![]() ![]() where on earth did they all go? I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in old and new Stockport. Looking over the photo, we can see that in those days, Brinksway and neighbouring Chestergate were crammed with cotton mills and numerous rows of streets of hundreds of terraced houses that have all since been swept away to make way for the M60 motorway and the Pyramid and you get to thinking what on earth happened to all the families and people that lived in those houses. On the right of the picture are the now long gone row of cottages (122 to 132) perched precariously on top of the sixty feet high cliffs down which, in mysterious circumstances, I plunged screaming into the deep, dark, swirling waters of the River Mersey as a six year old boy in July, 1953, before being dragged from the river unconscious and given artificial respiration and brought coughing and spluttering back to life by two very brave men from the cottages (Bill Howard and Jack Morris), who then dragged me inch by inch back up the dangerous cliffs to the safety of Jack's cottage at number 122. I've been trying to find something like this for years. ![]() Every photo and caption is excellent, but of special interest to me is the large, vintage, almost full page photo on page 61 of the Ring Mills and River Mersey at Brinksway. ![]() This is a wonderful book and worth every penny, especially to someone like me, who was born and raised in Stockport (at 1, Eva Road, Cheadle Heath, in April, 1947). ![]()
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