Stephen Morris comes from quite a wealthy family. Stephen Morris was born in
Macclesfield, Cheshire. He attended the King's School in Macclesfield which is a private school. His parents could afford to send him to private school. I would say that his family background is more middle-class than working-class.
According to Wikipedia Stephen Morris married fellow New Order member
Gillian Gilbert in 1994 and the couple live in the beautiful village of
Rainow in Cheshire. It is true that this isn't far from where he grew up in Macclesfield. Macclesfield is a nice place it is a market town in Cheshire and it is a relatively middle-class area.
According to Wikipedia Stephen Morris is a fan of science fiction, particularly the TV series
Doctor Who. He has a full-sized
Dalek replica in his rehearsal room, which Bernard Sumner has called "the sixth member" of New Order. He also owns several
military vehicles. For more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Morris_(musician)
Gillian Gilbert was actually born in Manchester but her family moved to the nearby Cheshire market town
Macclesfield when she was young. For more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Gilbert
Peter Hook was born in
Broughton,
Salford, but because of his stepfather's work, he spent part of his childhood in
Jamaica before returning to Salford. Peter Hook's roots are in Salford but they are also in the Caribbean in Jamaica! For more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hook
I believe that Peter Hook still lives for half of the year in Alderley Edge in Cheshire and lives in Majorca the other half the year in the exclusive town of Port Andratx which is part of Spain. Peter Hook's third wife Rebecca was approached to join the cast of the "Real Housewives of Cheshire". This info is taken from an article about Peter Hook in "Cheshire Life" magazine:
https://www.cheshirelife.co.uk/peop...ivision-founder-on-life-in-cheshire-1-4619564
Whilst Peter Hook doesn't live permanently abroad it is likely that he does still spend half the year living abroad in Majorca in the
Balearic Islands, which are part of
Spain. Unless he has sold his property in Spain.
From what people are saying it sounds like Bernard Sumner who was originally from the Salford area might also live in the village Alderley Edge, Cheshire close to his former bandmate Peter Hook. Alderley Edge is quite an exclusive village known for its affluence and expensive houses, falling inside of Cheshire's
Golden Triangle. A number of wealthy professional footballers have chosen to live there in recent times:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderley_Edge
You say that Bernard Sumner is into luxury yachts which he sails all over the place in.
The Jodrell Bank Observatory is in
Cheshire. The
Jodrell Bank Observatory (originally the
Jodrell Bank Experimental Station and from 1966 to 1999, the
Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) hosts a number of
radio telescopes, and is part of the
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the
University of Manchester. The
observatory was established in 1945 by
Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the University of Manchester to investigate
cosmic rays after his work on
radar during the Second World War. It has since played an important role in the research of
meteors,
quasars,
pulsars,
masers and
gravitational lenses, and was heavily involved with the tracking of
space probes at the start of the
Space Age. The managing director of the observatory is Professor Simon Garrington. It is actually an interesting place to visit if you are interested in astronomy!
The Jodrell Bank Visitor Centre and an arboretum, are in the
civil parish of
Lower Withington and the
Lovell Telescope and the observatory are in Goostrey civil parish, near
Goostrey and
Holmes Chapel,
Cheshire.
Goostrey station is a short distance away. On 7th July 2019, the observatory became a
UNESCO World Heritage Site. For more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodrell_Bank_Observatory