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A History of Warrington
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ISBN-13: 978-1860772221
Author: Alan Crosby
Published Date: 24-06-2024
Publisher: Phillimore & Co Ltd
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| A town at a crossroads, Warrington’s position on one of the key north-south routes of England, where it crosses the east-west axis of the Mersey valley, has for 2,000 years helped to shape its destiny. A Roman road crossed the river here, then the medieval bridge brought much trade to its market; while the modern motorway network has given the town an almost unrivalled location for commercial and industrial development. Despite its antiquity, in the late 1960s it was designated a new town and in the next 30 years it was transformed into a major regional centre. A long overdue new look at every facet of the town’s past in a richly illustrated narrative. |
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Abraham, Joshua, 39-40
Academy Place, 58
Academy Way, 167-168
actor’s mask, 6
administrative history, 9, 11-12, 18-19, 21, 33, 48-53, 106, 110-124, 145-146
agriculture, 3, 8, 24-26, 29, 33, 41-43, 52, 62, 77, 112-113, 152, 159
Aiken, John, 62
Aikin, John, 59
Ainsworth, Thomas, 87
air raids, 118, 162
Alexander, Thomas, 39
Allen Houghton & Co., 117
Allen, Thomas, 31
aluminium industry, 93
Anglo-Saxon period, 8
Appleton, 76, 115, 126-127
Appleton, Henry, 119-129
Appleton Thorn, 170
apprentices, 51
Arbury, 50
archaeology, 3-5, 12, 14, 23
Archer, James, 54
architecture, 9-10, 14-15, 28-29, 56, 60, 70, 72, 103-104, 114, 132, 134-135, 150-151, 165, 173, 177, 183, 185
Armitage & Rigby, 87-88, 179
Arpley, 25-26, 42, 74, 139, 168-169
Arpley Street, 119, 142, 153
Aspinall, Peter, 56
Assembly Rooms, 105
Atherton’s Quay, 64, 92
Ball, Johnathan, 184
Ballad of Warrikin Fair,
Ballard, Robert, 125
Bank Hall [Town Hall], 47, 67-68, 70, 96, 104, 142, 174, 183
Bank Park, 131, 149
Bank Quay, 26, 47, 63-64, 67-69, 73-74, 92-94, 96-97, 103, 124, 143, 168, 181
Bank Street, 57, 159, 174, 177
Barbauld Street, 23
Barley Mow
Barnes, Randle, 38
Barrow, William, 42
basket-making, 51
Beamont Street School, 153
Beamont, William, 21-22, 24, 29, 72, 111-112, 124, 128, 182
bedstead industry, 92
Bennett, Arthur, 72, 149-150, 183
Berlin Airlift, 164
Bewsey, 28, 33, 42, 74, 124, 150, 157, 170
Bewsey [Old] Hall, 15-16, 18, 29-30
Bewsey Road, 92, 160
Bewsey Street, 89, 104
Birchwood, 4, 162, 168, 170, 173, 181
Birchwood Forest Park, 184
Birchwood Way, 167-168
Bishop’s Wharf, 73
Blackburne family, 49, 56, 105
Blackburne, John Ireland, 109, 112, 130
Bleckly, Henry, 91
Blome, William, 48
Bluecoat School, 56-59, 133
Board of Health (1832), 122-123
Bold Street, 103, 136
Bookbinder, Nat, 163
Booth family, 49, 56
Booth, Robert, 57, 65, 69, 87
Booth, Sir George, 37
Boots the Chemists, 160
borough boundaries, 109, 144-146
borough status, 18-19, 110, 121, 136, 145
Boteler, Edward, 30
Boteler family, 15, 17-19, 26
