Viaduct Street
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Viaduct Street by Gerald England as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Viaduct Street
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 8 Dec 2008
Stockport's famous railway viaduct was built in 1839/40 by the engineer George Watson Buck under the architect John Lowe. In 1887-89 it was widened to four tracks, 27 arches, 111 feet high and 1786 feet long, comprising 11 million bricks. The road under this arch is Daw Bank.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.407332
Longitude
-2.164524