Over the past few years, I’ve interviewed lots of celebrities and people of note. But I was bricking it when I was granted a chat with the Stockport Viaduct. Construction began in 1839 and, one year and eleven million bricks...
Read MoreYou can’t turn on the telly box or scroll through social media without seeing someone talking about the catastrophic impact that plastic waste is having on our environment. Given the statistics on the subject, it’s hardly...
Read MoreI wasn’t exactly enthused about moving to Stockport. Since relocating to the North I’d enjoyed a Manchester postcode, but Stockport was synonymous with the Merseyway, a 1960s grey brick shopping centre, and far too many steep...
Read MoreI don’t suppose it’s ever occurred to you but putting on a play is a bit like selling fish. Yes, we’ve all seen some stinkers in our time, but that’s not my point. Theatre is retail. You open your shop in town for however long...
Read MoreWe love a good ginnel at Northern Soul. But, depending on where you’re from, there are all sorts of words for what essentially amounts to an alleyway, including jennel, snicket, vennel, gennel, jitty, jetty and our new...
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