Stockport wartime

Stockport Air Raid Shelters, carved beneath the town’s sandstone cliffs, opened in 1939 as a sprawling network to shield 6,500 civilians from WWII bombs. Dug into Chestergate’s red rock, these damp tunnels—over a mile long—housed families during the Blitz, their echoes bouncing off concrete walls. Closed post-war, they reopened as a museum in 1996, preserving […]