EPW019110 ENGLAND (1927). Wellington Bridge and Mersey Bridge, Stockport, 1927

Talbot Sunbeam Darracq on the roof, although the merged companies were known as Sunbeam Talbot Darracq, or STD Motors

Before the shopping center was built it was a road (Merseyway)regarded at the time as quite an engineering feat. I lived in Stockport in the 1940's and remember being fascinated by the river under the road.

Built in 1932- in this photo still the old cottages

The site of the Plaza is to the left of the pin location, where the cottages are. The Plaza building replaced the cottages in 1932, and was also partly built into a newly excavated cavern.

The railway line was not built over by the motorway - however it was closed when construction of the motorway caused a collapse within the tunnel that runs through the sandstone to the side of the motorway cutting. It is only in the past 20 years or so that the viaduct that ran alongside the motorway from the tunnel entrance at Lancashire Hill, across the Tesco car park and over Tiviot Way and behind the Thomas Storey site now "Spark Industrial Estate) was demolished.