![]() ![]() ![]() Lowry often visited the Stockport War Memorial Gallery on Greek Street especially during the annual exhibition of paintings and sculpture. This structure featured as the background in many paintings by LS Lowry. Built in 1840, the viaduct's 27 brick arches over the River Mersey carry the mainline railways from Manchester to Birmingham and London. The town's hatting heritage is preserved at 'Hat Works – the Museum of Hatting'.ĭominating the western approaches to the town is the Stockport Viaduct. In December 1997 the last Stockport hat works closed. Stockport was also at the centre of the country's hatting industry which by 1884 was exporting more than six million hats a year. However, Stockport's predominant industries of the 19th century were the cotton and allied industries. ![]() ![]() Stockport in the 16th century was a small town entirely on the south bank of the Mersey, and known for the cultivation of hemp and rope manufacture and in the 18th century the town had one of the first mechanised silk factories in the United Kingdom. Stockport has begun to spread over the river with some streets in Lancashire and in the centre of Stockport the Mersey, which forms the boundary, has been culverted and the main shopping street, Merseyway, built above it. It stands at the county's border with Lancashire on elevated ground on the River Mersey, where the rivers Goyt and Tame meet to become the infant River Mersey, 6 miles southeast of Manchester. Stockport is a large town in northern Cheshire. ![]()
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