Trips 2024 - 2025
The Society's trips began this season with an outing to Stockport Staircase House.
We visited Staircase House in Stockport Town centre on a grey and characterless day which seemed to match the front of the building which is fairly nondescript. The interior, though, is most interesting. Judith Wilshaw’s husband Eddie acted as our tour guide as he was the Project Officer for the renovation of the house so has extensive knowledge about it.
It is an excellent example of great commitment and enthusiastic determination by Stockport Council and others to preserve and restore an old building of historical importance that has been awarded Grade 2* listed building status. Unusually for such an old building, there is an almost continuous record of its evolution over time.
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MLHS to AVRO
This small museum is dedicated to the aircraft industry which, until early 2010s, constructed and maintained mainly military aircraft on site. Anyone from the area will probably remember the airshows which took place each summer.
AVRO was a British Airplane manufacturer started by Alliot Verdon Roe in Manchester. Around the walls is a timeline detailing all the planes developed by AVRO starting with the first plane in 1909 through acquisition by Crossley Motors, being sold to Armstrong Siddeley (later Hawker Siddeley) and finally to aircraft built by British Aerospace later BAE ending in 2010. AVRO moved to Woodford in 1924 and saw the construction of many different aircraft, too many to name, but chiefly amongst those many would recognise; the Lancaster bomber, developed at short notice in 1943 by the designer Roy Chadwick by lengthening the wings of his Manchester bomber and the inclusion of 4 Rolls Royce Merlin Engines. Sections of each aircraft would be moved through the local streets and constructed at Woodford. By 1945 5-6 planes could be produced per day.
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