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Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Manchester city centre, where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey. It is the largest town in the metropolitan borough of the same name.
Historically, most of the town was in Cheshire, but the area to the north of the Mersey was in Lancashire. Stockport in the 16th century was a small town entirely on the south bank of the Mersey, known for the cultivation of hemp and manufacture of rope. In the 18th century, the town had one of the first mechanised silk factories in the British Isles. However, Stockport's predominant industries of the 19th century were the cotton and allied industries. Stockport was also at the centre of the country's hatting industry, which by 1884 was exporting more than six million hats a year; the last hat works in Stockport closed in 1997.
Dominating the western approaches to the town is the Stockport Viaduct. Built in 1840, the viaduct's 27 brick arches carry the mainline railways from Manchester to Birmingham and London over the River Mersey. This structure featured as the background in many paintings by L. S. Lowry.
Stockport was recorded as "Stokeport" in 1170.[1][2] The currently accepted etymology is Old English port, a market place, with stoc, a hamlet (but more accurately a minor settlement within an estate); hence, a market place at a hamlet.[1][2] Older derivations include stock, a stockaded place or castle, with port, a wood, hence a castle in a wood.[3] The castle probably refers to Stockport Castle, a 12th-century motte-and-bailey first mentioned in 1173.[4]
Other derivations are based on early variants such as Stopford and Stockford. There is evidence that a ford across the Mersey existed at the foot of Bridge Street Brow. Stopford retains a use in the adjectival form, Stopfordian, for Stockport-related items, and pupils of Stockport Grammar School style themselves Stopfordians.[5] By contrast, former pupils of Stockport School are known as Old Stoconians. Stopfordian is used as the general term, or demonym used for people from Stockport, much as someone from London would be a Londoner.[6][7]
Stockport has never been a sea or river port as the Mersey is not navigable here; in the centre of Stockport the river has been culverted and the main shopping street, Merseyway, built above it.
The earliest evidence of human occupation in the wider area are microliths from the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic period (the Middle Stone Age, about 8000–3500 BC) and weapons and stone tools from the Neolithic period (the New Stone Age, 3500–2000 BC). Early Bronze Age (2000–1200 BC) remains include stone hammers, flint knives, palstaves (bronze axe heads), and funerary urns; all finds were chance discoveries, not the results of systematic searches of a known site. There is a gap in the age of finds between about 1200 BC and the start of the Roman period in about 70 AD, which may indicate depopulation, possibly due to a poorer climate.[8]
Despite a strong local tradition, there is little evidence of a Roman military station at Stockport.[9][10] It is assumed that roads from Cheadle to Ardotalia (Melandra) and Manchester to Buxton crossed close to the town centre. The preferred site is at a ford over the Mersey, known to be paved in the 18th century, but it has never been proved that this or any roads in the area are Roman. Hegginbotham reported (in 1892) the discovery of Roman mosaics at Castle Hill (around Stockport market) in the late 18th century, during the construction of a mill, but noted it was "founded on tradition only"; substantial stonework has never been dated by modern methods. However, Roman coins and pottery were probably found there during the 18th century. A cache of coins dating from 375–378 AD may have come from the banks of the Mersey at Daw Bank; these were possibly buried for safekeeping at the side of a road.[9]
Six coins from the reigns of the Anglo-Saxon English Kings Edmund (reigned 939–946) and Eadred (reigned 946–955) were found during ploughing at Reddish Green in 1789.[1][11] There are contrasting views about the significance of this; Arrowsmith takes this as evidence for the existence of a settlement at that time, but Morris states the find could be "an isolated incident". The small cache is the only Anglo-Saxon find in the area.[1] However, the etymology Stoc-port suggests inhabitation during this period.[12]
No part of Stockport appears in the Domesday Book of 1086. The area north of the Mersey was part of the hundred of Salford, which was poorly surveyed. The area south of the Mersey was part of the Hamestan hundred. Cheadle, Bramhall, Bredbury, and Romiley are mentioned, but these all lay just outside the town limits. The survey includes valuations of the Salford hundred as a whole and Cheadle for the times of Edward the Confessor, just before the Norman invasion of 1066, and the time of the survey. The reduction in value is taken as evidence of destruction by William the Conqueror's men in the campaigns generally known as the Harrying of the North. The omission of Stockport was once taken as evidence that destruction was so complete that a survey was not needed.[13]
Arrowsmith argues from the etymology that Stockport may have still been a market place associated with a larger estate, and so would not be surveyed separately. The Anglo-Saxon landholders in the area were dispossessed and the land divided amongst the new Norman rulers. The first borough charter was granted in about 1220 and was the only basis for local government for six hundred years.