Boteler Grammar School, 29, 32-33, 57-58, 89, 133-135, 153
Boteler, Sir John le, 18
Boteler, Sir Thomas, 23, 29-30, 32
Boteler, William le, 18, 20, 22
Boydell family, 16-17
Bradley, 26, 28
brewing industry, 76-77, 180
bridewell, 107, 118-120
Bridge Foot, 58, 73, 114, 174
Bridge Street, 2, 16, 22-24, 77, 79, 89, 113-115, 125, 128, 137, 144, 158, 173, 183-184
Bridgeman, Edward, 38
bridges, 2, 5, 16-18, 28-29, 35, 48, 66, 99-100, 142-143, 157-158, 166, 168
Bridgewater Canal, 64
Brint, John, 77
British Nuclear Fuels, 181
Browne, Margaret, 38
Bruche, 156
Buffalo Bill, 139
Bull’s Head,
burgage plots, 19, 24
Burtonhead, 29
Burtonwood, 26, 30, 41-42, 55, 115, 145-146, 169
Burtonwood Airbase, 161-164
business parks, 167, 181
bus services, 156-157, 177
Butler, Christopher, 147
Buttermarket Street, 62, 85, 107, 113, 117, 128-131, 133, 144, 158, 174, 183
byelaws and regulations, 33-34, 49, 53, 104, 112-114
Cairo Street, 25, 56-58, 124, 160
Caldwell, Paul, 118
Callands, 172
canals and navigations, 6, 61-65, 68-69, 98-100
candle-making industry, 94
car-parks, 114, 177
Carpenter, Reverend Philip, 124, 129
carriers’ routes, 62
Carrington Wire Limited, 180
Casino Dance Hall, 163
castle, 14-15
Ceiriog valley, 127
cenotaph, 149
Chaddock, John, 69
chain stores, 160, 173
charity and charities, 22, 31-32, 95, 131
Charles I, 35
Charles II, 36
charters, 18-20, 32, 111
Cheapside, 113
chemical industry, 181
Cheshire Lines Railway, 2, 74
Chester Road, 99, 151
child labour, 51, 82-84
cholera, 122-123
Church Street, 16-17, 21, 24, 36, 52-53, 85, 89-90, 104, 118, 122-123, 160, 179, 183
Church Street School, 134
churches and chapels, 8, 10, 15, 23, 49, 56-58, 61, 95, 132-133
cinema, 139
circuses, 139
Civil War, 28, 35-37, 56
Clare & Ridgway, 97
coaches and carriages, 66-67
coat of arms, 145
Cockhedge (and Mill), 28, 69, 87-88, 96, 117, 130, 179
Cockshott, John, 87
coffee houses, 105, 137
Cole Cranes, 182
commerce and trade, 6-7, 16, 19, 21-22, 25, 28, 33-34, 39-44, 47, 51, 60-70, 77, 112
common land, 25-26, 41-42
commuting, 104, 151, 172
conservation and heritage, 72, 150, 174, 182
conservation areas, 183
Conservative Party, 109-110, 146-147
cookers and stoves, 93, 115
co-operative movement, 160
Cornmarket, 22, 112
cotton industry, 69, 86-88, 117, 179
county borough, 145
court house, 33, 49, 56, 60
courts and justice, 37-39, 49, 53-54, 118, 145
Crab Lane, 42
crime and punishment, 37-39, 42, 53-55, 115, 118-120, 129, 183-184
Croft, 4
Cromwell, Oliver, 36
Cromwell Way, 167, 177
Crosfield, Arthur, 109, 146
Crosfield family, 95-96
Crosfield, Joseph, 93-94
Crosfield’s Limited, 93-95, 143, 181
Crowe, Austin, 149
Cuerdley, 108, 170
Culcheth, 15, 73, 75, 85, 89, 146, 169
cultural history, 135-136, 154
Curwen, Judge, 48
Dallam, 26, 41-42, 57, 73, 77, 91, 103, 122
Dallam Farm, 154, 165-166
Dallam Forge, 91
Daresbury, 9, 127, 181
Davies, Robert, 87
Day, Ernie, 92
Defoe, Daniel, 48, 61
Derby, earls of, 18, 35-36
dialect and language, 8
Dickens, Charles, 137
dispensary, 130
