STOCKPORT | Full tour of Stockport Town Centre

STOCKPORT | Full tour of the Town Centre. We visit Stockport Town Centre for a look around the shops, the Redrock Centre, the plaza, the Merseyway shopping centre and more!
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If you're looking for things to do in Stockport or wondered what the shopping is like in the town centre then come with us for a walking tour as we take a look around. We also take a look around the Stockport indoor markets and see what that's like.
In this video we'll also pass the Stockport Air Raid Shelters, see The Light cinema, take a walk down Prince's Street, and have a look at the shopping situation in the town centre.
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[@pixelfascination]

Redrock actually won The Carbuncle Cup for the most butt ugly building of the year in 2018.

[@jimmymchugh8305]

It brings back the reason why I emigrated !

[@michaelparton71]

where you end up ?

[@debsday5445]

Stockport used to be a lovely busy vibrant town , like most towns there is nothing really to see, drab dirty empty shops , definitely lots or crime and YES I live there.

[@leahcooney7946]

it used to be a really good full day out when i was younger, not the only nice place is the old town

[@petercollins7848]

Agree! It is a dump compared to the vibrant town it used to be. No shops of any quality, all the major stores have fled. There always seems to be ‘refurbishment’ going on, but nothing really improves.

[@amsmith123]

Nice walk down memory lane. I worked at Merseyway Food Market back in 1979 straight out of High School, haven't been back since, it's changed quite a bit. Now living in the States for the past 35 years.

[@paulinefearnley9379]

Another great video loved the pedestrianised areas and the market keep on walking 👍🚶🏻❤️

[@carolpartridge7378]

Some of the new buildings are bit like in any town. The older bit of town is nice. Loads of choice of shops. Most noticable.......NO RUBBISH on the streets. Thumbs up !

[@lucindalavelle4246]

I was there a month ago. I'm now back in Libya and although Stockport is not the prettiest, go into Bramhall if you're looking for good good and great shops, it still beats Tripoli!

[@elainehowell2836]

It looks like a nice place to walk round the town and some nice big town centre and looks a bit busy and sunny day

[@tonymcguinness4889]

Hello from South Africa. A pleasant interesting walk. Nice clean streets. Thank you.

[@andywright3450]

Hey mate Stockport looks really nice never been there only gone through it on the train great video thanks mate

[@raymondkeen196]

In the 60s before mersey way was built on, we used to ride up Princess st, through the square, down Mersey way, and repeat, chatting up the girls at every opportunity. Happy Days

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Ah lovely - bet that was great times!!

[@karenking4271]

A lovely town, pleasant to walk through. Thank you for sharing, Hun :) x

[@olybeddard3506]

It’s a dump

[@bookinsights1092]

I used to pass through Stockport when I lived in Buxton for my studies. Unfortunately I didn't spend much time in the town but people had above average opinions about the place.

[@geoffgreenhalgh3553]

Not many beggars on that walkabout. Note the scroat on the scooter at 7.53 going the wrong way up a bus lane. Also the pigeon kicker with the strange hair at 8.28. Lots of empty shops now. They are always digging the pavement up.

[@peteandmaggie8570]

Stockport is my own town or the closest town to me... very rarely do we go there...due to it feels that its run down but, you shown it in a good light 👍

[@denisebell8422]

My home town Stockport - best cinema around lovely comfy seats ❤❤

[@anthonylittlewood810]

Best town too

[@tonywest1067]

A very nice video as always most of the town looks new very clean and tidy loved the market a very big ASDA

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Yeah Very!

[@mikesanders5433]

Born and raised in Stockport, work behind the pyramid too and when in the office was walking regularly through the TC too. Not half a bad town that’s had it’s ups and downs and is certainly on its way up in recent times despite what resident whinge-bags and naysayers say, usually it’s those who can’t accept change and investment being put into the town and who want the place to stay a half empty run down, unpolished heap 😂. The town is getting long term investment to repopulate and overhaul the existing run down areas and transport routes, has a great football club, good facility’s and some good eateries too in and around the local areas. Thank you for the nice vid 👍

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Well said. I have the same negative fools in my home city too who just whinge instead of cracking on with life. Sad times.

