Runcorn, Town Centre c.1965
Photo ref:
R67062
Photo ref:
R67062
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Runcorn grew rapidly in the early 1800s from a town in 1801 with a population of just under 1,500 to one with over 10,000 people only 30 years later. However, by the beginning of the 1960s, just before the act that designated the area as a new town, the population had only grown to over 26,000 people.
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A Selection of Memories from Runcorn
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Runcorn
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I think this picture is of hillside avenue, I lived at number five with my mum and dad Mr & Mrs Wood.
The memories of years passed still make me smile of the fun we had on little hill and big hill as it was called then.
Catching rabbits on the hill, making fires in happy valley and cooking them with spuds that we had dug from the farmers fields ( I think was Toffs R Gregory's).
Scratching are names and date's into ...see more
When I went to Holy Trinity School in the 1950.s the school class was49 children 1 teacher. when we had a different subject we just changed books. one of the highlights of school was going to ferry hut where we had a drawing lesson drawing the church opersite in Widnes.which was in Lancashire in them days and then on to a new school the grange.the down side is we left school at 14 years old and then started ...see more
i was born in 1946 off Latham avenue
I can remember the big pond as we called it being drained at the bottom Latham avenue, and old wooden boats exposed and burnt...to build spur road ?
My dad worked at old quay offices in Mersey road and he used to play hell if I swam near ferry hut
In sixties it was new inn then into the scala... Good times
Went to Victoria road primary... Don't know anyone in Runcorn now... Moved out when new town moved in .
I lived in Runcorn until I was 8 (1960s) and I remember going into town on the bus with my mother. We would always stop at "Le Rendezvous" (which as a child I remember thinking was a very strange word) and she would get a "frothy coffee" (we didn't call it cappuccino back then). It was served in a pyrex cup and saucer. I would usually have Horlicks (made in a specially branded Horlicks whisk machine).
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