A castle held by Geoffrey de Costentin is recorded as a rebel stronghold against Henry II in 1173–1174 when his sons revolted. There is an incorrect local tradition that Geoffrey was the king's son, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, who was one of the rebels.[14] Dent gives the size of the castle as about 31 by 60 m (102 by 197 ft), and suggests it was similar in pattern to those at Pontefract and Launceston. The castle was probably ruinous by the middle of the 16th century, and in 1642 it was agreed to demolish it. Castle Hill, possibly the motte, was levelled in 1775 to make space for Warren's mill, see below.[15][16] Nearby walls, once thought to be either part of the castle or of the town walls, are now thought to be revetments to protect the cliff face from erosion.[17]
The regicide John Bradshaw (1602–1659) was born at Wibersley, in the parish of Stockport, baptised in the parish church and attended Stockport Free School. A lawyer, he was appointed lord president of the high court of justice for the trial of King Charles I in 1649. Although he was dead by the time of the Restoration in 1660, his body was brought up from Westminster Abbey and hanged in its coffin at Tyburn.[18]
Stockport bridge has been documented as existing since at least 1282. During the English Civil War the town was supportive of Parliament and was garrisoned by local militias of around 3000 men commanded by Majors Mainwaring and Duckenfield. Prince Rupert advanced on the town on 25 May 1644, with 8-10,000 men and 50 guns, with a brief skirmish at the site of the bridge, in which Colonel Washington's Dragoons led the Royalist attack. Rupert continued his march via Manchester and Bolton to meet defeat at Marston Moor near York.[19][20] Stockport bridge was pulled down in 1745 and trenches were additionally dug in the fords to try to stop the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart as they marched through the town on the way to Derby. The vanguard was shot at by the town guard and a horse was killed.[19][21] The army also passed through Stockport on their retreat back from Derby to Scotland.[22][23]
One of the legends of the town is that of Cheshire farmer, Jonathan Thatcher, who, in a 1784 demonstration against taxation, avoided Pitt the Younger's saddle tax on horses by riding to market at Stockport on an ox.[24] The incident is also celebrated in 'The Glass Umbrella' in St Petersgate Gardens, one of the works on Stockport's Arts Trail.[25]
Anon, 1769.[26]
Hatmaking was established in north Cheshire and south-east Lancashire by the 16th century. From the 17th century Stockport became a centre for the hatting industry and later the silk industry. Stockport expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, helped particularly by the growth of the cotton manufacturing industries. However, economic growth took its toll, and 19th century philosopher Friedrich Engels wrote in 1844 that Stockport was "renowned as one of the duskiest, smokiest holes" in the whole of the industrial area.[27]
Stockport was one of the prototype textile towns.[28] In the early 18th century, England was not capable of producing silk of sufficient quality to be used as the warp in woven fabrics. Suitable thread had to be imported from Italy, where it was spun on water-powered machinery. In about 1717 John Lombe travelled to Italy and copied the design of the machinery. On his return he obtained a patent on the design, and went into production in Derby. When Lombe tried to renew his patent in 1732, silk spinners from towns including Manchester, Macclesfield, Leek, and Stockport successfully petitioned parliament to not renew the patent. Lombe was paid off, and in 1732 Stockport's first silk mill (the first water-powered textile mill in the north-west of England) was opened on a bend in the Mersey. Further mills were opened on local brooks.
Silk weaving expanded until in 1769 two thousand people were employed in the industry. By 1772 the boom had turned to bust, possibly due to cheaper foreign imports; by the late 1770s trade had recovered.[26] The cycle of boom and bust would continue throughout the textile era.
The combination of a good water power site (described by Rodgers as "by far the finest of any site within the lowland" [of the Manchester region][28]) and a workforce used to textile factory work meant Stockport was well placed to take advantage of the phenomenal expansion in cotton processing in the late 18th century. Warren's mill in the market place was the first. Power came from an undershot water wheel in a deep pit, fed by a tunnel from the River Goyt. The positioning on high ground, unusual for a water powered mill, contributed to an early demise, but the concept of moving water around in tunnels proved successful, and several tunnels were driven under the town from the Goyt to power mills.[29] In 1796, James Harrisson drove a wide cut from the Tame which fed several mills in the Park, Portwood.[30] Other water-powered mills were built on the Mersey.
The town was connected to the national canal network by the 5 miles (8.0 km) of the Stockport branch of the Ashton Canal opened in 1797 which continued in use until the 1930s. Much of it is now filled in, but there is an active campaign to re-open it for leisure uses.
In the early 19th century, the number of hatters in the area began to increase, and a reputation for quality work was created. The London firm of Miller Christy bought out a local firm in 1826, a move described by Arrowsmith as a "watershed". By the latter part of the century hatting had changed from a manual to a mechanised process, and was one of Stockport's primary employers; the area, with nearby Denton, was the leading national centre. Support industries, such as blockmaking, trimmings, and leatherware, became established. Stockport Armoury was completed in 1862.[31]
The First World War cut off overseas markets, which established local industries and eroded Stockport's eminence. Even so, in 1932 more than 3000 people worked in the hatting industry, making it the third biggest employer after textiles and engineering. The depression of the 1930s and changes in fashion greatly reduced the demand for hats, and the demand that existed was met by cheaper wool products made elsewhere, for example the Luton area.
In 1966, the largest of the region's remaining felt hat manufacturers, Battersby & Co, T & W Lees, J. Moores & Sons, and Joseph Wilson & Sons, merged with Christy & Co to form Associated British Hat Manufacturers, leaving Christy's and Wilson's (at Denton) as the last two factories in production. The Wilson's factory closed in 1980, followed by the Christy's factory in 1997, bringing to an end over 400 years of hatting in the area.[32][33][34] The industry is commemorated by the UK's only dedicated hatting museum, Hat Works.[35][36]
Since the start of the 20th century Stockport has moved away from being a town dependent on cotton and its allied industries to one with a varied base. It makes the most of its varied heritage attractions, including a national museum of hatting, a unique system of Second World War air raid tunnel shelters in the town centre, and a late medieval merchants' house on the 700-year-old Market Place. In 1967, the Stockport air disaster occurred, when a British Midland Airways C-4 Argonaut aeroplane crashed in the Hopes Carr area of the town, resulting in 72 deaths among the passengers and crew.
