Stalybridge : Town Hall Portico

Image: © Ken Bagnall Taken: 22 Aug 2009

Under the terms of the Public Health Acts 1873 and 1875 Stalybridge Corporation, like other municipal boroughs governed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, was designated as the authority governing the urban sanitary district. The borough, both on the Lancashire and Cheshire sides of the river, was placed wholly within the administrative county of Cheshire in 1889, under the Local Government Act 1888, and Cheshire was adopted as the postal county for the entire town. The town is now part of the Stockport postcode area. On 1 April 1936 Stalybridge was enlarged by gaining part of the civil parish of Matley, which had previously been part of Tintwistle Rural District. Stalybridge was twinned, in 1955, with Armentières, in France. In 1974 the area and assets of the Municipal Borough were combined with those of eight other districts, to form the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside. Stalybridge is currently represented by nine of the 57 Tameside councillors. These seats are spread over three wards: Stalybridge North; Stalybridge South and Dukinfield–Stalybridge. In 2011, Stalybridge had four Labour Party five Conservative Party councillors. Since 1998 the nine Stalybridge councillors have held meetings on a bimonthly basis, as Stalybridge District Assembly.

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