If you are interested in the history of the cotton spinning industry, head to the Stockport Vintage Emporium.
It is housed in one of the seven floors of the Pear New Mill Spinning Mill at Bedbury in Stockport, which was one of the last cotton spinning mills to be built in England, starting production in 1913.
With its vast chimney looming over the River Goyt representing the scale of Manchester’s and Stockport’s former cotton industry, the now Grade II-listed building, built of terracotta-detailed red Accrington brick and with large windows, ceased operation as a textile mill in 1978.