It passed down the family to Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester who sold his land in Reddish at the end of the 18th century, and in 1808 it was bought by Robert Hyde Greg and John Greg.

There were Hulmes in Reddish in the 13th century, and the land passed through the family until about 1700 when it was given to a charitable trust.

Six coins from the reigns of the Anglo-Saxon English Kings Edmund ( reigned 939 – 946 ) and Eadred ( reigned 946 – 955 ) were found during ploughing at Reddish Green in 1789.

The two main mediaeval houses were Reddish Hall at ( demolished 1780, but visible on maps dated 1840 ) and Hulme Hall at, later known as Broadstone, then Broadstone Hall ( demolished 1945 ).

The local tram services to Stockport, Reddish and Manchester terminated near Norbury Church and the Rising Sun pub until about 1950, when they were replaced by buses and the cobbles on the A6 were covered by tarmac.

In the Boundary Commission's provisional recommendations for parliamentary constituencies, which were published in 2005, the Reddish part of the constituency was to be re-patriated with the Stockport constituency.

Network Rail, in their Route Utilisation Strategy ( RUS ) for the North West, were proposing closure of Reddish South and Denton stations and withdrawal of the remaining passenger service.

Reddish is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England.

Reddish does not appear in the Domesday survey ; this is in common with most of the then southeast Lancashire area.

Until 1997 it also included the area of the former municipal borough of Dukinfield, most of which now forms part of the Denton and Reddish constituency.

The Brinnington area had previously been in the Denton & Reddish constituency from 1983 until 1997 before it was transferred into Stockport.

To the west of Brinnington is an area known as Reddish Vale, a country park.

Category: People from Reddish

Historically a part of Lancashire, Reddish grew and developed rapidly during the Industrial Revolution and still retains landmarks from that period, such as Houldsworth Mill, a former textile mill.

Folklore has it that the names Gorton and Reddish arose from a battle between Saxons and Danes.

Looking from Heaton Moor, through Heaton Chapel to Reddish

There was to have been a fifth branch, namely the Beat Bank Branch Canal ( itself a branch of Stockport Branch Canal ) from Reddish to Beat Bank in Denton, but this was abandoned before completion.

* David Carr ( 1933 – 1959 ) English, suspected first victim of AIDS in the West from Reddish, Manchester

Here he met his future wife, actress Ida Reddish from Nottingham, who at the time was using the stage name Thea Kronberg and had recently arrived from the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

With an electorate of 68, 000, located in eastern Greater Manchester, the constituency presently consists of the electoral wards of Audenshaw, Denton North East, Denton South, Denton West, and Dukinfield from the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, and Reddish North and Reddish South from the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport.

From 1983 to 1997 the constituency consisted of the electoral wards of Brinnington, Reddish North, and Reddish South, from the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport ; and Audenshaw, Denton North East, Denton South, and Denton West, from the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside.

It was recommended that the Denton and Reddish seat should remain unchanged with five wards from Tameside ( Denton North East, South and West ; Audenshaw and Dukinfield ) and two wards from Stockport ( Reddish North and Reddish South ), with slight readjustments to reflect the new ward boundaries introduced in 2004.

Parts of the track bed of the tramway to Denton Colliery can still be traced, both on modern maps and on the ground, as can traces of a canal, known as the Beat Bank Branch, intended to link local collieries to the Stockport branch of the Ashton Canal at Reddish, which was partially built and then abandoned.

The lead part of Menes is described in the dramatis personæ as " next male-heir to the crown " now worn by Seraphis, and was played by Samuel Reddish in a 1774 production by David Garrick at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

: 14 July – Landed Sheerness ; at Reddish ’ s Hotel, St James ’ Street.

Image: Reddish Egret-Great Egret-Long Key State Park. jpg | With Great Egret at Long Key State Park

83009 had previously been used at Longsight in Manchester to convert the 25 kV AC supply to 1500V DC to allow testing of the Manchester-Glossop-Hadfield units following the closure of Reddish Depot.

* July 17-The Manchester – Sheffield – Wath Woodhead Line, carrying electric-hauled freight traffic through the Pennines in England, is closed and all British Rail Class 76 locomotives used on it are stored at Guide Bridge and Reddish before being scrapped.

The main line of the Ashton Canal had been authorised by Act of Parliament in June 1792, and in March 1793 the Proprietors obtained a second Act, which authorised a branch to Stockport, a branch which would leave the Stockport branch at Reddish and run along the Tame Valley to Beat Bank, to serve some coal mines at Haughton Green, and a separate branch to Hollinwood.

Only a very short length of the canal was put in water at Reddish and this was known as the Beat Bank or Reddish Private Branch.

Reddish is recorded as Redich ( 1205, 1212 ), Redych, Radich ( 1226 ), Radish, Rediche ( 1262 ), Redditch ( 1381 ), Redwyche, Radishe and Reddishe ( 16th century ).

It seems to have had little effect by 1825, when Corry's description of Reddish, in full, was " The population of Reddish is but thin ".

The Stockport Branch Canal passed through Reddish and opened in 1797.

After Sir Robert Langley's death in 1561 the manor passed to his daughter Margaret, who married John Reddish.

The park was designated as a " Globally Important Bird Area " by the American Bird Conservancy in 1998 for providing an " important habitat for globally significant numbers of Brown Pelicans, Redheads ( 5 % of the world's population ), Least Terns ( 8 % of the North American population ), Piping Plovers ( 10 % of the world's population ), Reddish Egrets ( 7 % of the biogeographic population ) and Peregrine Falcons ( 7 % of the North American population ).

The site's rediscovery was made by Lynda Mallett, Stuart Reddish and John Wood.

St Elisabeth's Church, Reddish and the model village are parts a mill community designed in the main by Alfred Waterhouse for workers of Houldsworth Mill, which was once the largest cotton mill in the world.

Reddish Hall as drawn by James Croston ( Booker, p211 )

Robert Hyde Greg and John Greg, sons of Samuel Greg of Quarry Bank Mill, who owned about a third of Reddish by 1857, opened Albert Mills for cotton spinning in 1845.

The Reddish Spinning Company, partly owned by Houldsworth, opened in 1870.

Andrews Gas Engine Works was taken over in 1905 by Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham, the business was transferred to Grantham and the Reddish works closed some time during the great depression following WWI.

Broadstone Mills ceased production in 1959 ; Reddish Mills closed in 1958 with the loss of 350-400 jobs ; Spur Mill followed in 1972 ; and the long-lived Reddish Vale printworks closed by 1975 ; Albert Mill continued to trade as R. Greg and co under new ownership, but finally closed in 1982.

The Reddish Spinning Company's mill was taken over by Friedland who became the world's largest manufacture of doorbells ; an extension to the mill won several architectural awards.

But then he lost again, by decision to Willie Reddish, eleven days after his fight with Thompson.

Stockport is currently covered by four constituencies: Cheadle, Stockport, Hazel Grove and Denton and Reddish.

In May 2010, Hayes started a political blog for the website " Think Politics ", which also hosts blogs by former Liberal Democrat MP for Falmouth Camborne, Julia Goldsworthy, current Labour MP for Denton and Reddish, Andrew Gwynne, and Conservative candidate for Swansea West, René Kinzett.

" We'll Meet Again " is a 1939 song made famous by British singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by Ross Parker ( born Albert Rostron Parker, 16 August 1914 in Manchester ) & Hugh Charles ( born Charles Hugh Owen Ferry, 24 July 1907 in Reddish, Stockport, Cheshire ).