[@petercollins7848]

Not a single department store in the whole town. Even NEXT has fled. How is that an improvement? I used to visit the town centre every week because of the variety of the stores, now I only go about once every couple of months when I really need to.

[@__-eo9nu]

I remember walking around stockport post covid. There were loads of closed down shops and only drug addicts and teenagers up to no good were walking around. After coming out of the redrock and heading to the car some alcoholic holding a stella tried to sucker punch me for no reason. It made me quite sad seeing Stockport in that state so its nice to hear its getting improvements. I currently study away from Stockport and commute from a town far worse than it. The saddest thing is nobody is doing anything about it and the Labour MP who is in charge doesnt even live here because its that bad.

[@Makeyourselfbig]

@@__-eo9nu So despite there being a Tory government for the last 14 years it's the Local Labour MP's fault? Talk about having your head in the sand.

[@margaretdrew2844]

Love the market

[@hilarynewton8179]

The Market Is no more

[@helenweatherby1694]

I grew up in Stockport and had a Saturday job in Freeman Hardy and Willis on Prince’s Street in the 70s.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

How did you find it?

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

Very well filmed, and it's nice to see that there might be a chance of an important change to this once pleasant town. Any sort of crime should surely be dealt with by the local police, I would have thought.

[@stephenmatthias3503]

Worked there 16 years ago, it has changed since. Still nice to see some parts though.

[@jolrobbo100]

I've lived here nearly 20 years it has some really good events and I love the market.I am loving seeing the change and new developments. Also has a really good history. Yes there is crime but I feel happy living here. Love the Light cinema and new music venues and restaurants, shops,bars,cafes etc are bringing in people from all over. Also proud we have filming locations here. Also a fantastic football stadium and team Stockport County FC.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Well said - it's a fine place!

[@petercollins7848]

What shops? They have all closed!

[@tapovardhanraut9873]

Stockport looks Good and seems like it's a big City 👍

[@tapovardhanraut9873]

@Deborah Glaves Thanks for your reply and letting me know that it's not a city .👍

[@petercampbell8694]

Not the place it used to be 😥

[@nickolaskipworth8461]

I used to live in Stockport but left in 1998. I can't believe how much it has changed.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Yeah changed a lot!!

[@legomovieman2]

I'm sorry you had to visit, the camera makes it look nicer than it actually is.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

😮😮😮😮

[@Urbanplann]

The market looks lovely! Birkenhead has a massive market but its basically derelict. Shame it does not look like this!

[@MsrAlaindeFerrier]

Love Stockport my home town but I don’t care for all the red they’ve put up like on the front of the plaza and the new cinema could have been a better choice of colour Everyone I know thinks it’ll date really quickly and look shabby That aside they have improved Stockie and still love to shop there much more than Manchester City centre Thanks for posting X

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Interesting point about the red. I’d not thought anything about it till you mentioned it but I do actually agree with your view

[@pugwall316]

Great video - shame it misses the regeneration of underbank with the new bars and restaurants - looks amazing and is having a lot of footfall! Viva Stockport! UTH!

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Yeah I didn’t know about Underbank so will return and film that too as sounds like an exciting development

[@pugwall316]

@@GimbalWalkTV I didn’t know it had changed so much either, until recently - some people told me. When I was a kid there wasn’t much there, except a music shop, amazing chippy and a record shop. The new French restaurant and bar there look beautiful - i can’t wait to get back and visit!

[@pugwall316]

Foodie Friday around the market hall is great too!

[@petercollins7848]

@@pugwall316 A lot of shops are closed. All the big stores have left, and the Council have taken over most of the town and a lot of development is taking place, but I am not sure that it is what people want or will generate an income to keep the Council Tax down. What we desperately need is shops like in the old days, not lots of cafes and restaurants.

