Warrington, Old Houses, Church Street 1894
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At this time the annual event known as Walking Day was still practiced. Every year, children from the town's churches, chapels, and Sunday schools dressed in white and paraded through the streets. The custom survived until recent times.

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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 ...see more