Dissolution, monastic, 23
Dolmans Lane, 105
Domesday Book, 9, 11-12, 14
drapers, 31, 43, 160, 173
Dudley, Robert, 30
Dukes, Charles, 147
Duncan, Thomas, 127
Dychefeld, John, 25
East Lancashire Road, 157-158
Eaton, Alice, 38
Eccleston, Lawrence, 56
Edinburgh, Duke of, 184
Edleston family, 82
education, 28, 32-33, 56-59, 95, 108, 133-135, 153-154
education, secondary, 153
Edward the Confessor, 12
elections, 108-111, 146-147
electricity, 95, 116, 181
Ellesmere Street, 90
employment, 162-164, 169-171, 179, 181-182
enclosure, 26, 41-42
English Partnerships, 171
entertainments, 105, 130, 136-140, 154, 163
environmental issues, 72-73, 122, 150, 183
epidemic disease, 8, 34-35, 102, 122, 125-126
ethnic groups, 163, 172-173
fairground, 137-139
famine, 34-35
Farrer, Richard, 42
Fearnhead, 42, 50
Fell, Thomas, 91
Fennel Street, 52, 78, 183
ferries, 64
field patterns, 24-26
file-making industry, 79-81
fire brigade, 116-118
fires, 33, 36, 116-118, 137
First World War, 148-149, 152
Firth Company, 90, 92, 182
Firth’s Wireworks, 90
Fisher, John, 38
fishing, 31, 61, 63
Fleming’s Tannery, 78
Fletcher Russell, 93, 162
Fletcher, William, 26
food and food supplies, 31, 39-41, 52
foundries, 91
Francis, Frederick and Horace, 132
Friars Gate, 22
Friars Green, 77, 122
friary, 22-25, 28, 48-49
Froghall Lane, 26, 92, 169
fruit and vegetables, 42-43, 62
Fulshagh, John, 26
fustian-cutting, 85-86
Gamble, Robert, 94
gas supplies, 115-116
gasworks, 115-116, 156, 184
Gatecliffe, James, 69
Gemini Retail Park, 178
George V, 142-143, 157
Gerard, Catherine, 105
Gerard, Oliver, 20
glass industry, 47, 67-68, 96-97
Glazebrook, 4, 15, 74, 168
Gleave, James, 143
Golborne, 167
Golden Square, 2, 113, 137, 174, 177
Goldie, Sir Noel Barré, 147
Grappenhall, 3-4, 50, 53, 99, 104, 144, 146, 150-151, 183
Graystone Heath, 42
Great Central Railway, 75
Greaves, Herbert, 163
Greenall family, 146
Greenall, Gilbert, 109-110, 181
Greenall, Lady, 146-147
Greenall, Thomas, 76, 180
Greenalls [Greenall Whitley], 5-6, 76-77, 180
Greening, Nathaniel, 89
Grime, Thomas, 161
grocers, 39-40
Guardians of Warrington, 185
Hall, Mike, 147
Hamlett, Jack, 78
Hancock and Wood, 161
Hancock, Frederick Samuel, 161
Hardewar, John, 26
Hardman, Harry, 91
Harper, Thomas, 37
Harpers Road, 42
Harrison, Gregory, 38
Harrison Square, 166
Hatton, E., 87-88
Hatton, James, 131
Head, Sir George, 82-83
Hodgkinsons drapers, 173
Hogworth, James, 54
Holbroke, Roger, 25-26
Holcroft, Sir Thomas, 23
Hollinfare, 2
Hollins Ferry, 64
Holt, James, 120
Holt, John, 59
Holy Trinity church, 49, 56-57, 61, 127
Home & Colonial Stores, 160
Hornby, Edmund, 109
Horsemarket Street, 24, 105, 113-114, 122, 128, 137, 160, 174
hospitals, 108, 123, 130-131, 148, 151-152
Houghton, 50
Houghton Green, 165
Houghton, William, 89
housing, 25, 28-31, 102, 104, 144, 150-153
housing, council, 145, 150, 158, 165-166
housing, overcrowding, 102, 123-125, 128-129
housing, suburban, 103-104, 144, 150-151, 158, 172
housing, terraced, 103-104
housing, unfit, 125-126, 128, 150, 165