[@petercollins7848]

@@GimbalWalkTV The Underbanks are a run down dump too. Mary Portas tried to help some years ago, but it all failed. I can’t believe that anyone thinks this town is smart. Have people never been abroad to other towns and cities? I lived in Germany for 18 months and when I returned to the UK I could cry at the contrast. Of course the Public don’t help with their littering and anti-social ignorant behaviour.

[@juliegough350]

Watched this last night, this is my home town and has been for 50yrs+ there has been a decline in the town for many years its a shame really the council need to lower rents of shops and get people back in them, too many nail bars, vape and charity shops, great vlog though, will be watching more of them 😊 6:21

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Thank you! Agree with what you’re saying Although I do hear it’s on the up now with lots of new developments happening?

[@juliegough350]

New homes being built around the bus station and where the old sainsbury store was, we are looking at moving out of the area because property prices are ridiculous we cant afford what we want. Thanks again for the film, maybe one day we could put a face to your name lol 😊😅😅😂

[@jaro967]

You missed out underbank! Lots of old buildings up there and usually always a film crew!!😁

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Whereabouts is it?

[@jaro967]

If when you came down from the market you did a left instead of carrying on into Mersey square, it would have taken you towards it! Some really old buildings and staircases! Very interesting! Great vid too!👍

[@trishanunn8629]

Princes Street where Redrock is seems to have changed name, long ago was a busy bustling street with lots of people and shops but times change, the people and shops gone, or empty? So many nail bars? The bridge over the start of The Mersey - at least the merging of the Rivers Goyt and Tame is under there somewhere?

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Ah didn’t know that! Will have to go back and film more of Stockport

[@stevebuckley2429]

Left Stockport in1965,it has certainly changed.

[@georgeharrison5362]

And moved to Luton??

[@Pierre61]

No love for Fishy Brew (or great underbank in the video)? Just the remembered smells of that place takes me back decades.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Am back soon for a longer walk there

[@Isabellaacapella]

Nice to see Jewel on the hill, best shop in Stockport! But what a shame you didn’t show Little Underbank.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Will do in the next one - Stockport is on the rise

[@Isabellaacapella]

@@GimbalWalkTV Oh good! I love that area! I’m not from around here but I’ve lived in Stockport for about 20 years now. It may not be perfect but it does definitely have its beauty! And plenty of fascinating historic buildings… ❤️

[@miladydewinter7770]

I am so glad I was brought up in Stockport before the council make a complete mess of it all -- but I have to congratulate you on making a seriously drab town look like somewhere i would like to visit had I not known exactly what it looks like in real life. I love Stockport but it really is a sh*t-hole.

[@CouncilOfWolves]

Looks clean and well maintained with a highly pedestrianised town centre which is a good thing.

[@petercollins7848]

It is not clean and is a mess. Camera work always makes places look brighter and tidy. We have lots of new buildings, but they provide nothing really that people want. Multiplex cinemas, trendy cafes, and new bus stations do not replace all the lovely department stores that we once had or the interesting individual shops. Stockport is a nothingness compared to what it used to be. How some commentators can think it has improved is beyond me. Even NEXT has fled the town. There is only one place to buy clothes now in the Precinct and that is Primark - cheap and nasty stuff that people throw away after a few wears!

[@pricklydoorhandle]

It’s like the wild west at night, weeee haaaaa!

[@GimbalWalkTV]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Tony-gv6ty]

Thanks for the show. I have to be honest and say the town looks drab. ❤

[@johncochrane2707]

First.

[@GAMING_4_LIFE1]

I live in stockport

[@petercollins7848]

This video has been excellently filmed, and with its vivid colours actually makes Stockport look attractive. The sad reality though is that all the nice classical and historic buildings that used to make the town look special have been demolished and replaced with square boxes that have no soul. All the major stores have left Stockport and we are left only with cheap and nasty outlets like Primark. As for litter, films always seem to show places in the best light, but Stockport is as litter strewn as anywhere else these days. Compared to similar towns abroad Stockport is a dump, and in my estimation always will be. Sad! (Stockport born +bred).

