Where are we?
I notice that most of the Blogg views are in the USA. How is this? Is Stockport in the USA? Well, it seems to be; with a little work with Google there are at least two Stockports there, Stockport Ohio and Stockport New York. So if you are reading this we are Minuteman Press, near Manchester, England, North Europe (in case there is a Stockport near Manchester in the USA). Other than the occasional riot (topical comment) Stockport is quite interesting, not least the weather than has none of the predictability of a continental or tropical climate. Today is wet; tomorrow could be sunny and hot (I haven't checked the weather forecast, though), the next thing you know we have a drought etc. Stockport is sort of straddling the Victorian railway line and has the iconic brick viaduct that uses millions and millions of bricks from the days when the citizens were really oppressed and worked for a pittance. There is big river running through it not that one can't see it for the most part because it was covered and had a shopping mall (sorry, an Americanism) built over it. I read someone was suggesting digging it up again. I'm old enough to remember before it was paved over.. not that it was the good old days, more like the grey old days of post war depression whilst we paid the Americans back for all the money they lent us to defeat the Germans (sorry, the Nazis). Meanwhile, we are Minuteman Press, Stockport, printers. There are about two of us in the Manchester area. There were three, another in Chorlton, but it closed a few months back. Due to the way Google works, though, their Google optimisation means they continue to come high in Google rankings for printing searches in Manchester. I would love to ask Sanjay how they did it but I haven't heard from him since they closed. He classified himself as Manchester which was dead cheeky, mind you he was dead opposite the Manchester cemetery, so had a good trade in funeral printing. We are about one mile from Stockport crematoria so perhaps I could improve my stall in that area.
Meanwhile Stockport, tends to be overshadowed by Manchester up the road (no, I don't know David Beckham; does he even work there any more everyone; I thought he emigrated to the USA?). Manchester had the dubious privilege of being smashed by the IRA a few years back and hasn't looked back since. So Stockport limps along, it has an iconic pyramid office block; inhabited (at least the sign says so) by the CoOp bank, a splendid Rochdale invention (north of Manchester). A newly refurbished super cinema from the 1930s (Wikipedia puts in 'citation needed' here). Several museums, a hat museum. I just can't excited by the idea of a hat museum, there is a fantastic science and technology musuem celebrating the good old days of British industry, but that's in Manchester. Lots of hills, none of the cycle friendly Cambridge flatlands. There is an expensively refurbished Victorian market. It even has quite a few shops in it. I even met some tourists trying to see it, wasn't open for business. There is the really old Parish Church that the Rev Roger seems to have make his lives work to raise the millions needed to replace it, stone by stone. People complain about the railway station, guess it's a ploy to try and get some money spent on it. It seems OK to me and is on the main line north and south with easy access to London, Manchester and Birmingham (not necessarily in that order). Oh! Yes, the motorway too, it squeezes between two of the viaduct pillars. The busy airport (I say 'busy' to emphasize that it is a decent size) is down the road and interestingly owned by the local authorities; I guess they prove my theory wrong: that nationalisation doesn't work, they seem to make a decent job of that. They have a splendid museum too with a complete but non flying Concorde and various other examples of British aviation technology. Which reminds me, there is Styal Woods under the airports flight path, a National Trust establishment (couldn't think of the proper word there) with a working water powered mill (the good old days again with child labour). Its getting late; I'll stop for now.
I notice that most of the Blogg views are in the USA. How is this? Is Stockport in the USA? Well, it seems to be; with a little work with Google there are at least two Stockports there, Stockport Ohio and Stockport New York. So if you are reading this we are Minuteman Press, near Manchester, England, North Europe (in case there is a Stockport near Manchester in the USA). Other than the occasional riot (topical comment) Stockport is quite interesting, not least the weather than has none of the predictability of a continental or tropical climate. Today is wet; tomorrow could be sunny and hot (I haven't checked the weather forecast, though), the next thing you know we have a drought etc. Stockport is sort of straddling the Victorian railway line and has the iconic brick viaduct that uses millions and millions of bricks from the days when the citizens were really oppressed and worked for a pittance. There is big river running through it not that one can't see it for the most part because it was covered and had a shopping mall (sorry, an Americanism) built over it. I read someone was suggesting digging it up again. I'm old enough to remember before it was paved over.. not that it was the good old days, more like the grey old days of post war depression whilst we paid the Americans back for all the money they lent us to defeat the Germans (sorry, the Nazis). Meanwhile, we are Minuteman Press, Stockport, printers. There are about two of us in the Manchester area. There were three, another in Chorlton, but it closed a few months back. Due to the way Google works, though, their Google optimisation means they continue to come high in Google rankings for printing searches in Manchester. I would love to ask Sanjay how they did it but I haven't heard from him since they closed. He classified himself as Manchester which was dead cheeky, mind you he was dead opposite the Manchester cemetery, so had a good trade in funeral printing. We are about one mile from Stockport crematoria so perhaps I could improve my stall in that area.
Meanwhile Stockport, tends to be overshadowed by Manchester up the road (no, I don't know David Beckham; does he even work there any more everyone; I thought he emigrated to the USA?). Manchester had the dubious privilege of being smashed by the IRA a few years back and hasn't looked back since. So Stockport limps along, it has an iconic pyramid office block; inhabited (at least the sign says so) by the CoOp bank, a splendid Rochdale invention (north of Manchester). A newly refurbished super cinema from the 1930s (Wikipedia puts in 'citation needed' here). Several museums, a hat museum. I just can't excited by the idea of a hat museum, there is a fantastic science and technology musuem celebrating the good old days of British industry, but that's in Manchester. Lots of hills, none of the cycle friendly Cambridge flatlands. There is an expensively refurbished Victorian market. It even has quite a few shops in it. I even met some tourists trying to see it, wasn't open for business. There is the really old Parish Church that the Rev Roger seems to have make his lives work to raise the millions needed to replace it, stone by stone. People complain about the railway station, guess it's a ploy to try and get some money spent on it. It seems OK to me and is on the main line north and south with easy access to London, Manchester and Birmingham (not necessarily in that order). Oh! Yes, the motorway too, it squeezes between two of the viaduct pillars. The busy airport (I say 'busy' to emphasize that it is a decent size) is down the road and interestingly owned by the local authorities; I guess they prove my theory wrong: that nationalisation doesn't work, they seem to make a decent job of that. They have a splendid museum too with a complete but non flying Concorde and various other examples of British aviation technology. Which reminds me, there is Styal Woods under the airports flight path, a National Trust establishment (couldn't think of the proper word there) with a working water powered mill (the good old days again with child labour). Its getting late; I'll stop for now.
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