Stockport Town Hall

Stockport Town Hall is a suitably grand Edwardian structure built at a time when Stockport and Great Britain were at their very best. An example of English Baroque and opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1908, it has to be one of the finest examples of municipal architecture in the land.

Despite this, the city fathers put it to good use in the twentieth century’s two most dreadful wars. The ballroom served as a hospital during the Great War and it was used as a home for refugees from the Channel Islands during the Second World War.

However important we are, however beautiful, educated, respected or esteemed, may we never shirk from our responsibility to help others and bless them in Jesus’ name. Christianity is not just theology, it is a lifestyle, and it means putting others before oneself.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:18