Tag: Stockport

Glitch, Stockport

Glitch, Stockport

Learn more about Glitch – Stockport’s first game focused bar – This venue includes consoles, vintage machines and a whole host of other interesting things to do!

Top 21 Things to do in Stockport Town Centre

Top 21 Things to do in Stockport Town Centre

We have put together a list of 21 things to do in Stockport Town Centre! Jump in to find out more!

Art Battle Debenhams

Art Battle Debenhams

The former Debenhams unit in Stockport town centre is to host a live art battle event on Friday 23rd of September. The event is ticketed and sold half of the ticket allocation in just 3 days. It is important to add it is a real privilege to have this event in Stockport as the Art Battle Manchester team have never held an event outside of the city. So, what is an Art Battle… Well, we will let the Art Battle Manchester team explain that one. 

“Art Battle Manchester XX – Upbeat On The High Street will feature ten new fearless artists taking centre stage. A capacity crowd will watch painters, illustrators, tattooists and street artists go head-to-head in what has been described as Manchester’s most energetic art event. With only 30 minutes to create a masterpiece – YOU will decide who is crowned Champion”

On arrival all visitors are given voting tokens – at the end of reach round the punters vote with their tokens to select winners. This really connects the audience with the action taking place in front of their very eyes. We have visited a Manchester event and can honestly say the atmosphere is incredible. Not only that, but what artists can create in their half an hour slot is unbelievable. 

All the art is auctioned off at the end of the event to raise money for a local charity. Along with the art performances there is pop up bars, street food traders, Djs, live graffiti and street art creators and other animations. This event is going to be a one off and will not happen again so our advice is to get it booked and join us there before it sells out!

Book your ticket by clicking here. 

Bask Stockport

Bask Stockport

Bask is Stockport’s latest speakeasy and music focused bar – click in to find out more!

Sticky Fingers – Stockport’s Polish Artisan Bakery

Sticky Fingers – Stockport’s Polish Artisan Bakery

Find out more about Stockport’s first artisan polish bakery!

Bistro Marc – Stockport

Bistro Marc – Stockport

Bistro Marc will finally open its doors at the painstakingly restored Winter’s on Stockport Underbank on Thursday the 31st of March. The Bistro Marc team have been chomping  at the bit to get open and it is great to see it is finally happening. 

The amount of people stopping in to ask questions, speak to the owners, get a sneak peek has been crazy – it is great to see such community interest in a such an iconic local building. Bistro Marc is opening Stockport town centres first French Bistro – it is so positive to see more food operators setting up and adding to the growing local food scene. 

The menu looks great as does the curated selection of handpicked wines. We have not yet tried the food but don’t worry – we will soon be on it when they are up and running! 

Upon entry you really do feel like you are being transported to a beautiful French bistro and wine bar in the heart of a cosmopolitan and thriving urban district. We can’t wait to be strolling past soon and hearing the bustle of this new venue and the atmosphere it will add to the Underbanks! 

PS upstairs you can actually sit next to the clock mechanism and watch all of the moving parts! It is amazing!

If you want to find out more, book a table or just have a nosey click the link here to visit Bistro Marc’s website!



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The Mekong Cat – Stockport

The Mekong Cat – Stockport

Learn more about Stockport’s authentic Southeast Asian Noodle house. Jump in!

This Godless Place Stockport

This Godless Place Stockport

Godless Place is the latest addition to Stockport’s thriving independent hospitality scene. Jump in to find out more!

Why we love Stockport, and so should you

Why we love Stockport, and so should you

Stockport has a perception. It’s had one for a while: unfavourable, forgotten, derelict and declining, the weak younger sibling of the nearby Manctopia.

Towns located near big cities often get pitied for being so close to success and are always by popular opinion almost doomed to fail.

Yes, Stockport has its die-hard fans that have stuck by it through its hardships. Those people should be honoured for their commitment to supporting Stockport. 

But there is no denying that Stockport’s had some negative connotations – denying that would be rose-tinted at best. 

Despite this, there is a feeling of change in the air. A progressive attitude, one that seems to grow with every flight that glides over our town. 

Things that once felt like negatives are no longer so – the noise of consistent flights, the A6 thats cuts through the spine of the town or the M60 that bypasses it. Our location is our friend, it’s our personality, it’s interlocked into our history and part of its future.

We are 7 mins from the city by train, we are located on multiple junctions of a thundering carriage way, we are 20 mins from a worldwide airport hub and 20 minutes from the dramatic Peak District landscape.  

Despite anything else that list of convenient circumstances should make you consider our town. Whether that be a place to call home, a space to set up your business or a location to look for work. 

Stockport however, is greater than its geographic and complimentary infrastructure. It has a heart, a visceral set of collective spaces that would be prized in the European countries that we travel to visit. 

Stockport Marketplace has arguably one of the most enticing streetscapes in the North West. Set with the backdrop of a dominating, yet beautiful,  gothic church and anchored by the Victorian market hall that stands so proudly almost as beacon of hope. 

Adjacent lies the flowing narrow streets of the Underbanks, with its undulating brows, peaks and interesting hidden passageways. As heritage funding begins to trickle into this historic street, positivity continues to flow. Every new set laid, every building brought back to life and every passerby  listing the memories of these spaces with nostalgic precision. 

Weaved into this beautiful and chaotic regeneration sits the small businesses that have committed to Stockport. Passionate people who believe in the towns future and aren’t afraid to share it.  The plant sellers, record stores, niche magazine collectors, indie clothing distributors and a sprinkling of pubs, bars, food halls and restaurants. 

These people are central to the change taking place: the mavericks who took the plunge when friends asked why. It is through these dreamers we should take great comfort in the town’s future.

Not only that but monumental change is around the corner. Stockport bus station is to be transformed into a new state of the art transport interchange topped with a brand new urban park. Merseyway is to be brought to life with vast investment and Stockport Exchange continues on its path to creating a corporate quarter for larger businesses with aspirations to grow. 

Stockport of course has its issues like any town or city across the country, but the continued optimism is catching on. 

The next stage for Stockport is building the homes for the people that have caught the bug. The focus should be on sustainability, green space and a diverse set of housing types. It’s in diversity that we can compete and win against our nearby neighbours. 

With Stockport West and its 3,500 homes coming over the horizon, the potential redevelopment of the large Sainsbury’s site, the towers being built on underused car parks and other areas becoming available – we are on the right track. 

Despite the barrage of negative statements littered in the comments sections across social media and the often relentless slurs of negative stories splashed in the press. We. Us. Stockport. Our town. Continues to progress. 

We are a sleeping giant, gradually awakening by the roar of the not so inconspicuous Emirates Dreamliner. We can all rest easy knowing that those negative comments are starting to fade and it’s not if those perceptions change, it’s simply when. 

Stockport isn’t dying; it’s evolving, changing and adapting to a new generation of ideas. 

We’ve built Stop in Stockport to an audience of over 28,000 people on social media. Reaching over 100,000 people a month. We’ve done it through listening, sharing, joking and documenting Stockport’s transformation with transparent positivity and we want to thank you for being part of the journey that’s got us here. 

Vive la Stockport. 

15 things you’ll know if you’re from Stockport

15 things you’ll know if you’re from Stockport

If you live, grew up, or have spent much time in Stockport, we guarantee you will have experienced a few of these!