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[edit] Closures

  • Broadstone Mill, 1959 (Holden p168)(Ashmore p84) (Arrowsmith (1997) p 258)
  • Greg's Victoria, running 1975 (Ashmore p84)
  • Greg's Albert, running 1975 (Ashmore p84), closed in 1982 (Cronin p79)
  • Atlas wire, 1927 (Ashmore p86)
  • Spur Mill, 1972 (Ashmore p85)(cronin p79)
  • Vale printworks, closed by 1975 (Ashmore p85)
  • Vauxhall/Craven's, closed by 1975 (Ashmore p86) closed in 1970 (Arrowsmith (1997) p 259) (Cronin p85)
  • Houldsworth, cotton production ceased by 1958 (Cronin p77)

"Reddish estate in £6m deal", Manchester Evening News, M.E.N media, 2007-04-10. Retrieved on 2007-05-06. 


http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/news/s/221/221798_united_front_for_reddish_railway_battle.html http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/news/s/221/221593_railroaded__station_closure_sparks_fury.html

Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 29 Jan 1996, column 675

[edit] Schools

It has been decided to to close Fir Tree Primary, North Reddish Infants and North Reddish Junior Schools [1] and there is a proposal to build a new school at Harcourt Street <<os ref>>. The site was formerly a clay pit for a brickworks, and later a landfill site. Much of the landfill took place before modern controls, and there is local concern about the suitability of the site [1] [2] [3].

[edit] Stuff waiting for a home

http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/news/s/231/231997_new_school_to_be_built_on_former_dump_site.html

Reddish is home to two golf clubs, Reddish Vale Golf Club by Alister MacKenzie and Houldsworth Golf Club.

http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/news/s/209/209924_high_hopes_for_cotton_quarter.html http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/news/s/215/215404_wills_new_tv_role_is_first_class.html Engine House at heritage blog, (was in Stockport Times in July)

http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/news/s/224/224853_residents_fight_for_village_green_at_public_inquiry_.html

Butterworth describes South Reddish (i.e. the part nearest Stockport) as containing "some elegant mansions".Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many

[edit] Memorials

  • War memorial, Willow Grove Cemetery.
  • War memorial, Reddish Road.
  • War memorial within North Reddish School.
  • Memorial to Sir William Houldsworth in Houldsworth Square.

[edit] Manchester shopping

MC 4th biggest shopping centre. [1][2] BBC says "retail capital of the North West".[3] Top retail centre (esp for footballer's wives).[4]

State of the city.[5]

[edit] Overspill

First look: reliable sources online. Stockport has estates at "Bredbury, Bredbury Green, Hawk Green, Rose Hill, Bramhall, Cheadle and Heald Green" (to categorise Bramhall as an overspill estate would be daft); See also [1] [2] and [3]. Wilmslow [4]. Macclesfield. Longridge.

Online resources: http://www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk http://www.socialistworker.org.uk/art.php?id=12257 http://www.madmusingsof.me.uk/archives/lambeth_politics/ http://www.macclesfield.gov.uk/pdfs/da_balancing%20housing.doc http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/homesearch/latest/whereyoulive/s/74/74066_spotlight_on_partington.html
Wikipedia: Darnhill

[edit] Peterloo

6a[6]

6b[7]

6c[8]

6d [9]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Retail Footprint 2005. CACI web pages. CACI Limited. Retrieved on 2007-10-18.
  2. ^ Experian (28 September 2007). "Experian publishes the definitive 2007 retail ranking". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-10-12.
  3. ^ Life in Manchester - Shopping. bbc.co.uk. BBC (15 December 04). Retrieved on 2007-10-12.
  4. ^ Fearis, Beverley. "Shopping: Spend, spend, spend", Guardian Magazine Supplement, The Guardian, 29 September 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-12. "When it comes to shopping for fashion, Manchester is hard to beat. Rub shoulders with the Wags in the designer stores of Exchange Square and New Cathedral Street ..." 
  5. ^ Manchester Partnership; Manchester City Council; KPMG (September 2007). Manchester’s State of the City Report 2006/2007 (PDF). Retrieved on 2007-10-21.
  6. ^ Glen, Robert (1984). Urban workers in the early Industrial Revolution. London: Croom Helm, pp. 194–252. ISBN 0-7099-1103-3. 
  7. ^ Prentice, Archibald (1851). Historical sketches and personal recollections of Manchester intended to illustrate the progress of public opinion from 1792 to 1832, p. 160. 
  8. ^ Marlow, Joyce (1989). "The day of Peterloo". Manchester Region History Review 3 (1): pp. 3–7. 
  9. ^ Hunt, Tamara L (1991). "Morality and Monarchy in the Queen Caroline Affair". Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 23 (4): 697–722. “Outrage ... fired up across the country when the Prince Regent publicly thanked the Yeomanry for their prompt action ...”