Additional editing Alex Potter.
Thanks to the Stockport Memories group on Facebook who helped with local knowledge, especially Paul Jenkins and Jim Savage for their input about the River Goyt and the Stockport Hydro, which did not exist when I last visited Stockport, the town where I grew up.
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