Stockport Collection

Stockport Viaduct circa 1850. Coloured lithograph issued by Bradshaw and Blacklock, the original publishers of Bradshaws railway guides Date: circa 1850

Balloon event, Charles Green, Stockport
Charles Green ballooning poster advertising his 75th ascent, from Stockport, under the patronage of Henry Hodgkinson, the Mayor, with a second ascent from Castle Yard, a band of music in attendance

Manchester - Stockport Road, Levenshulme Date: circa 1910s

Benja Fold, Bramhall, Lancashire
Benja Fold, Bramhall, Stockport, near Cheadle Hulme, Lancashire, England. Date: 1910s

Barlow Fold Road, Romiley, Stockport, Greater Manchester
Terraced cottages on Barlow Fold Road, Romiley, Stockport, Greater Manchester Date: circa 1907

Underbank, Stockport

Stockport County FC football team 1935. Back row: Robinson, Jones, Scott, McDonough, Jenkinson, Still, Titterington. Front row: Foulkes, Hill, McNaughton, Brennan, Tidman, Westgarth (Manager)

Edwardian view - men on Roman Bridge, Marple
The man in the centre of the groups George Potter, a friend and employee of Ernest Battersby who is on the right. The Roman Bridge is in fact medieval, just outside Marple

Drainage Grid
A Needham Stockport drainage grid. 19th century

Staff and Committee at Stepping Hill Union Infirmary, Stockp
The staff and management committee (each named at bottom) of the Stockport Union infirmary, now Stepping Hill Hospital. Date: circa 1905

Rag n Bone man Stockport slum yard
A Rag n Bone man pushes his barrow though a slum cummunal yard in Stockport, Cheshire, England. He is watched by small children. The property was demolished shortly afterwards Date: circa 1970

Slum communal yard, Stockport
Small children and mongrel dogs beneath the washing lines in the communal back yard of slum property in Stockport, Cheshire, England. The property was demolished shortly afterwards Date: circa 1970

Jonathan Thatcher riding cow to Stockport Market
Jonathan Thatcher rode his cow to Stockport Market on 27 November 1784 in defiance of Pitts Horse Tax. 1784

Boy in slum housing yard
Rear view of small fair-haired boy walking alone past dustbins and washing lines in the communal back yard of slum housing in Brinksway, Stockport, Cheshire, England

Stockport Wellington Road probably 1930s

Wellington Road, Stockport

Stockport Underbank early 1900s

Market Place, Stockport

St Peters Square, Stockport

Stockport St. Peter's Square Victorian period

Mersey Square, Stockport

Stockport Mersey Square early 1900s

Stockport Market Street early 1900s

Market Street, Stockport

Stockport Market Place early 1900s

Edgeley Road, Stockport

Lancashire Hill, Stockport

Stockport Lancashire Hill early 1900s

Stockport Edgeley Road early 1900s

Stockport Bramhall Lane early 1900s

Bramhall Lane, Stockport

Fire engine, Stockport, early 1900s

Stockport Fire Brigade Edwardian period

1840s Victorian Map of Cheshire

Silhouette of little girl at play, Brinksway, Stockport, Eng
A silhouette of a little girl playing beneath a street light in Brinksway, Stockport, Cheshire. This original negative is not in top condition Date: circa 1970

Short groom with tallest shire horse - 1
4ft 6 inch groom and shire horse, Captain, a Robinson Brewery, Stockport, drey. Captain was said to be the tallest shire at that time

Short groom with tallest shire horse - 2
4ft 6 inch groom and shire horse, Captain, a Robinson Brewery, Stockport, drey. Captain was said to be the tallest shire at that time. Date: circa 1969

Slum child
A small fair-haired dirty boy wipes away tears with his thumb as he looks at the camera. Brinksway, Stockport condemned housing. North of England slums Date: circa 1970

Strathclyde, Offerton Lane, Stockport - a Victorian residence photographed by one of the occupants and a true display of the interior of a Victorian house Date: circa 1900

Edwardian lady in garden identified as Edith Battersby at her home in Stockport. She was born in 1884 so would have been in her late teens at this time Date: 1902

Stockport Air Disaster - 4th June 1967
Stockport Air Disaster 4th June 1967, in which 72 passengers and crew died when the British Midlands Airways Canadair C4 Argonaut from Palma, Mallorca

Sir Ralph Pendlebury Orphanage, Stockport
A view of the orphanage in Stockport founded in 1882 through a legacy from local mill owner Sir Ralph Pendlebury

Stepping Hill Infirmary, Stockport
An aerial view of the Stepping Hill Infirmary, opened in 1901 as a hospital facility for the Stockport workhouse. Date: circa 1927

Dennis Vintage Fire Engine & Brigade, Stockport, Manchester, Lancashire, England. Showing the first turnout of the new fire engine 9th June 1927

Four well dressed Edwardian men named by the photographer - on the left is Ernest Battersby, the photographer, and their left is his brother James Johnson Battersby

Edwardian couple with baby
James Johnson Battersby, his wife Nancy and son James outside their house Dunluce, Stockport 1909. The pram is presumably a top-of-the-range for the period - note the umbrella holder! Date: 1909

Group of Edwardian men on garden steps in Stockport, comprising menbers of the Battersby hatmaking family and what are believed to be French business associates Date: circa 1911

Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport
Administration block of Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. The hospital was opened as Stepping Hill Infirmary by the Stockport Union in 1905 to improve on the medical facilities that existed at

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