Showing posts with label Stockport (Greater Manchester). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stockport (Greater Manchester). Show all posts
20 July 2019

Former Little Theatre, Stockport, Manchester (UK)

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Near Saint Peter's Square, Stockport: "STOCKPORT GARRICK SOCIETY The country's oldest 'Little Theatre' was ...

Elizabeth Raffald in Stockport, Manchester (UK)

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In Suffragette Square in Stockport there is a series of flat wooden benches which remember several prominent women. This one is dedicated ...
19 July 2019

The Frogs of Stockport, Manchester (UK)

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I could hardly believe it when I arrived in Stockport: there were frogs all over! Giant ones! An odd feeling came over me when I thought ba...
5 May 2017

Paul Morley: Nothing (2000)

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In a way, particularly at the beginning of this book, which is non-fiction, it could be said that much of it deals with the writer and mu...
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17 December 2014

Rowena Edlin-White: Kate Douglas Wiggin and Bramall Hall (2007)

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I had intended to tie in a blog post about Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 –1923)  with a visit to Bramall Hall, Stockport, Cheshire, but unfo...
3 March 2014

Strawberry Studios, Stockport, Greater Manchester

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Strawberry Studios, Waterloo Road, Stockport. 'STRAWBERRY RECORDING STUDIOS 1968 TO 1993 Association with the band 10cc ...
18 July 2013

Samuel Bamford in Stockport

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The above sculpture of the poet Samuel Bamford is on a BHS wall in central Stockport. It was unveiled in 1978 and is part of a much larg...
20 May 2013

Elizabeth Raffald in Manchester and Stockport

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Elizabeth Raffald (née Whitaker) was born in Doncaster in 1733 and worked at Arley Hall, Cheshire, where she became housekeeper. She met...
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