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Sankey Brook alias Stinking Brook

Our first picture today reproduces a document rather than a photograph. It shows the front page of a talk given to the Warrington Literary and...

St. Michael’s Burtonwood

Today’s blog entry is looking at Burtonwood, specifically a little bit of recent history of St. Michael’s Church. We have two images to look at, the...

Sankey Marsh

Today’s picture shows Albert Pollitt’s drawing of Sankey Marsh in 1887. A Victorian print of the original artwork is held in the Archives here at...

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...

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