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Great Sankey Silver Jubilee

Any of you following my blogs on the West Warrington Memories Project might remember that earlier on I showed you a picture of the Great Sankey Silver...

The Salvation Army Eventide Home, Penketh

Today’s blog entry for the West Warrington memories Project shows another long gone Penketh building, the Eventide Rest Home, opened by the Salvation Army in...

Great Sankey Forum

Our recent drive to gather memories, photographs, and ephemera relating to West Warrington was inspired by the upcoming construction of the new Sankey Community Hub....

Burtonwood Service Station

Our drive to record as much history of Burtonwood, Penketh, Sankey and other areas of West Warrington as possible is not limited to the long...

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...

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