Something Special about Stockport?

Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
To be fair I know a lot of people, who wouldn’t say Stockport is part of greater Manchester. It’s always been Cheshire.
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There’s probably even more people in Altrincham, Hale and Bowdon who would rather boil their head in a pot of piss than acknowledge that they live in Greater Manchester.

Unfortunately for all of them, Geography is a matter of fact, not an opinion.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
I go in several times a week as I have an office nearby. It would be insane to charge entry.

Reckon someone mugged him off haha
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No, they were charging entry into the glass structure, the old indoor market. Admittedly it was only 50p, only the door opposite the produce hall was open, all the other doors were locked.
 
Stephen230 said:
There’s probably even more people in Altrincham, Hale and Bowdon who would rather boil their head in a pot of piss than acknowledge that they live in Greater Manchester.

Unfortunately for all of them, Geography is a matter of fact, not an opinion.
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Isn’t it more boundary changes and government, rather than geography?

For a lot of people Manchester was and still is Lancashire and places like Wigan arent really greater Manchester at all.
 
urban genie said:
Ha HA always annoy someone that commemt geopraphically it will always be in the paletine like Manchester is Lancashire.

But yes administratively it hasn't been Cheshire for 90 yrs


Always remember my great aunt from dukinfield insist she was from cheshire not thameside or greater manchester as itnwas whem she was born in1906
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Dukinfield has always been in Cheshire and always will be, nobody every says Dukinfield tameside.
Hyde and Stalybridge are also in Cheshire.
 
nw42 said:
No, they were charging entry into the glass structure, the old indoor market. Admittedly it was only 50p, only the door opposite the produce hall was open, all the other doors were locked.
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Must’ve been some sort of one-off special event on, as I said above I go in there several times a week as my office is about 10 seconds away, it’s a nice market but I’d laugh if they charged in!
 
Stephen230 said:
Not really. They play in the borough of Trafford, in the county of Greater Manchester.
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"Gatley, Cheadle, Heald Green, Stockport, Sale, Altrincham, Hale. Pubs shut. Greater Manchester. No matter how much some of the residents insist otherwise."
As is Stockport, a metropolitan borough.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
Isn’t it more boundary changes and government, rather than geography?

For a lot of people Manchester was and still is Lancashire and places like Wigan arent really greater Manchester at all.
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Despite Saddleworth Urban District being amalgamated into Greater Manchester in 1974, many locals still vehemently insist that they live in Yorkshire.
Similarly, a campaign was mounted some years ago by the good people of Southport to remove their district from the Merseyside post code area. Then again, who can blame them? It failed incidentally.
 
Kippaxpete said:
Despite Saddleworth Urban District being amalgamated into Greater Manchester in 1974, many locals still vehemently insist that they live in Yorkshire.
Similarly, a campaign was mounted some years ago by the good people of Southport to remove their district from the Merseyside post code area. Then again, who can blame them? It failed incidentally.
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Why would you want to shout about that?
 
Blue Llama said:
"Gatley, Cheadle, Heald Green, Stockport, Sale, Altrincham, Hale. Pubs shut. Greater Manchester. No matter how much some of the residents insist otherwise."
As is Stockport, a metropolitan borough.
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Only part the ceremonial GM county since 1974 and before 1906 was entirely in Cheshire before acquiring bits of Lancashire & Derbyshire. Cheshire remains its postal address.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
Isn’t it more boundary changes and government, rather than geography?

For a lot of people Manchester was and still is Lancashire and places like Wigan arent really greater Manchester at all.
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Are the boundaries of Stockport not geographical (that’s not a rhetorical question, I genuinely don’t know)?

Areas I know around South Manchester/South Greater Manchester are that the River Bollin is what separates Greater Manchester’s Trafford from Cheshire (sorry everyone from Altrincham, you really are from Greater Manchester) and Manchester (Wythenshawe) from Cheshire.
And the boundary between Trafford and Manchester at the Altrincham/Wythenshawe boundary (or more precisely the Timperley/Baguley boundary) is the Fairywell Brook.
 
M23 Citizen said:
Are the boundaries of Stockport not geographical (that’s not a rhetorical question, I genuinely don’t know)?

Areas I know around South Manchester/South Greater Manchester are that the River Bollin is what separates Greater Manchester’s Trafford from Cheshire (sorry everyone from Altrincham, you really are from Greater Manchester) and Manchester (Wythenshawe) from Cheshire.
And the boundary between Trafford and Manchester at the Altrincham/Wythenshawe boundary (or more precisely the Timperley/Baguley boundary) is the Fairywell Brook.
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Stockport comes under Merseyside.
When a mate many years ago, wished to marry a woman who had been divorced in a Catholic church, they were told that they would have to seek permission from the head honcho in Liverpool. Apparently the church uses boundaries from waaaaay back, and to them it is part of Merseyside.

Dippers!! :-)
 
The Train Manager on my train has just announced "The bustling metropolis that is called Stockport is the next stop for this train". But what does he know?
 
Kippaxpete said:
Despite Saddleworth Urban District being amalgamated into Greater Manchester in 1974, many locals still vehemently insist that they live in Yorkshire.
Similarly, a campaign was mounted some years ago by the good people of Southport to remove their district from the Merseyside post code area. Then again, who can blame them? It failed incidentally.
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Sorry about my pedantry but Southport is PR8 and PR9 which is the Preston postcode area, even though it’s in Merseyside.
 
staffsblue said:
The Train Manager on my train has just announced "The bustling metropolis that is called Stockport is the next stop for this train". But what does he know?
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I used to regularly travel to Irlam from town on the train and it always seemed to be the same guard for some reason. The train terminated there and everyday he would announce slight variations along the lines of:

“We are now approaching the hell hole known as Irlam. You must leave the train here but you do so at your own risk.”

First time it raised a few half smiles. But people got seriously pissed off hearing it every day. Considering the majority probably lived there, not surprising really.
 
Stephen230 said:
I used to regularly travel to Irlam from town on the train and it always seemed to be the same guard for some reason. The train terminated there and everyday he would announce slight variations along the lines of:

“We are now approaching the hell hole known as Irlam. You must leave the train here but you do so at your own risk.”

First time it raised a few half smiles. But people got seriously pissed off hearing it every day. Considering the majority probably lived there, not surprising really.
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Yeah, one of my pet hates is on train staff who think they are comedians.
 
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