Culture
Stockport's museums include the "Hat Works", based in Wellington Mill, was a thriving hat factory in Victorian times and Stockport Air Raid Shelters based around the underground tunnels dug during World War II to protect local inhabitants during air raids. Staircase House is a Grade II* listed medieval townhouse which is probably the town's oldest secular building housing the Stockport Story Museum.
The Plaza is a Grade II* listed Super Cinema and Variety Theatre built in 1932. It is the last venue of its kind operating in its original format making it of international significance.
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“What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
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