Stockport

Stockport est une ville anglaise située au sud de Manchester, chef lieu du district du même nom, dans le Grand Manchester, sur la Mersey. Elle comptait 136 082 habitants en 2001. La ville héberge le club football de Stockport County. Le batteur du groupe Muse, Dominic Howard, y est né.

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Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England; it lies 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Manchester, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and 12 miles (19 km) north of Macclesfield. The rivers Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. It is the main settlement of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. At the 2021 census, the built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 117,935, and the metropolitan borough had a population of 294,773. Most of the town is within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, with the area north of the Mersey in the historic county of Lancashire. Stockport in the 16th century was a small town entirely on the south bank of the Mersey, known for the cultivation of hemp and manufacture of rope. In the 18th century, it had one of the first mechanised silk factories in the British Isles. Stockport's predominant industries of the 19th century were the cotton and allied industries. It was also at the centre of the country's hatting industry, which by 1884 was exporting more than six million hats a year; the last hat works in Stockport closed in 1997. The town's football club, Stockport County, is nicknamed The Hatters. Dominating the western approaches to the town is Stockport Viaduct. Built in 1840, its 27 brick arches carry the main line railway through the town over the River Mersey and the M60 motorway.

Stockport air disaster

On 4 June 1967, a Canadair C-4 Argonaut passenger aircraft owned by British Midland Airways operating as British Midland Flight 542 crashed near the centre of Stockport, Cheshire, England. Of the 84 people on board, 72 were killed. It is the fourth-worst accident in British aviation history, and happened just a day after the 1967 Air Ferry DC-4 accident

Old Rectory, Stockport

The Old Rectory is a Georgian building in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, that formerly served as a rectory. It is designated as a Grade II* listed building and was converted into a pub-restaurant in 1991.

Imagine FM

Imagine FM was an Independent Local Radio station based in Stockport broadcasting to South Manchester and Cheshire in the North West of England.

Strawberry Studios

Strawberry Studios was a recording studio in Stockport, historically in Cheshire, now within Greater Manchester, England. Founded in 1968, it operated until the early 1990s. Strawberry Studios was used by a range of artists including the Ramones, 10cc, Joy Division, Neil Sedaka, Barclay James Harvest, the Smiths, the Stone Roses, the Moody Blues, Paul McCartney, Wax and Cliff Richard.