developed over the years.
Author: Morris Garratt
Publisher: Phillimore
ISBN: 9781860775437
Category : Stockport (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Stockport came into existence in the Saxon period, when a market seems to have been established at the site of the ford where the Roman road south-east of Manchester crossed the river Tame, which later became the Mersey. The small town became a borough in 1260 and was also granted a Market Charter. It prospered as trades and manufactures developed, and by 1610 'Stoppart cloth' was being sold in London. The development of the Stockport region was greatly helped by improvements in transport. The road from Manchester to Buxton through Stockport was turnpiked in 1724, and by the opening decade of the 19th century Stockport was the hub of a number of turnpikes linking the expanding textile towns of north-east Cheshire. The coming of the railway created a line from Manchester to Stockport in 1840, crossing the Mersey valley on a suberb viaduct which was a triumph of Victorian railway engineering and one of the wonders of the railway age. Under the 1832 Reform Act Stockport became a parliamentary borough with two Members of Parliament, and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act gave the town its first democratically elected Council. When County Councils were established in 1888, Stockport achieved county borough status. Both local and national politics have left their mark on the community. The Civil Wars of the 1640s and 1650s, the Jacobites in 1745, Peterloo and Constable Birch, the Cotton Famine of 1861-5, as well as other incidents of civil unrest, and religious and population change, are just some of the events described in this well-researched book, fully illustrated throughout.
Author: Coral Dranfield
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398101729
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 59
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A pocket-sized, illustrated history tour of Stockport showing how the town in Greater Manchester has changed across the decades.
Author: Peter Arrowsmith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780905164991
Category : Stockport (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Author: Roy Westall
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144563113X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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An illustrated history of Stockport, originally published in hardback in 1988 and again in paperback in 1999
Author: William Astle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Author: Emma Brown
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445659999
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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A photographic journey through Stockport's history, from ancient to modern times, through its underground places.
Author: Town of Stockport Bicentennial Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stockport (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Author: Steve Cliffe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780752435251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Originally a border market town above the Mersey, with a small medieval castle, Stockport grew into the leading cotton manufacturer of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This new history looks at the evolution of the town to the present day, from Roman activity and the Civil War, through the industrial period, to the arrival of modern Stockport with the coming of the railway. This is an essential guide for anyone with an interest in gaining an insight into the proud heritage of this fascinating town.
Author: Stockport. Public Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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