The Ham and Egger Files

The Stockport Pyramid is reopening in 2025. One of the first landmarks - among many fine buildings - we noticed when we moved to Stockport i...

A look at Stopfordian Pubs during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Four years ago today we photographed The Kings Tap on Station Road in Cheadle Hu...

A look at Stopfordian Pubs. Three years ago today we photographed The Kings Tap on Station Road in Cheadle Hulme. It became the first of 265...

We're big fans of Art Deco style, design and architecture and we've been remembering our trip to Doncaster last year and our stay at...

What a piece of signage. Salford Shopping Centre opened as Salford Precinct in 1972 and was renamed Salford Shopping City in 1992 Even thoug...

Erratum - we missed a pub on our lockdown pub crawl of Stockport Borough. We visited 265 pubs, bars and clubs during the national lockdown b...

A look at a Budgens supermarket in Sheffield. The supermarket on London Road was a Sainsbury's Local until February this year. It reopen...

A look at the pubs of Stockport during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Pub number 1 - The Kings Tap on Station Road in Cheadle Hulme...

A look at an old Woolworths store in Brunstane, Edinburgh. The abandoned Woolworths store in Brunstane, Edinburgh in August 2011 My ...

A look at the The Big Apple Kiosk in Swansea. During our road-trip around the Welsh coast in August 2009 we spent a day playing petanque...

While out for a lunchtime cycle in Stockport I rode through the council offices at Stopford House and managed to get this nice snap of the B...

Finding a new tickable list activity in Stockport. On our way back from a visit to the Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery last week we ha...

We recently became members of the Plaza Film Club at the Plaza Super Cinema and Variety Theatre in Stockport. The wonderful Art Deco bui...

While in Hastings old town recently I spotted a very eye-catching building - the Piece of Cheese Cottage! In all my many visits to t...