SJ9090 : Former Rifle Volunteer
taken 8 years ago, near to Bredbury, Stockport, England

The conversion of the former Rifle Volunteer on Carrington Road is almost complete. Estate agent boards have appeared outside. There is still some scaffolding on the lower level of the building overlooking the River Goyt. The tall lamppost outside carries artwork SJ9090 : Lamppost Artwork: Needhams (East face).
The Goyt rises on the moors of Axe Edge, near the Cat and Fiddle Inn. It runs from the Errwood and Fernilee reservoirs, north of Buxton to Stockport where it joins the River Tame Link to form the Mersey.
It is also fed by the River Etherow which flows from the Woodhead reservoirs and joins near Marple Bridge, the River Sett which joins at New Mills and Todd Brook which joins at Horwich End.
In 2014 as part of the Stockport Arts Trail, an independent group of young people, working towards an Arts Award Qualification at Stockport Central Library, created the images for one face of the artworks, located on lampposts in and around Edgeley. Historic photographs from the libraries archives are on the other face, giving people an idea of how the area looked in times gone by.
A new set of lamppost artworks were set up in 2015 as part of a second Arts Trail celebrating the secret history of silk in Heaton Norris.
Other decorated lamppost have appeared since in other parts of Stockport but documentation is hard to locate.
