Little Underbank is like a mid Victorian stage set

Little Underbank as seen from the roof of St Ann's Hospice Shop. St Petersgate Bridge opened in 1868 frames the bend in the street that joins Great Underbank. A medieval highway with a gentle gradient for horse drawn traffic and pedestrians.

The Trustee Savings Bank building is a key landmark at the crossroads where money to made and spent in Stockport could be transacted at the front door of Stockport; Hillgate. Robinson's Brewery follows on the downward slope, right

The gradient of Little Underbank as it enters the medieval town. The view is of a zone that was a product of Victorian heritage rebuilding, Classical inserts and a series or road schemes into the late 20th century. It is visibly a road, but possibly not the useful route it once was. This road led to Manchester. Now it leads to Chestergate and onwards  to Stockport Plaza

The drama of Little Underbank comes from the use of the sandstone gorge to build a colossal 18th and 19th century high rise business district at St Petersgate and in Royal Oak Yard. One of the most important heritage districts outside Manchester. The builder created a little Athenian acropolis from the natural sandstone hill



There are some unlet shops in little Underbank which are literally stage sets; windows that convey the illusion of a prosperous terrace selling high quality grocery items such as cheeses selling pictures of bicycles because cycling may be commonplace in this place and a florist for customers to take imaginary flowers to their imaginary homes, families and friends