Howard, John, 118
Howley, 61, 64, 78, 92, 99, 122, 124, 127, 179
Howley Lane, 16, 90
Hoyle, Doug, 147
Hughes, J.Y., 154
Hulme, 145
IKEA, 2, 178
incorporation as borough, 111
industrial history, 6-7, 28, 44, 46-47, 67-70, 73, 75-76, 78-82, 84-98, 122, 127, 162, 169-172, 179-182
industrial unrest, 81, 87
industries, aluminium, 93; bedsteads, 92; brewing, 76-77, 180; candle-making, 94; chemicals, 181; cookers and stoves, 93; copper smelting, 67-70; cotton, 68-69, 86-88, 117, 179; decline of, 179, 182; file-making, 79-81; fustian-cutting, 85-86; glass, 47, 67-68, 96-97; iron and steel, 7, 91-93, 180; lead-working, 6; leather, 77-78; linen, 44, 48, 61; metal-working, 6, 79, 91-93, 180; munitions, 162; nuclear, 181; paper and board, 180; pin-making, 82-84; pottery, 6-7, 68; printing and publishing, 135; sailcloth, 44; salt-refining, 69; shipbuilding, 97-98; soap, 93-96, 143, 181; tanning, 77-78, 116-117, 179; textiles, 43-44, 48, 61, 68, 85-88, 94, 172, 179; wartime, 162, 169; wire-working, 82, 89-91, 122, 179-180; working conditions, 78-93, 95-96
industry, water for, 126-127
inns and alehouses, 38, 76-77, 112-113, 180
Ireland, Thomas, 30, 37-38, 42
Irish immigration, 128-129, 133
Irlam Street, 107-108, 118-120, 130
iron and steel industry, 7, 91-93, 180
J. Leigh and Sons, 173
Jacobite Rising 1745, 66
Jenkins, Roy, 147
Jones, Helen, 147
Jones, James, 119-121
Joynson, Thomas, 120
Kendrick, James (senior/junior), 5-6, 12, 14, 84, 123, 130
Kendrick Street, 131
King Street, 77
Kingsway, 158
Knowles, Thomas, 91
Knutsford Road, 82, 99, 104, 158
Labour Party, 146-147
Lancashire Constabulary, 121
landowners, 15-16, 22, 24, 29-30, 41
landscape history, 2-3, 24, 41, 183
Latchford, 5, 11, 16, 53-56, 61, 64, 77, 80, 86-87, 93, 99-100, 103-104, 109, 115-117, 124, 145-146, 156, 160, 168, 173, 184
law and order, 53-55, 87, 118-121, 128-129, 163
lead industry, 6
Leafe, John, 68, 96
legends, 10, 20
Legh family, 24, 26, 56
Legh, Sir Peter, 24-25
Leland, John, 48
Lever Brothers, 95, 181-182
Lever, William, 94
Lewin, William, 54
Liberal Democrat Party, 147
Liberal Party, 96, 109-110, 146
libraries, 135-136
Liptons Ltd, 160
literacy, 58, 134-135
Litton’s Mill, 69
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 63, 73
Liverpool Road, 94
local government, 33, 48-53, 70, 96, 106, 110-115, 117-128, 136-137, 145-147, 153, 156-157, 165, 170
Locker, James, 89
Locker, Thomas, 90
Lockers, wire-working, 179
Locking Stumps, 172
London & North Western Railway, 74-75
Long Lane, 158
Longford, 115, 124, 156-157
Longford Street, 74
Loushers Lane, 6, 150, 154
Lovely Lane, 160, 173
Lowton, Elizabeth, 39
lunatic asylum, 151-152
Lymm, 42, 53, 85, 146, 172
Lyon, Thomas, 76
Lythgoe Lane, 82
Lythgoe, Peter, 143
mail services, 54, 67, 76
Makerfield, 8, 11
Manchester Road, 85, 156
Manchester Ship Canal, 6, 93, 98-100, 104, 121, 145, 150-151
manorial history, 15, 18-19, 21-22, 30, 33, 48-49, 106, 111-112, 119
maps and plans, 3, 10, 14, 28-29, 41-42, 46
market gardening, 42-43