On 23 November 1981, an F1/T2 tornado formed over Cheadle Hulme and subsequently passed over Stockport town centre, causing some damage to the town centre and surrounding areas.[37]
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council has embarked on an ambitious regeneration scheme, known as Future Stockport. The plan is to bring more than 3000 residents into the centre of the town, and revitalise its residential property and retail markets in a similar fashion to the nearby city of Manchester. Many ex-industrial areas around the town's core will be brought back into productive use as mixed-use residential and commercial developments. Property development company FreshStart Living has been involved in redeveloping a former mill building in the town centre, St Thomas Place. The company plan to transform the mill into 51 residential apartments as part of the regeneration of Stockport.[38]
Stockport was a township mostly within the Macclesfield Hundred within the historic county of Cheshire with a small part on the north side of the Mersey in Lancashire.[39] The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 made Stockport a municipal borough divided into six wards with a council consisting of 14 aldermen and 42 councillors. Under the terms of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, Stockport Poor Law Union was established on 3 February 1837 and was responsible for an area covering 16 parishes with a total population of 68,906. Stockport Union built a workhouse at Shaw Heath in 1841.[40] In 1888, its status was raised to County Borough, becoming the County Borough of Stockport. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, Stockport amalgamated with neighbouring districts to form the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.
In 1986 Greater Manchester County Council was abolished and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council assumed many of its functions, effectively becoming a unitary authority.
In 2011, Stockport bid for city status as part of the 2012 Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations,[41] but was unsuccessful.
There are four parliamentary constituencies in the Stockport Metropolitan Borough: Stockport, Cheadle, Hazel Grove, and Denton and Reddish. Stockport has been represented by the Labour MP Nav Mishra since 2019. Mary Robinson has been the Conservative MP for Cheadle since 2015;[42] and William Wragg has been the Conservative MP for Hazel Grove since 2015.[43] The constituency of Denton and Reddish bridges Stockport and Tameside; the current member is Andrew Gwynne for the Labour Party.[44]
There are 21 electoral wards in Stockport, each with 3 councillors, giving a total of 63 councillors with one-third elected three years out of four.
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At 53°24′30″N 2°8′58″W / 53.40833°N 2.14944°W (53.408°, −2.149°) Stockport is on elevated ground, 6.1 miles (9.8 km) south-east of Manchester city centre, at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Tame, creating the River Mersey. It shares a common boundary with the City of Manchester.
Stockport stands on Permian sandstones and red Triassic sandstones and mudstones, mantled by thick deposits of till and pockets of sand and gravel deposited by glaciers at the end of the last glacial period, some 15,000 years ago.[49] To the extreme east is the Red Rock fault, and the older rocks from the Upper Carboniferous period surface. An outcrop of Coal Measures extends southwards through Tameside and into Hazel Grove.[49] To the east, the sandstones and shales of Millstone Grit are present as outcrops on the upland moors of Dark Peak and South Pennines, and, to the south, are the limestones of the White Peak.
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At the 2001 UK census, Stockport had a population of 136,082. The 2001 population density was 11,937 per mi² (4,613 per km2), with a 100 to 94.0 female-to-male ratio.[52] Of those over 16 years old, 32% were single (never married) and 50.2% married.[53] Stockport's 58,687 households included 33.1% one-person, 33.7% married couples living together, 9.7% were co-habiting couples, and 10.4% single parents with their children, these figures were similar to those of Stockport Metropolitan Borough and England.[54] Of those aged 16–74, 29.2% had no academic qualifications, significantly higher than that of 25.7% in all of Stockport Metropolitan Borough but similar to the whole of England average at 28.9%.[51][55]
Although suburbs such as Woodford, Bramhall and Hazel Grove rank amongst the wealthiest areas of the United Kingdom[citation needed] and 45% of the borough is green space, districts such as Edgeley, Adswood, Shaw Heath and Brinnington suffer from widespread poverty and post-industrial decay.[citation needed] In the north-west of the borough are the prosperous areas of Heaton Moor and Heaton Mersey, which together with Heaton Chapel and Heaton Norris comprise the so-called Four Heatons.
|Population growth in Stockport since 1901
|Source: County Borough 1901–1971;[56] Urban Subdivision 1981–2001[57][58][59][60]
Stockport's principal commercial district is the town centre, with branches of most high-street stores to be found in the Merseyway Shopping Centre or The Peel Centre. Redrock Stockport has a ten-screen cinema, bars and several restaurants. Stockport is six miles (9.7 km) from Manchester, making it convenient for commuters and shoppers. In 2008, the council's £500 million plans to redevelop the town centre were cancelled after construction company Lend Lease Corporation pulled out of the project, blaming the credit crunch. More recently work has begun with talks of a metrolink to Manchester, redevelopment of the old bus station amongst many old buildings becoming luxury apartments. Also lots of roadworks to deal with the intended growth from the development.
