Something Special about Stockport?

[Kippaxpete]

Sorry about my pedantry but Southport is PR8 and PR9 which is the Preston postcode area, even though it’s in Merseyside.

Never apologise for pedantry fella. Accuracy is your friend.
; )

 

[Eccles Blue]

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!! :-)

My eldest son went to St Augustine's RC Grammar School in Wythenshawe (gone now) and although the school came under Manchester Education Authority and the Primary school in Burnage was in Salford Diocese, St Augustine's was in the Shrewsbury Diocese!!

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Dukinfield has always been in Cheshire and always will be, nobody every says Dukinfield tameside.
Hyde and Stalybridge are also in Cheshire.

That's right Bigg fella I've lived in Stalybridge 33 years Dukinfield 20 and Hyde for 6 years and I've always wrote Cheshire on my address.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

That's right Bigg fella I've lived in Stalybridge 33 years Dukinfield 20 and Hyde for 6 years and I've always wrote Cheshire on my address.

I have never received any correspondence saying Dukinfield Tameside or Greater Manchester, always says Cheshire

 

[Grassland Blue]

That's right Bigg fella I've lived in Stalybridge 33 years Dukinfield 20 and Hyde for 6 years and I've always wrote Cheshire on my address.

What possessed you to move to Hyde??

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

What possessed you to move to Hyde??

Ex wife. Moved into her deceased great aunt's terrace at bottom end of Lodge Lane. Was in a mess but we did a lot of work on it. Good memories living there.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

There is a path right onto to A6. I use it literally every day.

I agree the river needs a clean up, but on the other side, eventually all our trash ends up in Liverpool so it has its benefits.

The left path by the lift has no gentle way to join the A6. I'll try the upper side, on the right next. Ta.

Like the shameful Manchester city centre rivers and the seas, I'd prefer no rubbish, even if it passes Scouseland.

 

[Quilted]

A remarkable fact about Stockport is that it contains some really wealthy areas (e.g. Bramhall) but also some absolute shitholes that nothing in Manchester or Salford could beat for squalor and crime.

Can't this example of local wealth disparity be applied to many places in the country though?

 

[johnny crossan]

'Fabulous' Stockport named best place to live in north-west England

Stockport is named by the Sunday Times as the most desirable spot in the north-west of England.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[RACHACE]

Nowt wrong with Stockport. Still miles prefer to do my socialising in MCR but there are one in two decent pubs in the town centre. My favourite of which would be the Magnet which is just up the hill from what's probably the worst (although now shut down) The George.

Not a huge fan of the market area. It nice enough to look at but a tad overrated from a night out perspective in my opinion but Bakers Vault abf The Boars Head are decent enough. The produce hall is a bit wank in my opinion.

Some really nice areas to live too. Cheadle Hulme, Poynton, Bramhall, Marple, Romiley that all have enough decent restaurants and bars that are probably better than what the town centre has to offer.

Much rather live in Stockport than other towns on the outskirts of Manchester.