Market Gate, 2, 17, 115, 120, 156, 163, 173, 185
market hall, 112
market place, 16-17, 25, 137, 177
Market Street, 90, 117, 130
markets and fairs, 16-17, 19-22, 33-34, 38, 42-43, 48, 60-62, 77, 111-112, 137-138, 174
Marks & Spencer, 2, 178
Marquis of Granby,
Marsh, John Fitchett, 136
Marsh Street, 160
Martinscroft, 170
Maserfelth,
Mather, Samuel, 55
May, Thomas, 5, 7
medical care, 35, 84, 108, 123, 125-126, 130-131, 148, 152
Mercia, 8, 10-11
Mersey and Irwell Navigation, 63-68
Mersey, river, 3-6, 8, 10-11, 16, 61, 63-66, 69, 73-74, 99, 122, 124, 127, 138-139
Mersey Street, 77, 87, 115-116, 156, 168, 173
metal-working industry, 6, 79, 91-93, 180
Methodism, 133
Middleton, 50
Midland Way, 2, 103, 167
migration, 128, 163-164, 169-170, 172
Miles, Edward, 54-55
military history, 4, 8, 10-12, 14, 35-37, 44, 66, 107, 118, 148-149, 161-164, 169
milk supplies, 159-160
Mill Lane, 122
Mogg, Edward, 48
Monks, Frederick, 90, 92, 129
Monks, Hall & Co., 92-93, 180
Moore, 99, 184
Morgan, Bernard W., 147
mosslands, 41
Mote Hill, 11-12, 14-15, 36
motorways, 2, 11, 144, 158, 164, 166-168, 170, 174, 177
Mowlam, Mo, 185
Museum and Library, 95, 135-136
Museum Street, 135
music, 95, 137
nature conservation, 183-184
Naylor Street, 130
Naylor, Thomas, 87
Neild, William, 91
newspapers, 48, 105, 135
Newton Street School, 133
new town, 143, 164, 167-171, 174, 177-178, 183
New Town House, 177
Nonconformists, 55-56, 58-59, 124, 133-134
Norman Conquest, 14
Norris, Walter, 93
Northumbria, 8
nuclear industry, 181
Oakwood, 172-173
office development, 164, 181
Old Crow Inn,
Oliver Street, 85, 123
Omega project, 164
Orford: 3, 78, 145-146, 150, 158; Barracks, 148; Hall, 140; Lane, 96; Park, 184; Street, 131
Orrett, William, 76
Oswald, St, king of Northumbria, p8-9
Padgate, 74, 156-157, 162, 165, 169-170
Page, Matthew, 69
Palmyra Square, 103-104, 137, 174, 183
paper and board industry, 180
parishes and townships, 9, 34, 50-51
parks, 99, 104, 131, 149, 184
parliamentary history, 108-110, 146-147
Parr Hall, 137
Parr, Katherine, 38
Parr, Thomas, 131
Parry, Colin, 185
Parry, Tim, 184
Patten family, 52, 56, 70
Patten, Thomas, 61, 63, 67-70
Patten’s Quay, 69
Peace Centre, 185
pedestrianisation, 167
Penketh, 15, 41-42, 108, 160
People’s College, 133
Perrin family, 96
Persil, 94, 181
Pewsill, Cicely, 54
Pewterspear, 172
Pierpoint, Benjamin, 127
Pincerna, Richard, 15
pin-making industry, 82-84
Pinners Brow, 82-83
place-names, 2, 15, 24-25
plague, 8, 34-35, 123
Pococke, Richard, 68
Police Commissioners, 106, 110-117, 119-122
police force, 107, 119-121, 145, 163
police station, 119
political history, 4, 8, 11-12, 14, 96, 106-110, 146-147
Pollitt, Catherine, 51
pollution, 72-73, 77, 93, 104, 121-122, 124, 183
Poor Law Union, 107-108
population, 8, 24, 34-35, 46, 102, 108, 123, 125, 128, 144-146, 163, 165, 170, 172-173
Porter, Edward, 147
post offices, 67
pottery industry, 6-8
Poulton with Fearnhead, 50, 102
poverty and the poor, 50-53, 57, 102, 107-108, 113, 123-126, 128, 130
Powys Street, 173
prehistory, 3