Stockport Town Hall, designed by Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas, has a ballroom described by John Betjeman as "magnificent" which contains the largest Wurlitzer theatre organ in Britain. The war memorial and art gallery are on Greek Street, opposite the town hall. Underbank Hall is a Grade II* listed late 16th-century timber framed building which was the townhouse of the Arderne family from Bredbury who occupied it until 1823.[61] Since 1824, it has been used as a bank and its main banking hall lies behind the 16th-century structure and dates from 1915.[17]
Stockport Viaduct is 111 feet (34 m) high, and carries four railway tracks over the River Mersey on the line to Manchester Piccadilly. The viaduct built of 11,000,000 bricks, a major feat of Victorian engineering, was completed in 21 months at a cost of £70,000.[62] The structure is Grade II* listed.[63]
Beside the M60 motorway is the Stockport Pyramid, a distinctive structure designed by Christopher Denny from Michael Hyde and Associates. It has a steel frame covered with mostly blue glass and clear glass paneling at the apex and was intended to be the signature building for a much larger development planned in 1987. Construction began in the early 1990s and it was completed in 1992 but an economic downturn caused the project to be abandoned as the developers went into administration. The building lay empty until 1995 when The Co-operative Bank repossessed it and opened it as a call centre.
Vernon Park, to the east towards Bredbury, was opened on 20 September 1858 on the anniversary of the Battle of Alma in the Crimean War. It was named after Lord Vernon who presented the land to the town.
St Elisabeth's Church, Reddish and the model village are parts a mill community designed in the main by Alfred Waterhouse for workers of Houldsworth Mill, which was once the largest cotton mill in the world.[citation needed]
The Manchester orbital M60 motorway and the A6, which connects Carlisle with Luton, cross at Stockport.
Stockport railway station is a principal station on the Manchester spur of the West Coast Main Line. Stockport is connected with London Euston by Avanti West Coast, with services departing every twenty minutes. It also provides inter-city services to Sheffield, Liverpool, Norwich, Birmingham, Bristol and several other cities.
Stockport Tiviot Dale station also served the town centre between 1865 and 1967, lying on routes from Manchester Central to Liverpool, Derby and Sheffield. Most of the station site now lies under the M60 motorway.[64]
Manchester Airport, the busiest in the UK outside London,[65] is five miles (8.0 km) south-west of the town, which lies under the airport's flightpath. Historically known as Ringway airport, the area formed part of the Stockport Metropolitan Borough until it transferred to Manchester.
Stockport bus station, which serves as a terminus for many services across the borough, is one of the largest and busiest bus stations in Greater Manchester. Frequent services to Manchester city centre are provided by Stagecoach Manchester's high frequency 192 service, which also connects the town centre with Stepping Hill Hospital and Hazel Grove. Other services to Manchester include routes 42, 197 and 203. The free Metroshuttle bus service links the bus and rail stations with other parts of Stockport, including the town centre and the Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco Extra supermarkets.
Stockport College is based in the town centre. Also Stockport is home to Stockport Grammar School, established in 1487, one of the oldest in the north-west of England.
St Mary's Church, the town's oldest place of worship, was the centre of a large ecclesiastical parish covering Bramhall, Bredbury, Brinnington, Disley, Dukinfield, Hyde, Marple, Norbury, Offerton, Romiley, Stockport Etchells, Torkington and Werneth.[39] Chapels and churches were built in those townships and the parish today covers a much smaller area. Parts of the church, situated by the market place, date to the early 14th century and it houses the Stockport Heritage centre, run by volunteers on market days. The church is Grade I listed.[66] In the town are the Grade II listed Roman Catholic St Joseph's Church and Our Lady and the Apostles Church.[67][68]
Stockport's museums include the Hat Works in Wellington Mill, a former hat factory,[69] and Stockport Air Raid Shelters in the tunnels dug in the Second World War to protect inhabitants in air raids.[70] Staircase House, a Grade II* listed medieval townhouse,[71][17] houses the Stockport Story Museum.[72]
The Plaza is a Grade II* listed Super Cinema and Variety Theatre built in 1932.[73] It is the last venue of its kind operating in its original format, making it of international significance.[74]
In 2018, a new leisure complex opened called Redrock Stockport providing facilities including a cinema, restaurants, bars and a gym.[75] In the same year, it was named by Building Design magazine as the "worst new building" in its annual Carbuncle Cup competition.[76]
Strawberry Studios at No. 3 Waterloo Road was a recording studio from 1968 to 1993, partly owned and used extensively by 10cc, as well as many other major artists including Joy Division, Neil Sedaka, Barclay James Harvest, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Paul McCartney and St Winifred's School Choir.
Local writer Simon Stephens' play Port is set in and around Stockport. The play has been performed at the National Theatre, London.
The painter Alan Lowndes featured Stockport scenes in his work.
The indie pop band Blossoms are from Stockport.[77]
The indie rock band Derailer are also from Stockport[78]
Paul Eastham, the front man of folk rock band COAST, was born in Stockport in July 1981 at Stepping Hill Hospital.[79]
Claire Foy, an actor who is best known for her main role in The Crown as Queen Elizabeth II, was born in Stockport in April 1984 at Stepping Hill Hospital
The BBC Radio comedy programme "Stockport, so good they named it once" was set in the town. Two series were recorded.[80]
The singer Barb Jungr released an album entitled "Stockport to Memphis" in 2012 inspired by her memories of 1960s Stockport.[81]
The 18th century composer and organist of the Manchester Collegiate Church (later Manchester Cathedral), John Wainwright, composed the hymn tune, "Yorkshire (Stockport)", to the Christmas hymn, "Christians Awake, Salute the Happy Morn", by John Byrom.
