Stockport
About Stockport
Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England; it lies 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Manchester, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and 12 miles (19 km) north of Macclesfield. The rivers Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. It is the main settlement of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. At the 2021 census, the built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 117,935, and the metropolitan borough had a population of 294,773.
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You wouldn't have got on very well in Stockport in the early 20th century where anyone walking around without a hat would get stones thrown at them. Because it was a big hatting area.
from No Such Thing As A Flycycle, 2016-05-13 at 00:12:41 · read transcript
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Why am I phrasing this like a QI question? Because I reckon that you'll get it James. When was it dangerous? In Stockport, you used to be attacked if you weren't wearing a hat, because they had the hat industry, uh, was quite big there and they thought it was unpatriotic to the, to the town if you were actually attacked. By like verbally or imprint. People throw things at you.
No Such Thing As A 164ft Tall Gorilla-Whale, 2014-05-23 · listen
Why am I phrasing this like a Q&A question? Because I reckon that you'll get it, James. When was it dangerous? In Stockport, you used to be attacked if you weren't wearing a hat because they had the hat industry was quite big there and they thought it was unpatriotic to the town if you weren't wearing a hat. You were attacked, not just verbally or in print. People throw things at you.
12: No Such Thing As A 164ft Tall Gorilla-Whale, 2014-05-24 · listen
I saw an image of it. It looks really cool. I went to the Hat Museum in Stockport and they reckon that one of the reasons that hats went out of fashion is because of the motor car because you couldn't wear it inside the car because the roof was too low. When they went out of fashion, no one could really believe it. Newspaper reports of 1948 like bemoaned the fact that there was a new fashion of bareheadedness and the hat industry did some research and they found that.
No Such Thing As A Killer Tomato, 2015-04-10 · listen
There's a few this year. There's one in Stockport where the locals have said it's the worst Christmas tree in Britain. One resident says it's a disgusting tree that looks like it was found in a tip. and the other one is in Kempsteadshire which apparently is so weedy it has to be propped up by a lamp post but I just love these stories because you just see them and they're just like the weidiest rubbishest tree ever but it's not as bad as one there's one in Neubrushk in Russia and their locals have demanded that they remove it because it has been nicknamed the penis fur because it has an extremely bulbous bottom and a shaft-like top One local said, let's be honest, it looks more like a penis than a Christmas tree, which I've seen it, and I think that guy needs to see a doctor.
No Such Thing As A Christmas Treenis, 2015-12-25 · listen
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