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The smallest of the tunnel shelters could accommodate 2,000 people and the largest 3,850. It was subsequently expanded to take up to 6,500 people. [1] [2] In 1948, the shelters were sealed off from the public. [3] The largest of the Stockport Air Raid Shelters have been open to the public since 1996 as part of the town's museum service. [1]
(Stockport was not bombed until 11 October 1940.) The smallest of the tunnel shelters could accommodate 2,000 people and the largest 3,850 (subsequently expanded to take up to 6,500 people.) The largest of the Stockport Air Raid Shelters are open to the public as part of the town's museum service. [17]
The building that became St. Thomas' Hospital was originally a workhouse known as the Stockport Union Workhouse [1] (though some records list the name as Shaw Heath Workhouse). [2] The building was designed by Henry Bowman [3] and opened on Christmas Day in 1841. It was intended to house 690 inmates. [4]
Bunker Name: Survival Condos Location: Kansas, U.S. Estimated Cost: Units start at $3 million. Larry Hall, an engineer-turned-property-developer, transformed decommissioned missile silos into ...
This is a list of people from Stockport, in North West England. The demonym of Stockport is Stopfordian, however, this list may include people from Bredbury, Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme, Marple, Reddish and Romiley, all from the wider Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname.
The workers had stumbled on three underground bunkers left from World War II, archaeologists said. The hidden bunkers were made of reinforced concrete about 3 feet thick and still completely intact.
Woodford is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. [1] It lies in the historic county of Cheshire, 5.2 miles (8.4 km) south of Stockport, 5.7 miles (9.2 km) north-west of Macclesfield and 10.7 miles (17.2 km) south-east of Manchester. Woodford was a hamlet in the parish of Prestbury throughout the ...
Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery.. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...