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c1830s painting with the Muslin mill in Castle Yard in the background
St Mary's in 1850
Early 20th Century view along Chestergate from Mersey Square with what is now the Chestergate pub on the left and taxi rank on the right
Prince's Street from Mersey Square in the early 20th Century, the pub on the left is now Debenhams
Petty Carr Green 1890 with Rock row going up to St. Petersgate
Lower Hillgate in the early 20th Century
Stockport Market in 1896 - The extra bay of the glass indoor market on the left and the Cheese hall on the right
Painting of the church around 1780
Late 1800s Great Underbank with the old White Lion on the left
The River Mersey in the foreground with the Fire Station and it's hose drying tower in the background - now Mersey square
Taken from the top of the Old Rectory steps in the late 1960s
The Egerton on St. Petersgate in the late 1800s
Market traders in the early Twentieth Century
Stockport Sunday School walks 1913 outside the Town Hall
St Peter's Church Walks c1920s
Looking from Petersgate onto the busy Market in the early 1900s
WW2 bomb damage in Gorsey Bank Park - the Pavillion stands undamaged on the right.
VE Day celebration at the Greek St./Wellington Rd. South Junction
Davenport Theatre 1950s/60s
Vernon Park showing lilly pond and aviary
Mersey Way road c1950 with Woolworths on the left
Mersey Way road bridge c1960
Wellington Road in the 1950s
Looking down Dodge Hill in the 1970s. Tiviot Dale Methodist Church is visible at the bottom of the hill, before it's demolition.
Tiviot Dale Station c1962. Hanover Chapel stands in the background
Mersey Square 1954, taken from the Plaza. The Fire Station is on the right.
Merseyway Precinct late 1960s/70s. Note the famous escalators and good old Woolworths.
Andrew Square 1960s. Bus shelter with Pendlebury Hall in the background. Asda is now on the far left.
Merseyway c 1970. The front of the new precinct opened in 1967
Merseyway Precinct c 1970
Merseyway 1970s looking towards Park Mills with C&A and the sculpture
Inside the Produce Hall bustling with customers in 1996
Millgate c1975 - The Market Hall is behind you
Market Hall 1975 with police outside
ASDA building work c1985
The Market Place still bustling with customers in 1999
Cheshires Parade 1939 at the start of World War II
Bridge Street Brow around the early 1900s. Boots is on the right hand corner
Heaton Lane Tram Depot c1965 - taken from the Fire Station
Quayles at the Bee Hive, Underbank c1970s

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Detailed painting of the Market Place church in colour

St Mary's in 1850

Builiding work starting over the river

Mersey Bridge 1895

Impressive stone chapel with four large columns at the front

Mount Tabor (opposite the Art Gallery now)

A tram and lots of people in Edwardian clothing

Bridge Street c1910s

c1920s crowds fill the Market in front of the Cheese Hall

Market place c1920s

Aerial black & white photograph showing rows of smoky terraced houses and the power station behind

Portwood c1930s

Cranes tower over the long skeleton of arches and supports

Building Mersey Way in the 1930s

Old buses drive around the large Mersey Square

Mersey Square 1954

Colour postcard showing the escalator, Bridge restaurant and cooling tower in the background

Merseyway 1960s/70s

Black & white mock timber frontage

The old Pack Horse pub on Churchgate

Black & white photograph taken from the other side of an empty A6!

The Davenport Theatre

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