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Wellington Road North, STOCKPORT, SK4 1HT

59 Wellington Road North is the former office building to the nearby LNWR Goods Warehouse. The office building was built by 1895 and it originally had a range of smaller buildings attached to the south side though these are no longer extant. See also http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1504652&resourceID=2 . For links to further information about the warehouse and photos, please see Image

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The A6 from Manchester into Stockport from the end of Belmont Way. The warehouse was originally the London & North Western Railway Company's Goods Warehouse Image It is Grade II listed and was built in 1877 for the London and North Western Railway Company in the ltalianate style. Red brick with stone dressings, blue brick plinth and banding, white brick cornice and lettering. The warehouse narrowly escaped destruction from a bomb in World War II, sustaining slight damage to NW corner of building. It was designed to enable the efficient storage and transfer of goods between rail and road, and retains a range of different hoist mechanisms which include a manual hoist, six hydraulic jiggers, and two electric-powered hoists, positioned over trap doors replicated down through the floors, which illustrate how the building operated. Today it is used as a storage depot.

Viewed from Bowerfold Lane bridge. The front of the warehouse is on Wellington Road North Image The former LNWR Goods Warehouse is Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1067164 It was built in 1877 for the London and North Western Railway Company in the ltalianate style. Red brick with stone dressings, blue brick plinth and banding, white brick cornice and lettering. The warehouse narrowly escaped destruction from a bomb in World War II, sustaining slight damage to NW corner of building. It was designed to enable the efficient storage and transfer of goods between rail and road, and retains a range of different hoist mechanisms which include a manual hoist, six hydraulic jiggers, and two electric-powered hoists, positioned over trap doors replicated down through the floors, which illustrate how the building operated. Today it is used as a storage depot.

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A plaque on the wall outside Christ Church Image has been provided by private donations raised by members of the Heaton Norris derelict Christ Church Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/400237673413540/ It reads: IN REMEMBRANCE OF PRIVATE VINCENT ROEBUCK BEVERLEY (AGED 27, KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY, 23812) PRIVATE LOUIS BAILEY (AGED 25, SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT, 204046) PRIVATE ARTHUR BROWN (AGED 36, ARMY SERVICE CORPS, S4/220504) PRIVATE RALPH FOWLES (AGED 48, CHESHIRE REGIMENT, 18116) 2ND CORPORAL ISAAC THOMPSON (AGED 37, ROYAL ENGINEERS, 286117) REMEMBERED IN THIS CHURCHYARD THEY SHALL BEVER BE FORGOTTEN

This is a hydraulic ram with associated pulleys to produce a multiplying effect and was used in this large warehouse to operate a hoist. This was water hydraulic (the original and where the word comes from - none of this modern oil hydraulic stuff).

Christ Church was built in 1846 in a developed Early English style. Following its gutting by fire in 1977, it was demolished except for the tower and spire – notable as a local landmark – and a short length of the north and south nave walls. The plan of the rest of the church has been preserved by the retention of the lowest courses of masonry. It was vested in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust in May 1979.