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Stockport is the birthplace of tennis player, Fred Perry the last Briton to win the Men's Singles titles at Wimbledon and the US Open ( in 1936 ), making him the last British male to win a Grand Slam title.
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* Stockport Lacrosse Club is founded at Cale Green Cricket Club Davenport, Greater Manchester where they still play to this day.
Helen Atkinson-Wood ( born 14 March 1955 ) is an English actress and comedian born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Cheshire.
Stockport Creek is a tributary of the Hudson and is formed at the junction of Kinderhook Creek and Claverack Creek.
Bollington is from the A523 road tha runs from Hazel Grove, Stockport though Macclesfield to Leek in Staffordshire.
There is a half hourly bus service run by Arriva North West that connects with the station, and an hourly service run by Bakers that runs from Macclesfield through Bollington to Poynton and Stockport.
It is located on the very edge of the Peak District, in the Goyt Valley, very close to the county boundary with Derbyshire at New Mills, and south of Stockport, Greater Manchester.
The modern accepted start of the River Mersey is at the confluence of the Tame and Goyt, in central Stockport, downstream.
: Mottram is situated twelve miles from Manchester and seven for Stockport, on a high eminence one mile to the west of the Mersey, from which the river ground begins to rise ; half the way being so steep as to make it difficult to access.
The line has its main core which was expanded into a complex system of branches and divergences serving also the major towns and cities of Northampton, Coventry, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Macclesfield, Stockport, Manchester, Runcorn, and Liverpool ; there is also a link to Edinburgh, but this is not the direct route between London and Edinburgh.
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Upon winning a 2 – 0 game over Stockport County on 24 January 2004, McCormick set a new club record of seven consecutive clean sheets, leading him to be voted the most promising player of the 2003 – 04 season by Plymouth Argyle fans.
Vocally, the support from Stockport fans has often been cited by managers and players as inspirational and a huge boost to the team during play, with their influence likened to having a twelfth player on the field, and Stockport supporters often receive praise from other players & managers, both at home and away, for their loyal and vocal support.
* Fred Smith ( full back ) ( 1887 – 1957 ), English football player with Stockport County, Derby County, Macclesfield and Southampton in the 1900s and 1910s
* Frederick Smith ( footballer ), English football player at outside right with Stockport County, Darlington, Exeter City and Gillingham in the 1930s
Following Turner's departure, former Stockport player Jim Gannon took over as manager and oversaw a remarkable recovery which saw County retain their league status in a nail-biting finish to the season.
He started and finished his career as a player in Ireland, but made most of his professional appearances in the English Football League at Stockport County, where supporters elected him as a member of the Hall of Fame.
As a committed Stockport fan, and already a legend at the club for his ten years as a player, he was loved by many County supporters.
Full-back Ron Staniforth and utility player Tommy Cavanagh followed him across the Pennines from Stockport County, whilst inside forward Jimmy Watson came down from Motherwell to pep up the attack.
After retiring as a player, Pearson moved into coaching, serving as coach of Stockport County in 1985 – 86 and manager of Northwich Victoria during the first half of 1986 – 87.
Having played for Oldham Athletic as an amateur and Stockport County as a guest player during the Second World War, Compton turned professional at Old Trafford in 1944 and was in the United team that won the 1948 FA Cup.
Nigel Harrison ( born 24 April 1951, Stockport, Cheshire, England ) is an English musician, and best known as the bass player of the rock band Blondie.
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Brian Naylor, an amateur driver from Stockport, financed his mechanic Fred Wilkinson to build a number of sports cars that were competitive against second-level national fields but were not competitive on the international stage.
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Stockport was also at the centre of the country's hatting industry which by 1884 was exporting more than six million hats a year ; the last hat works in Stockport closed in 1997.
Stockport Metro Swimming Club, based at Grand Central Pools, is the most successful British swimming club, through the last three Olympic Games.
There is also a vast amount of youth basketball teams, and currently the Stockport Senior mens league team are in D3 of the EBL league after their promotion earlier last season from Division 4.
In County won the Third Division North, gaining 60 points and 23 wins, towards the ending of this season Stockport had a ten game unbeaten run that included seven victories, prior to a last day title decider against Lincoln City in which more than 27, 000 fans watched.
According to the last Football Fans Census in 2003, Burnley, Manchester City and Stoke City are cited as Stockport County fans ' biggest rivals.
By the end of March 1949 he at last left the troubled Bluebirds to join Stockport County, also a Third Division North club, whom he transformed from a mid-table side into promotion challengers in late 1951 – 52.
On April 26, 2008, Grazioli played his last ever home game for Barnet, as a substitute against Stockport County, in which he received a standing ovation from the fans in appreciation of his prolific goal scoring which took the Bees into the Football League.
Don's last climbing expedition was made with a friend, Bernard Skeen, from Stockport in 1985, only a few weeks before Don's untimely death.
This version also sports an additional verse, not present in the earlier one and it was recorded in March 1980 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, making it one of the last Joy Division studio recordings.
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