Burtonwood Peace Camp, 1982 Whilst the Peace Camp is a relatively modern peace of Warrington’s history, we have virtually no mention of it in the town’s museum or archive, and...
UFO’s Invade Sankey? When searching through our images of Sankey and Penketh I came across the above photograph. My first thought was that I had found a scene...
Westbrook, the Silver Jubilee District? “The Westbrook area plan” was published by the Warrington New Town Corporation in 1978, setting out just what they wanted the new district of Westbrook...
St. George’s Children’s Home As part of our project to gather West Warrington memories, a member of the public has kindly sent us a scan of a commemorative programme ...
The Golden Harrow I have chosen this image for today’s blog entry, partly because it is quite funny, but also because it shows some of the difficulties we...
Fiddler’s Ferry Locks The image shown below was recently donated to the museum. It shows two boys sitting on the bridge at Fiddler's Ferry Locks, with the local...
Sweden in Warrington’s Archives Some of you may remember my writing a series of blog entries about the Rylands Archives looked after by the Museum. The project to catalogue that particular...