Stockport has three athletics clubs: Manchester Harriers & AC, Stockport Harriers & AC and DASH Athletics Club. Manchester Harriers train at William Scholes' Playing Fields in Gatley and they organise highly regarded schools cross country races throughout the winter. Stockport Harriers are based at Woodbank Park in Offerton; they have several international middle-distance and endurance athletes including Andy Nixon. DASH Athletics Club are the newest club in Stockport based at both Hazel Grove Recreation Centre and the Manchester Regional Arena at Sportcity in Manchester. In 2006, DASH AC Coach Geoff Barratt was UK Athletics' Development Coach of the Year and, in 2007, the club won England Athletics North West Junior Club and North West Overall Club of the Year accolades.
Stockport County F.C. play in the National League (division). The club was formed in 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers, changing its name to Stockport County in 1890 to reflect the town's status as a county borough. It joined the Football League in 1900. Its most successful season was the 1996–97 season, when it reached the Football League Cup semi-finals and won promotion to Division One.
Stockport's second team, Stockport Town F.C., play in the NWCFL Division One and are based in Woodley.[82]
Stockport Sports F.C. (formerly Woodley Sports) was another non-League football club that played in the town. In their final season, the club competed in the NWCFL Premier Division before dissolving in 2015, due to a breach of numerous league rules.[83][84]
Stockport Lacrosse Club which plays at Stockport Cricket Club, Cale Green, was founded in 1876 and its first match was played as Shaw Heath Villa. It is reputed to be the oldest club in the world and has men's, ladies' and junior teams. There are lacrosse clubs at Norbury (Hazel Grove) Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Mersey Guild (now merged with Manchester Waconians) [85] and Mellor. Stockport Grammar School Old Boys (Old Stopfordians) merged with Norbury in 2013. Edgeley Park hosted the 1978 Lacrosse World Cup.[citation needed]
When the rugby football schism occurred in 1895, Stockport, founded in 1895, became a founder member of the Northern Rugby Football Union (now Rugby Football League). Stockport played for eight seasons from the 1895–96 season to the end of 1902–1903 season, the latter two seasons played at Edgeley Park, the club finished 17th of 22 in the initial combined league, then 5th, 11th, 11th, 9th, 12th, 6th, in the 14-club Lancashire Senior Competition, and then 18th of 18 in Division 2 of the recombined league, after which it withdrew from the Northern Rugby Football Union.
Sale Sharks Rugby Union Club played at Edgeley Park from 2002 to 2012, when they moved to the AJ Bell Stadium in Barton-upon-Irwell.
Stockport Metro Swimming Club, based at Grand Central Pools, is the most successful British swimming club over the last three Olympic Games.[citation needed] Stockport Metro swimmers have claimed 50% of British swimming's medal haul.[citation needed] At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Graeme Smith won bronze in the 1500m freestyle,[86] and, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Steve Parry won bronze in the 200m butterfly.[87] Most recently, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Keri-Anne Payne and Cassie Patten won silver and bronze, respectively, in the 10 km open water swim.[88]
Stockport is the birthplace of former World No.1 tennis player Fred Perry; winner of 8 Grand Slam singles titles, 2 Pro Slams singles titles, 2 doubles titles and 4 mixed-double titles. He was the first person to complete a Career Grand Slam and also won the Davis Cup on four consecutive occasions (1933-1936). Liam Broady and his sister Naomi Broady, the tennis professionals, were born in Stockport, attending Tithe Barn and then Priestnall School.
The Stockport area is covered by several different cadet units. A unit of Sea Cadet Corps based near the Pear Mill Industrial Estate and several squadrons of the Air Training Corps, based on the A6 opposite St George's Church and others on Reddish Road in South Reddish. Stockport also has a youth council, Stockport Youth Partnership, which is based in Grand Central.
Stockport is twinned with:[89]
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Stockport.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night to present Oprah Winfrey with its Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her charity work. James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith will also receive honorary Oscars at the private ceremony.
Not everyone is thrilled with the selection of Winfrey to receive the Oscar, though. Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein argues that Winfrey hasn't done enough to deserve it, calls the decision "a boneheaded move" and goes on to suggest that race played a role in the academy's decision to honor her: "It is a way of guaranteeing that some people of color will be taking home Academy Awards, even if the honors aren't actually presented on Oscar night," he wrote.
While there's no question that African-American representation at the actual Oscars tends to be underwhelming, to say the least, it's hard to believe that has anything to do with this selection. We have to agree with Film Academy President Tom Sherak, who says the Hersholt Award recognizes an individual who "exemplifies giving back to the community, the world, society in an extraordinary way," and has come to Winfrey's defense, calling her "one of the most philanthropic performers in the world."
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Top Ten Reasons Why Compulsory Homework Doesn't Get Abolished In SchoolI always wanted it to get abolished, but it won't happen! There are days where there are like 20 homeworks crammed in a week! You want it abolished? Here are the reasons. What is your top pick?
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You're either willfully ignorant or you flunk.
Most of the kids that flunk do better in the future in their jobs, people that are willfully ignorant remain at the same job level most of the time. Really depends though, one needs a bright mind. - 4Noobs
The American government are the idiots... They build schools to brainwash people to people into robots instead of smart,free-thinking,open-mind, and free people. They are robot slaves to the government in societies. We learn useless information in school and we haven't everything in life like how to survive and how to adapt new societies... My parents are homeschooled but they never been to school and they learn how to behave and run the business like a boss without going to school. They are free thinking and smart people. They care the customers! - InfernoTopTenners
If we didn't care about the consequence because we fight for what is best for the students and their health, we could not be fooled by teachers easily. You need good student debates, also!
