- The Stockport Air Raid Shelters were opened in 1939 shortly after war on Nazi Germany had been declared. A year later, the first bomb fell on Stockport.
- Stockport’s tunnel air-raid shelters were constructed between 1938 and1939. The Chestergate shelters were a series of tunnels cut into the sandstone.
- The largest of the Stockport Air Raid Shelters have been open to the public since 1996 as part of the town's museum service.[1].
- Stockport Air Raid Shelters and a labyrinth of tunnels under part of the town centre which provided shelter to Stockport residents in World War II.
- The Stockport Air Raid Shelters are a system of almost 1 mile of underground air-raid shelters dug under Stockport, 6 miles south of Manchester, during World...
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- Stockport Air Raid Shelters. Step back in time and experience the sights and sounds of Britain's Home Front.
- Stockport Air Raid Shelters consist of a labyrinth of underground passages, cut deep into the soft red sandstone underneath the Stockport town center.
- Thank goodness I have until May 2014 to complete them all. One of my challenges was to visit Stockport’s Air Raid Shelter on Chestergate.