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Stockport is on the up now though isn't it? It feels like a very exciting time for Stockport right now from what I've heard!

[@petercollins7848]

@@GimbalWalkTV Very little of what is being constructed will really improve the lives of the people in Stockport. The town was ruined in the 60’s and will struggle to ever get back to what it was. We need shops, not posh bus stations. There was nothing wrong with the old bus station that a good lick of paint would not cure. But Councils love big budget projects as it makes them look as if they a doing something. We need departments stores back. The smaller ‘boutique’ shops we have left sell overpriced goods to cover the sky high rental costs of the units. We need the big names that can keep prices down due to purchasing scale.

[@stephenhowes6378]

Stockport comes from the name stockford where you walked over the Mersey river.get it right

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Get it right?

[@willileo2373]

Anyone live there knows someone called “Muhana Jarjis” ? He’s my uncle. tell him my greetings because we lost contact with him

[@janeokonkwo2164]

It's a dead p,ace but you live there that as your market

[@Velaxity]

It's in greater Manchester, & you were joking about the safest place to live in the UK, right? lol

[@GimbalWalkTV]

“research found the district is one of the safest areas to live in the UK, with a safety score of 79 out of 100, predominantly due to its high street-light expenditure, low crime and flood risks”

[@Velaxity]

@@GimbalWalkTVThat's hilarious, it used to be rough.. Cant imagine it's changed that much.

[@lookitsmenotyoutoo8447]

It's a shit hole (I live there) it's dangerous (by far not the safest place to live 😂😂🤯 don't know where that stat was from) and not half as beautiful as it used to be, crime, vandals, theft and the only shops that are open are mostly pound shops and charity shops, they could have made this place great but the council don't care enough, glad you walked around so I don't have to

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Yeah it's a fact that it's one of the safest places to live!

[@leahcooney7946]

defo not the safest place hahaha! old town is so nice at the minute tho something needs to happen to the main street its awful every shop shut down apart from primark and maccies

[@jackbackband7733]

Don't be put off the town isn't as boring as this video would suggest.

[@bethanyc9733]

Safe I hate stocky now don't go unless I really have too. People are friendly? No there not it's full of rough people who take drugs. It used to be really good in the old days.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

❤️❤️❤️

[@spacey9686]

I’ll be honest, Stockport town centre is a dump. It’s terrible and is nothing like what it was once, but, it’ll always be home, and it’ll always have that charm and nostalgia to it. I’ve lived in Stockport my entire life, and I don’t think I could live anywhere else. Say what you want about it, but is home. ❤

[@anthonylittlewood810]

Nothing wrong with my town better then most in country might be abit ugly but still

[@kerrylouise1295]

Certainly not a pleasant place to live and I live here if u look at someone the wrong way u get what the f u looking at moody ppl also quite a few shops shut and not in the best condition so please don't go around Stockport making out it's all this and that cuz am telling u it certainly isn't

[@GimbalWalkTV]

I have no issues in Stockport - Just approach people with a friendly smile and a hello and get the same back!

[@kerrylouise1295]

@@GimbalWalkTV you haven't seen it from my point of view I live here am guessing you don't in witch case you won't see the true Stockport u never filmed the shops that where closed you never filmed the true state of Stockport or underbank witch was. Once a thriving place maybe film that and stick around during the evening and then u might witness the not so nice Stockport just saying it needs alot of work doing to it atm not not so great

[@user-zq1kx3lv1l]

Don't believe all you read. Some of the captions are not correct. Does He know His Stockport, or is He confused? Try Google Maps, Street View, for the right answers.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Apologies for any mistakes - I'm only human Be kind x

[@user-rb7ng3oi4i]

Shit hole trust me iv lived here all my life

[@GimbalWalkTV]

People say that about every place I film to be fair

[@user-rb7ng3oi4i]

@@GimbalWalkTV well me you need to show the real side of places n stop suger coating

[@GimbalWalkTV]

@@user-rb7ng3oi4i Sugar coating? I'm literally just filming what's really there 🤣