A few days ago, my French teacher gave my class 14 questions about Thanksgiving to answer in French using complete sentences, the last question being a paragraph, as it asked us if we had any funny stories about the holiday. Nothing to do with the unit. The very day we had taken a cumulative test. They were just questions about a holiday half of us didn't celebrate. It took me a solid hour and it was the epitome of useless busywork. THIS kind of homework, needs to be abolished. I got nothing from it, it didn't reinforce what I'd learned in class, it had no reason for existing besides like "I have to assign homework because I have to." - keycha1n
It would be worth the risk if you get the students unite. You can push the authorities to revise their system. Remember: NEVER BACK DOWN
One time I yelled at my science teacher in 7th grade because she was being a jerk to us and I nearly got in trouble. But then after sci period was over everyone looked at me as a hero and rebel. Some kids said they saluted me. - TwilightKitsune
We need to stop the dictator and overthrow them so school can have freedom to think and kids can think and be smart. - InfernoTopTenners
Seriously we need to stand up and take charge, not turn into snivelling cowards because some teacher started yelling/screaming...
I'm the teachers favorite and I hate homework a lot. - Ihateschool
And they side with the teachers. They suck because they are too selfish to care about what is for the best of our education system, more specifically homework.
I don't side with the teachers except for the fact that they will get fired but I hate homework a lot - Ihateschool
Homework stresses kids everyday after 7 hours of non-learning and they stop doing because of too much work. It causes high stress level and causes brain damage. - InfernoTopTenners
They don't care about the inhuman homework situation. They cause the disunity.
More homework means becoming burnt out, therefore procrastinating and rebelling more.
At least he's dead now but now we need to suffer it wow destroy homework then if u don't want to be like slaves
Curse this guy for creating homework! He officially invented homework as a punishment to his students. And homework IS a punishment to us all!
If you don't know, Roberto Nevilis devised the concept of homework, which is dreaded by many students including me.
In my fifth grade, I remember I solved multiple compulsory English homeworks and you know what happened? It didn't got abolished. Why? I dunno, maybe my teacher never cared? - Delgia2k
Therefore, homework is ineffective for certain students. They learn more hands on, by research or others.
That's sad... School don't want us to be smart and free thinking people. They want us to fear the government and treated as robot slaves. - InfernoTopTenners
We have been expected to conform with their methods and standards. I'm a non-conformist for a reason.
Because those educators are dictators! - SamuiNeko
It isn't. Let the students choose which learning style is best for them and they will succeed their own way.
Just give them the resources and let them sort it out by themselves.
Those idiots in our class is the reason why we can't do independent studying... - SamuiNeko
It isn't good to destroy the essence of diversity and the different skills of the students in requiring a biased requirement.
Wow, what a troll item.
It IS a good thing. You may not like it when your in school, but it's preparing you for the real world. In the workforce, you don't get paid for "trying your hardest" or whatever excuse you want to impose on not doing homework. You get paid for doing the job and doing it correctly. Otherwise, you get fired becuase you didn't do the work. Enough with this "effort trumps actually succeeding" mindset.
You get paid for doing what is optimal for your boss, whether it's the task that your boss told you or it's your idea. This is how it works in employment.
Can you please give me homework to feed my homework addiction? - imacg4
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And there are multiple students brainwashed into the "good effects" of homework wherein there are other methods for you to learn and organize.
If the students are coordinated and there is no infighting, you could fight for the cause without internal challenge.
Now that I read this list again, I feel like we can't be too idealistic when it comes to education.


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"Southern Sumatra is a unique market because the market keeps growing while national cement demand declines," said Semen Baturaja President Director, Rahmad Pribadi.
As of June, Semen Baturaja saw its sales in Jambi and Bengkulu expand by 54 and 29 per cent, respectively.
However, the national market was oversupplied by 39.7Mta in the same period with total production capacity in Indonesia at 103.8Mta. Moreover, in 1H17 cement demand fell by 1.3 per cent YoY to 29.4Mt.
"We are lucky because our factories are located in areas that have strong economic fundamentals [...] Thus, all of our cement production can be easily absorbed in southern Sumatra," Mr Pribadi said.
In the 2H17, Semen Baturaja will rely on the development of the Bakauheni-Terbanggi Besar toll-road project, construction linked to the Asian Games in 2018 and a light rail transit (LRT) project in Palembang to boost sales.
The state-owned cement producer aims to achieve approximately 2Mt in sales by the end of this year, representing a 23 per cent YoY rise. For 2017 the company's sales target is IDR1.83tn (US$137.3m), a 20 per cent hike YoY.
As of June, the company stated that it controlled 53.46 per cent market share in South Sumatra, 18 per cent in Lampung, 8.79 per cent in Jambi and 6.39 per cent in Bengkulu. However, its net profits declined to INR60.52bn, from IDR102.5bn in the corresponding period in 2016.
Indonesia's second-largest cement producer, PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa reported a MoM sales increase of 6-7 per cent in July.
"We forecast that the growth in domestic cement consumption will be around five per cent. However, there will be pressure, especially for Indocement, in terms of pricing. Our cement price has dropped because of an oversupply and stiff competition," Indocement's President Director, Christian Kartawijaya, said.
