Dipping into Stockport’s Past
£6.00
An A4 48 page, compilation of 15 illustrated stories about Stockport and it’s history, which first appeared in the online newspaper, Nub News.
Stories range from the Mealhouse Brow tragedy to memorials,inns to infirmaries,dowager house to workhouse and much more.
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