MEMORIES OF MARGARET THATCHER IN STOCKPORT

Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who died yesterday at the age of 87, visited Stockport on many occasions.

Amusing accounts of her many visits to the North West are documented at http://www.margaretthatcher.org including a visit to Robinsons Brewery in Stockport in June 1983:

“The bedlam of the Prime Minister’s three frantic hours on the region’s campaign trail, which spilled over the Manchester Airport concourse, a Bolton bakery and a Stockport brewery, needed only the manic face of a John Cleese to make the analogy perfect”.

Having landed at Manchester Airport, she first visited Warburton’s Bakery in Bolton before travelling to Stockport and being greeted by a crowd of some 200 on Hillgate at the gates of Robinson’s brewery.

Although the majority of the crowd who turned out to greet Mrs Thatcher in Marple Bridge in 1992 were friendly, one women was not so welcoming as shown in the image below.