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Address: Stockport Rd W, Bredbury, Stockport SK6 2BP
Open today · 10AM–5PMPhone: +44 7562 640864
Stockport
Stockport was bombed in 1940-41 but escaped serious damage. However during the 20th century the old industries of cotton and hat making in Stockport declined and eventually ceased. However engineering became an important industry.
The Merseyway Shopping Centre opened in 1965 but it was refurbished in 1995. However in 1967 the Stockport Air Disaster happened when a plane crashed killing 67 people.
One of the landmarks in Stockport, the Pyramid was built in 1992 and Hat Works the museum of hats opened in Stockport in 2000.
Stockport /ˈstɒkpɔːrt/ 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. The town is the largest settlement 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, and 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
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Pear mill is a huge Victorian cotton mill just outside Stockport Town Centre home to dozens of businesses and best of all two floors of vintage including furniture, clothing, homeware, art, books, toys and all manner of interesting objects
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Pear Mill offers a wide range of available office space for clients. Storage space can range in size and price, from a floor space of 3,437.4 sq.m (37,000 sq.ft) gross internal area for £60,000 per annum exclusive, plus VAT, To a 3rd Floor with a 2,926.4 sq.m (31,500 sq.ft) gross internal area at £42,500 per annum exclusive, plus VAT.
Pear Mill also has rental units available from 2000 square feet, all at a range of competitive prices. Prices range for different businesses and Pear Mill aims to meet all business requirements including a need for smaller office space.
The Emporium, packed with independent vintage shops is on the northern bank of the River Goyt in Bredbury, Stockport, and a minutes drive away from the M60 or on the main bus route from Greater Manchester, in England. Pear Mill stands proud with a huge chimney still perfectly intact representing the scale of Manchester’s and Stockport’s former cotton industry.
’Pear Mill has seven large floors and was once the workplace of hundreds of people spinning the finest Egyptian cotton. With over 70 individual, independent stalls the Vintage Emporium, Stockport is a fabulous place to while away a day shopping and marveling at the weird and wonderful vintage wares. It was also a great surprise to find that the prices have remained affordable and not massively inflated despite the convenience of having so many sellers under one roof.’
(The Fabulous Times)
‘If you are local then you really must head over here. And allow as much time as possible.’
(Image and quote above Old Fashioned Susie Blog)
‘Imagine, if you will, a world filled with everything you love. A world filled with decent quality vintage. You my friend, have imagined The Vintage Emporium at Pear mill in Stockport. I have never, in all my many years of vintage shipping seen this volume of great quality vintage in one place at the same time.’ (athriftymrs.com)
‘Shoppers can pick up vintage fashions from the last century - for both sexes, from dresses and heels to bow ties and leather boots - as well as home furnishings, handbags, luggage, kitchenalia, ornaments, records and toys.‘ (Manchester Evening News)
About Brereton
Brereton Coat of Arms
.THE BEAR'S HEAD
Newcastle Road South, Brereton, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1RS
In 2004, the Church introduced a Bear Festival to the Parish as a means of raising funds
for St Oswald's church. It proved popular with residents and with visitors, so now it is held
biennially in odd-numbered years. Local residents and organisations create displays on
the theme of 'Bears' - often with great ingenuity! There are prizes for both bear makers
and for the bear hunters. The Festival takes place for five weekends during July and
August. Many bear-themed events are held over the period to raise money for St Oswald's
The Bear Head
Jacobean former coaching inn offering original character,
stylish guestrooms and classic pub food.
THE BEAR'S HEAD
Newcastle Road South, Brereton, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1RS
Open today: 12pm to 11pm
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Apple and Blackcurrant pie with custard. |
Peroni beer.
Yum!
The Bear's Head in Brereton is a country pub and restaurant oozing rural charm and rustic character. The picturesque surroundings provide the perfect backdrop for savouring the hearty, seasonal pub-food on the menu, and the carefully nurtured cask ales and fine wines gracing the bar.
Built in 1625 and originally known as The Boars Head, this inn has been serving the community of Brereton for almost four hundred years. The Bear's Head was a popular posting house on the London to Liverpool turnpike, becoming so busy that in the 18th Century a new wing was built and a range of stables constructed on the opposite side of the road.
Enjoy a spot by the roaring log-fire or make the best of the British summertime by eating alfresco in the pretty beer garden.
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