Stockport

By a flight of steps leading from Little Underbank to Stockport Market

Macclesfield Canal, near High Lane, Stockport.

Macclesfield Canal, near High Lane, Stockport.

Macclesfield Canal, near High Lane, Stockport.

This building took its name from Sir Ralph Pendlebury who was a local benefactor. It opened in 1882 as an orphanage but later became Stockport Technical School. It is now in use as a care/ nursing home for the elderly.

Portwood, Stockport, just before its confluence with the River Tame to form the River Mersey.

The birth of the River Mersey in the middle of Stockport. It's a lot clearer now than when I was a boy. It was polluted with industrial waste, clods of foam floated by on the surface and it stank!

These two rivers join in the middle of Stockport to form the Mersey. The River Tame is seen here emerging from beneath the M60 motorway.

Obscured in this view, the River Tame emerges from beneath the M60 motorway to join the River Goyt, forming the River Mersey.

Memorial to animals who died in various conflicts. Woodbank Memorial Park, Stockport. Wojtek was 'adopted' as a cub by Polish soldiers in Iran during World War 2. He stayed with them throughout battles in Europe, including Monte Cassino, where he helped to carry artillery shells. He got into numerous amusing scrapes, ending up with the Poles in Scotland where he eventually died in retirement in Edinburgh Zoo. You can read his amazing story in 'Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero' by Aileen Orr.

Memorial to animals killed in various wars, Woodbank Memorial Park, Stockport.

Former cotton mill seen from Vernon Park, Stockport.

Vernon Park, Stockport. It was pleasing to see an angler and a kingfisher near this spot- evidence that the river is no longer polluted.

Underbank, Stockport.

Underbank, Stockport.