User:Mr Stephen/sandbox 3

Creation, expansion

 * 1835 Stockport Municipal Borough created. The borough comprised Stockport township plus parts of Brinnington, Cheadle Bulkeley, Cheadle Moseley, and Heaton Norris townships.
 * 1889 Stockport County Borough created. Those parts of the borough in Lancashire  – ie part of Heaton Norris – transferred to Cheshire (according to Arrowsmith).
 * 1901 Stockport CB expanded into parts of Cheadle & Gatley, Hazel Grove & Bramhall, and Brinnington and all of Reddish. Reddish and part of Heaton Norris transferred to Cheshire (according to the VicHist).
 * 1913 Stockport CB expanded to include most of the remainder of Heaton Norris. Some of Heaton Norris — presumably the part added to Stockport – transferred to Cheshire (according to VicHist).
 * 1934 Stockport CB expanded to include Offerton.
 * 1952 Stockport CB expanded to include the remainder of Brinnington.


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History
Barony of Stockport. Reddish & the Heatons. Civil war.

An 1816 enquiry found that children from the age of five were working in the hatting industry.

Food riots

Turnpike. Railway. More textiles/ steam power

Engineering.

Culverting of the Mersey.

WWII. Generally safe, evacuees, factories @ reddish, Heaton Chapel.

1960s, jolly green giant, power station, mills. All down.

Parliamentary representation (need to cover N&S). Vichist of Chesh, no polls for 100 years. Expansion of Stockport north of the river. Rebuffal by Cheadle. Incorporation into SMBC.

Architecture
Pevsner and Hubbard wrote in 1972 "Architecturally, Stockport is rarely praised &#8230;"; While only one really significant building has been constructed since then, many of the less agreeable industrial structures close to the centre of the town have been demolished. In common with the rest of Greater Manchester, Cheshire and south Lancashire, there are no buildings whatsoever predating the Norman conquest.

Stockport parish church has an early 14th century chancel (most of the rest of the church is Victorian restoration).

Staircase House. Timber-framed 'black and white' - Three Shires, Nat West. Dodge?? St Thomas?? in Heaton Chapel is about1760, though with modern additions etc; there is one more pre-1800 church (St Peter's?).

St Georges. St Elisabeths. St Thomas Viaduct. Reddish Mills.

A large glass pyramid by Hyde and Associates is a prominent landmark by the M60 motorway. The building was the only one built out of five originally planned. The Co-op Bank took control of the building after after the original developer failed. 80,000 square feet offices, No buyer so moved in.

Extents
Brinnington, Cheadle Bulkely, Offerton, Heaton Norris, Reddish, Stockport,

Arnie
The large scale of the Arndale was not repeated, with poor architectural quality and blight of nearby streets sometimes cited as reasons.
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On its opening, journalists wrote unsympathetically about the methods – then new to the UK, now commonplace – used to control the flow of shoppers. Major stores were placed well apart, forcing travel between them. Ostensibly decorative items, such as seats and pot plants, prevented rapid transit, and encouraged browsing in the smaller shops. Entrances were easy to find from the outside, but hard to find from the inside. Some people liked it. Ward describes the companion of an “elderly gent” taking a trip to the Arndale rather than a day by the sea at Llandudno. Others complained about the heat and the music. Ward speculated that bulldozers would soon be tearing down the mall.

Arndales in general described as “spacious and frankly luxurious”. “Synonymous with quality and scale”.

As opened, the centre had no internal daylight; in order to concentrate shoppers’ attentions on the displays, lighting was uniform with occasional spotlit features.

Market street “depressing and decaying” for 30 years (in 1976).

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