2017

SJ9091 : Lamppost Art: St Paul's, Portwood (West face)

taken 6 years ago, near to Bredbury, Stockport, England

Lamppost Art: St Paul's, Portwood (West face)
Lamppost Art: St Paul's, Portwood (West face)
Artwork on a lamppost on Carrington Road SJ9091 : Carrington Road.

The text on this side reads:

PORTWOOD IS A HAMLET AND SUBURB
OF STOCKPORT, ADJOINING THERETO
ON THE EAST, BUT IS PART OF THE
TOWNSHIP OF BRINNINGTON, AND IS
INCLUDED IN THE CENSUS RETURNS
FOR THAT TOWNSHIP.

I USED TO PLAY IN THE GRAVEYARD
AS A KID. I REMEMBER SITTING ON
THE BUS CRYING WHEN THEY
PULLED ST PAULS DOWN,
IT BROKE MY HEART.

SJ9091 : Lamppost Art: St Paul's, Portwood (East face).
Lamppost Artworks in Stockport :: SJ8889

In 2014 as part of the Stockport Arts Trail, an independent group of young people, working towards an Arts Award Qualification at Stockport Central Library, created the images for one face of the artworks, located on lampposts in and around Edgeley. Historic photographs from the libraries archives are on the other face, giving people an idea of how the area looked in times gone by.

A new set of lamppost artworks were set up in 2015 as part of a second Arts Trail celebrating the secret history of silk in Heaton Norris.

Other decorated lamppost have appeared since in other parts of Stockport but documentation is hard to locate.


Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]   © Copyright Gerald England and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Geographical Context: Religious sites Suburb, Urban fringe Burial ground, Crematorium Place: Portwood Former: Churchyard other tags: Lamppost Art Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Brinnington Road [17] · Face of the Lamppost [4] Other Photos: · Carrington Road · Lamppost Art: St Paul's, Portwood (East face) ·
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SJ9091, 155 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Gerald England   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 23 November, 2017   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 9 May, 2018
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 9050 9106 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:24.9754N 2:8.6639W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 9050 9106
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