Higher prices of coal and increased sales of heavy machinery were seen as triggers additional to massive infrastructure development to boost the company's growth in 2H17. There is a huge correlation between the sales of heavy machinery and coal. If their [heavy machinery and coal producers] sales rise, those of cement companies will follow," Mr Kartawijaya said.


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Just one benefit of renting a stall is basically that you have been in the midst of everything. When your company is an outlet people have to venture inside to check out whatever you have to give. With a kiosk, it's entirely different. They're inside the aisles with the mall where customers wander. Because they walk around they are at what you will be offering as opposed to stores. Also the employees can speak to customers as they walk buy and then try to persuade them to buy what they're selling. Many people find it annoying however it is considered effective.
The advantages of a local store, however, are great. There's more room for inventory and folks have more options. These small portable booths usually only carry one sort of product and either customers want to buy or they don't. Stores are merely the contrary. These are selling much that if someone doesn't like one thing it's likely that good that they may find something else. In relation to saying if your are far better than the opposite it really is tough to tell. They both their very own teams of benefits and drawbacks in fact it is hard to tell which can be greater or fewer.
Food courts are successful because individuals that shop generally stop for food. Whenever they do not have to leave the mall for food then why do they really? There are plenty of different places to pick from that chances are people will like one or more ones. These are several reasons why the meals court works. Spending budget are not as large as a shop, though not no more than a kiosk, community . is perfect size just for this kind of company. There exists seating before the stores to ensure is not necessary for every individual restaurant. There's for anyone in a local mall whether it's a mall, toy shop, eateries or kiosks.
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How delightful that as I type the words 'Summer Crossing' that the sun is actually streaming through the windows and I can see a cloudless sky, it oddly feels like we've skipped spring and summer is actually already here, well in London anyway. Mind you knowing the British weather it will be a rain filled thunderstorm we are greeted to when we wake up tomorrow. I don't wish that by the way it's just a thought. Anyway enough of that back to the book.
Summer Crossing is the newly discovered first novel by Truman Capote. It's taken from four school notebooks and various additional notes in the New York Public Library's Truman Capote Collection. Various experts and editors have then put it all together, and the part that doesn't quite agree with me, edited it and added parts where it was illegible. Now this is a double edged sword. The negative is that you don't know if Capote ever wanted this story read and it partly isn't a story he totally read or finished (thankfully no one has tried to finish his final novel) and has been fiddled with. The positive is that we get to see more of his work and with this novel in particular we get to see what may have been the beginnings of Holly Golightly forming and Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Summer Crossing is a tale of first love. Grady's parents leave her in New York City alone (her sister Apple lives not to far away but is easy to elude and avoid) aged only eighteen. Grady is a bit of a minx. Having previously fallen for her fathers married friend she has actually tried to seduce him when his wife was pregnant whilst also being his wife's closest friend during her pregnancy. You can tell we have quite a feisty heroine pretty much from the start especially with the conversations with her mother as she stubbornly refuses to go away on a cruise with her or be paraded at any dances where she might meet a potential match.
As we find out Grady is already in love, though not with the sort of society boy her parents would wish for. Clyde is a Jewish Park Attendant who she is immediately attracted and devoted too. What follows is a hedonistic summer where drink and drugs are mixed with early freedom and desire proving a tragic, dangerous and dramatic mix. I loved Grady as a character I thought she was absolutely fantastic. I just didn't feel I knew any of the other characters really and in that sense you could tell it was an unfinished work and possibly the vague plotting of Holly Golightly.
I kind of wish I had read Breakfast at Tiffany's after this. Not because I was disappointed or didn't like Summer Crossing more that it just never quite matched up. I do get the feeling that if Capote had finished it he would have made it a lot longer, taking more time to introduce some of the characters and their personalities and back stories. I also would have liked to have known if the end is the ending he chose (quite possibly as it's quite shocking and dramatic) or if he had further plans for Grady who is a wonderful, wonderful character. I could have read a lot more about her and her adventures in the past and possibly beyond the book.
All in all I would say if you loved Breakfast at Tiffany's or are a die hard Capote fan then this is a book you wont want to miss out on. For everyone else it's a good read but on which you might find you drift away from as you turn the page.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Summer Crossing - Truman Capote
Posted by Savidge Reads at Monday, March 02, 2009
Labels: Review, Truman Capote
2 comments:
- Juxtabook said...
Never read any Capote which I must do something about someday. Like you I am not convinced by other hands finishing, a work so obviosuly not finalised by the author. I guess if it is clearly flagged that that has gone on, and better still comes with endnotes making clear what has happened and where in the text, then it's ok.
- 2 March 2009 at 11:19
- Unknown said...
Interesting review. I've read a few books like this, unfinished but edited and maybe completed, etc. Even when I was a big fan they were a bit disappointing.
I would like to check out Breakfast at Tiffany's. I just read In Cold Blood last year and loved it.
- 2 March 2009 at 22:12
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In the morning I sat next to a gentleman that seemed to have a quiet dignity about him.He pushed himself into the far end of the seat when the bumpy bus threw us together. He said sorry but I told him it wasn't his fault. He Seemed friendly and I asked him where he comes from.Aspen Hill.He said mischievously. I laughed and said no I mean where you were born. He said Russia.
