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Bracadale Drive, STOCKPORT, SK3 8RS

Toilet block in Cale Green Park.

Near the centre of the square

Located in Cale Green Park, Resilience Frog represents Davenport and Cale Green Ward. Sponsored by Stephensons it is one of 17 frogs taking up residence in wards across Stockport Borough in addition to the 21 frogs across the town centre. as part of Stockport's Gigantic Leap Frog Art Trail.

Located in Cale Green Park, Resilience Frog represents Davenport and Cale Green Ward. Sponsored by Stephensons it is one of 17 frogs taking up residence in wards across Stockport Borough in addition to the 21 frogs across the town centre. as part of Stockport's Gigantic Leap Frog Art Trail.

Suburban station on line to Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly.

Early morning photograph of the bowling green and pitch of Stockport Cricket Club. The memorial column on the left lists the name of club members who lost their lives in the two world wars. The light mist obscures the view of Alderley Edge escarpment in the distance.

The bridge carrying the A5102 (Bramhall Lane) over the railway at Davenport Station.

View towards Stockport.

Davenport is a residential suburb on the outskirts of Stockport. It takes its name from its railway station, itself named after the Davenport family which for centuries lived at Bramhall Hall. When the railway came to the area in the 1850s in the shape of the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge line, there was no settlement here; it was just a remote corner of the Davenport family's estate. However, the Davenports had ideas of developing this part of their land as a residential suburb. The station was built at the point where the Stockport to Bramhall road crossed the railway; although the station was not actually built in time for the opening of the line in 1857, but the following year, 1858 after complaints from the Davenports that a station had been promised. It was named Davenport after its sponsors. Not long afterwards, however, the Davenports sold all their land, including what is now Davenport, much of it to a property company, and moved away from the area. A few large houses were constructed around the station in its early years, several of them to be occupied by moguls of the hatting and cotton-spinning industries for which Stockport is famous. The now-familiar station booking office is not an original feature but dates from the 1880s. A photo of the station circa 1910 is in the Manchester Archive's Flickr collection http://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/5258228605/ More information on the station and its environs can be found on the Davenport Station website. http://www.davenportstation.org.uk/