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 Warrington, Manchester Ship Canal c1960 (ref: W29088) |
Year: 1964
Sad Demise
Sadly we see very few ships passing down the Manchester Ship Canal these days. When I was a kid I lived in Latchford not far from the locks. We used to spend many hours watching the ships pass through the locks on there way to Liverpool or Manchester. We were occasionally rewarded by a pack of cigarettes or sweets thrown by the crew to us kids. Happy days. Last edited: 14/08/2008 09:18 by Ian Miller |
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 Warrington, Academy and Cromwell Statue 1901 (ref: 47251) |
Year: 1960
The Queen's Visit.
I remember as a youngster my mum and dad talking of the Queen's forthcoming visit to Warrington and how the statue of Oliver Cromwell was to be covered so as not to upset her. They eventually moved the statue to a less visible place and the side of the Academy. Last edited: 14/08/2008 09:19 by Ian Miller |
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 Warrington, Market Gate c1965 (ref: W29102) |
Year: 1960
Happy times
The building at the top of the picture with the advert on was a grocers called Hendrey Millings. I worked there as a young man and had my first encounter with the opposite sex!!! Last edited: 03/04/2008 10:49 by Leslie Edge |
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Warrington, Manchester Ship Canal c1960 (ref: W29088) |
Year: 1950
Childhood
My friend and I would await the arrival of American ships on their way to Manchester. We would shout "got any gum chum?!" to the crews. We would occasionally be rewarded by a packet of sweets being thrown from the ship. Far tastier than the English equivalent! Last edited: 03/01/2007 18:49 by Harry Roscoe |
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 Warrington, Church Street 1894 (ref: 33805) |
Year: 1920s
Ike Smith''s Hardware and Bicycle Store
My grandfather, Isaac Smith, had a hardware and bicycle shop on these premises, known universally as the 'Tudor Cottages', from some time towards the close of WW1 to the late 1930s. The premises were owned by Rylands Bros, the nearby wire works, at which Ike (also Ikey) had worked at one time (I infer from census records), and at which his oldest son Arthur later worked until 1955. He set up his business, my father told me, with the compensation he received from being temporarily blinded (for about 6 months), while working on top secret poison gas research while he was a foreman at Warrington Gas Works, sometime around 1916. The whole family, including the children, were apparently required to sign the Official Secrets Act, and my father (also Stan) only told me this story just before he himself died in 1980. At some time in the later 1930s, Rylands Bros persuaded my granddad to move out of the shop while they redecorated it, I understand, with the promise of his return. Isaac was not in fact allowed to return, and the place was then converted into a managers' canteen, which it remained until the time Rylands's became part of British Steel in the 1960s. My mother and father did their 'courting' in the shop's upstairs loft-like rooms. As a young boy helping his dad, my father knocked a nail in the plaster wall which exposed what turned out to be Stuart stucco work. The experts were called in, so this may be on record. There is an article / correspondence about Ike Smith and the shop in the 'Warrington Guardian' some time in the 1980s. I think the undertaker Henry Hough had the remaining one of the three premises, my granddad having the 2 main rooms on the left as you faced them. There is a family story that, at the time of the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918, my granddad remarked to his neighbour that business had been slow that week, to which Henry replied that he 'hadn't buried a living soul all week'. A plaque on an outside wall says that Oliver Cromwell lodged on or near the spot during his Lancashire campaign against the Royalist forces on August 20 1648. Given the civic vandalism that demolished all but the facade of the 1870s Parochial School, also on Church Street, as recently as 2002, and even more recently (2005) the listed 1863 building of the Boteler Grammar School, on School Brow nearby, one worries that this fine old site, dating to the 1630s at least, may go the same way as many other monuments of Warrington's past, despite its listing. Last edited: 05/12/2006 08:48 by Stan Smith |
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