I asked him about his wife and children and I immediately noticed sad tears beginning to form in his eyes.He replied no I'm not married.I have been here for 40 years waiting for her to change her mind and join me in America. He said she didn't want to come for one reason or other and he refused to give up on her.He didn't want to date outside his nationality. Because he would have to teach the new person how to cook and how to behave around him.
I pondered on the kind of devotion this man has for the love of his youth..How many people keep a candle burning for the teenage love when they go abroad. I thought to myself this man must be a prince among men.Living a lonely sad life waiting for someone. I asked why after he made enough why he didn't go back to join her or bring her
her .He said oh because everyone and everything changed.Well there is your answer I told him.Everything changes in a blink of an eye.Things change over night .over months.You cannot expect to leave a door open and not think another person will pass through.You cannot leave your home thinking it will be the same after even 5 years.Y
ou cannot leave your village home or city home and expect it to be the sam when you go back.Affections get replaced temporarily and then before one knows it the arrangements become permanent. In the diaspora we all live on Hope Street.I hope he /She will still love me when I go back.I hope my land/plot will still be there when I go back.In the meantime we too change.We live with ourselves and develop selfish habits that build walls around us.
Which walls don't allow sunshine to come in to brighten our days.We don't let in laughter and we rush from point A to point B.Yet we expect others not to change.I am thinking this guy left before social media etc changed the world. I feel sorry for him but I wonder .He too might feel sorry for me because we seem to be in the same boat.My friends children asked her the other day.
Mummy are you coming home or are you waiting to be old over there like the people you take care of?And that's true of most of us.You take care I f people but don't realize that you too are getting old.This man got me thinking.Something has to change so I don't end up with memories of love gone forever.


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Other common foot disorders and their management are described in Chapter 2.
The majority of patients will be asymptomatic and ischaemia will be diagnosed on screening examination. Patients with absent foot pulses should have their pressure index measured to confirm ischaemia and to provide a baseline, so that subsequent deterioration can be detected before the patient presents with irreversible lesions.
Podiatrists should always ascertain their patient's vascular status before they cut the toe nails or remove callus, since any injury to the neuroischaemic foot can result in ulceration.
All diabetic patients with evidence of peripheral vascular disease may benefit from antiplatelet agents: 75 mg aspirin daily, or if this cannot be tolerated, clopidogrel 75 mg daily.
Diabetic patients with peripheral vascular disease should also be given statin therapy.
The Heart Protection Study has shown that simvastatin reduced the rate of major vascular events in a wide range of high-risk patients including those with peripheral arterial disease or diabetes.
Patients who are above 55 years and have peripheral vascular disease should also benefit from an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor to prevent further vascular episodes (as indicated by the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE) and microHOPE study).
If symptoms do develop in the foot with ischaemia, there are three main clinical presentations:
• Intermittent claudication
• Severe chronic ischaemia with or without rest pain
• Acute ischaemia.
The classical site of claudication is the calf, although it may occur in the thigh and buttocks in aortoiliac disease. Claudication is less common in diabetic patients compared with non-diabetic patients because of peripheral neuropathy and the very distal site of atherosclerosis in the tibial vessels of the diabetic leg.
Patients with claudication should enter an exercise programme. All patients with claudication should be referred to the vascular surgeons but operative intervention is required in only 1% of diabetic patients per year. Pharmacological treatment with cilostazol can now be prescribed at a dosage of 100 mg twice daily.
Severe chronic ischaemia
With increasing severity of occlusive arterial disease, patients may develop a pink, painful pulseless foot (Fig. 3.9). The colour of the skin is a strikingly bright pink and the foot is cold.
The amount of pain will be related to the severity of the disease and the degree of peripheral neuropathy. When neuropathy is mild, patients will have classical rest pain, which is a constant pain, often worse at night and relieved by hanging the leg down outside the bed at night. It is important not to mistake the pink painful ischaemic foot for an infected cellulitic foot. The pink painful ischaemic foot is usually cool and the infected cellulitic foot is usually hot. If the leg is elevated the pinkness of ischaemia will fade while erythema of cellulitis will remain.
The pink painful ischaemic foot is an indication of severe arterial disease and urgent vascular investigations will be necessary with a view to vascular intervention. The pressure index will nearly always be less than 0.5, although medial calcification may give an erroneously high value. It is wise to proceed to further investigations including transcutaneous oxygen tension and toe pressure measurements. A level below 30 mmHg confirms severe ischaemia in both tests. Pain control is important. (For further discussion of these investigations, vascular intervention and pain control in the foot with severe ischaemia, see Chapter 4.)
Vascular intervention may not always be possible. If it is possible to control pain, then a trial of conservative treatment may be attempted instead of immediately performing a major amputation.
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(Sports Network) – The Boston Celtics open a four-game road trip tonight, as
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Iron manager Mark Robins was disappointed with the performance which saw his side suffer a 2-1 reverse to Swindon Town.Goalless at the interval, the hosts took a two-goal advantage before Jordan Clarke gave Scunthorpe hope with twenty minutes left to play. Gary McSheffrey hit the post with a free kick late on, but couldn't find the equaliser in the dying minutes.
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"They had a spell towards the end of the first half, and we conceded two poor goals in the second half. We then had a task to get back in it and I felt we could if we made better decisions. They were difficult conditions and I don't think either team coped with them brilliantly, but they controlled the ball better than we did at times.
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Clarke netted to halve Swindon's two-goal lead with a little over 15 minutes plus stoppage time remaining; heading in his first competitive goal for the club.
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