epw019110 ENGLAND (1927). Wellington Bridge and Mersey Bridge, Stockport, 1927
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| Title | [EPW019110] Wellington Bridge and Mersey Bridge, Stockport, 1927 |
| Reference | EPW019110 |
| Date | 4-August-1927 |
| Link | |
| Place name | STOCKPORT |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 389306, 390358 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -2.1608918910413, 53.409666526628 |
| National Grid Reference | SJ893904 |
Pins
 Billy Turner |
Wednesday 9th of December 2015 07:12:08 PM | |
Talbot Sunbeam Darracq on the roof, although the merged companies were known as Sunbeam Talbot Darracq, or STD Motors |
 pfg |
Saturday 16th of July 2016 12:21:27 AM |
 Tram depot |
ianscarb |
Friday 28th of February 2014 06:46:11 PM |
| The Chestergate Tavern - still there! |
John Ellis |
Thursday 15th of November 2012 08:57:15 PM |
| Bridgefield Street |
totoro |
Monday 23rd of July 2012 10:05:29 PM |
| This road going uphill, leading up from the River Mersey towards Petersgate is called Mersey Square as is the road in front of the Fire Station |
totoro |
Monday 23rd of July 2012 10:03:29 PM |
| The road in front of the CoOp is called Chestergate, changing to Great Underbank about where it turns slightly to the left |
totoro |
Monday 23rd of July 2012 10:02:31 PM |
| Mersey Bridge. The area between Wellington Bridge and Mersey Bridge is covered over and called The Bear Pit. From Mersey Bridge upwards to the top of the picture has been covered over and form a shopping centre called Mersey way. |
totoro |
Monday 23rd of July 2012 10:01:06 PM |
Before the shopping center was built it was a road (Merseyway)regarded at the time as quite an engineering feat. I lived in Stockport in the 1940's and remember being fascinated by the river under the road. |
Keith |
Wednesday 12th of November 2014 07:57:24 PM |
| Daw Bank. This plot is now a bus station. |
totoro |
Monday 23rd of July 2012 09:56:16 PM |
| Wellington mill |
robertcollister |
Monday 2nd of July 2012 02:05:16 PM |
| Plaza Theatre |
JB |
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 01:07:27 AM |
Built in 1932- in this photo still the old cottages |
totoro |
Sunday 1st of July 2012 09:03:27 PM |
The site of the Plaza is to the left of the pin location, where the cottages are. The Plaza building replaced the cottages in 1932, and was also partly built into a newly excavated cavern. |
totoro |
Sunday 1st of July 2012 09:06:03 PM |
| Underbank |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:27:48 PM |
| The chimney on the left is marked "CO OP". For many years this building was a Co-Operative department store. More recently a clothing shop. |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:25:48 PM |
| The River Mersey (it starts just off picture to the top, where the rivers Goyt and Tame meet) |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:23:55 PM |
| Lancashire Hill bridge over railway- the bridge is now filled in and a motorway runs along most of the rail bed. This line was the CLC line from Manchester to the left to Woodley and Derby on the right. |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:22:43 PM |
The railway line was not built over by the motorway - however it was closed when construction of the motorway caused a collapse within the tunnel that runs through the sandstone to the side of the motorway cutting. It is only in the past 20 years or so that the viaduct that ran alongside the motorway from the tunnel entrance at Lancashire Hill, across the Tesco car park and over Tiviot Way and behind the Thomas Storey site now "Spark Industrial Estate) was demolished. |
xfield |
Thursday 23rd of May 2013 10:43:25 PM |
| This part of the road is still called Heaton Lane |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:20:01 PM |
| Princes Street - formerly this was known as Heaton Lane |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:19:27 PM |
| Union Bridge - a pedestrian bridge with Union Road on each bank- Lancashire was on the left, Cheshire on the right (before Greater Manchester). |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:15:31 PM |
| Wellington Bridge, carrying Wellington Road, with Manchester off to the left. |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:14:14 PM |
| Fire station |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:13:38 PM |
| Tram depot |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:11:38 PM |
User Comment Contributions
VFine photograph:I used to walk down steps from A6 to archway below every schoolday to catch 2nd bus(of3) home from Stockport Grammar School(1966-70) to Cheadle thence to get home near top of School's Hill |
roger freeman |
Sunday 2nd of December 2012 08:04:23 PM |
This area has changed a lot- the area between Mersey Bridge and Wellington Bridge is now Mersey Square, the river has been covered over beyond Mersey Bridge to form a shopping centre and the building below and to the right of the river are now a bus station. |
totoro |
Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:13:17 PM |