Parts of the precinct are set for a multi-million pound investment
With Stockport's Merseyway shopping centre undergoing a multi-million pound revamp, the M.E.N. look back on the precinct's history.
Building the shopping centre was quite a feat of engineering as it straddles a 500-metre length of the River Mersey running through the centre of Stockport – with just nine inches of concrete and a 10 metre drop keeping shoppers and water apart. The Merseyway shopping centre was built to reflect the exciting and modern aesthetic of 1960s design. Its foundation stone was laid in 1965, with the project finally being completed in 1970 at a cost of more than £10 million.
The same year the time capsule was opened, another was laid back in the ground alongside the original, packed with items from local schoolchildren. Now one of the oldest surviving shopping centres in the UK, in 2021, the MEN interviewed a number of Stockport's shoppers who felt the precinct was again in need of renovation and modernisation.
Does Merseyway shopping centre awaken any memories for you? Let us know in the comments section below.
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