Since the start of the 20th century Stockport has moved away from being a town dependent on cotton and its allied industries to one with a varied base . It makes the most of its varied heritage attractions , including a national museum of hatting , a unique system of underground Second World War air raid tunnel shelters in the town centre , and a late medieval merchants ' house on the 700-year-old Market Place . In 1967 , the Stockport air disaster occurred , when a British Midland Airways C-4 Argonaut aeroplane crashed in the Hopes Carr area of the town , resulting in 72 deaths among the passengers and crew
Stockport air disaster
Stockport air disaster
Stockport