Prescott, Henry, 66
Preston, James, 38
Priestley College, 154
Priestley, Joseph, 58-59
printing and publishing, 135
probate records, 29-31, 39-40
professions, 103-105
public health, 35, 84, 102, 108, 114, 122-127, 130-131
Pulforthe, John, 25
Queen Street, 117, 137
Quekett, Reverend, 132
racism, 163
railways, 2, 6, 25, 63, 65, 73-75, 92-93, 99, 102-103, 115, 162, 164, 168-169
Red Lion
refuse-collection, 106, 124
religious history, 8-11, 17-18, 22-24, 30-31, 55-59, 132-134
reservoirs, 127
Richmonds Limited, 93
Risley, 162, 169-170, 181, 184
Risley Moss, 184
river trade, 3, 6, 28, 61, 63-65, 67, 69, 92
Rixton, Randal de, 24
road widening, 113
roads and streets, repair of, 31, 50, 65, 106, 113-114
roads: arterial, 157-158; medieval, 16, 17; motorways, 2, 144, 158, 164, 166-168, 174, 177; new town, 167-170, 174, 177; pre-Conquest, 9; Roman, 6; traffic on, 62, 66-67, 100, 114, 157, 167, 177-178; turnpike, 65-66
Robinson, President Mary, 184
Robinson’s glassworks, 96-97
Roman Catholics, 55, 57, 132-134, 153
Roman period, 4-7
Rose, Edward, 59
Rothwell, Thomas, 42
royal visits, 18, 142-143, 157
rugby league, 154-155
Runcorn, 9-10, 16, 64-65
rural settlement, 3-4, 10, 24-26, 172
Russell, William, 37
Rylands Brothers, 89-90, 92, 122, 179-180, 182
Rylands family, 105
Rylands Street, 137
Rylands, John, 89
Rylands, Peter, 110, 146
sailcloth and canvas, 43-44
Sainsbury superstore, 90, 179
St Austin’s Lane, 24
St Elphin’s church, 9, 11-12, 15-17, 23, 56-57, 61, 132
St James church, Latchford, 56-57, 61
St James church, Wilderspool, 155
St Mary’s RC church, 133
St Paul’s church, Bewsey Road, 132, 149
salt trade, 6, 69, 94
Sankey Valley Park, 184
Sankey, Great and Little, 15, 35, 41-42, 64, 69, 104, 108, 145-146, 164
Saracen’s Head,
Sarah Palmer
Scandinavian period, 10, 12
schools, 29, 32-33, 56-59, 95, 108, 133-135, 140, 153-154, 165
Scotland Road, 36, 79-80, 93, 137, 174, 177
Scottish & Newcastle, 180
Seaman, Peter, 96
Second World War, 118, 161-163
Seddon, John, 58
Shawe, Samuel, 56-57
Shay, Randle, 20
Ship Yard, 125, 128
shipbuilding, 97-98
ships and shipping, 61, 63, 65, 67, 92, 97
shopping and retailing, 2, 24, 31, 39-40, 158, 160-161, 164, 167, 173-174, 177-179
shopping, out of town, 177-178
slum clearance, 103, 144, 150, 165, 169, 172
Smith, Harold, 146
Smythe, John, 26, 93-96, 143, 181
social classes, 103-105, 132, 136, 140, 151, 154, 163, 165
societies and clubs, 135, 137, 140
South Lancashire Regiment, 148-149
Southworth, 4
Southworth, Helen, 147
sports and pastimes, 136-140, 154-155
Stanley Street, 122
Stanley, James earl of Derby, 35-36
Steers, Thomas, 63
Stephen, count of Mortain, 15
Stewart, Charles, 121
Stockport Road, 151
Stockton Heath, 6-7, 36, 44, 100, 144, 151, 156-157, 160, 170, 173, 183
Stopford, Thomas, 37
street-cleansing, 113, 127
street-lighting, 106, 115
Stretton, 54, 170
Strickland, Tim, 5
Stubs, Peter, 76, 79-81
suburban growth, 103-104, 144, 150-151, 158, 172
Summerskill, Edith, 147
swimming baths, 139-140
Tanners Lane, 77-78, 103
tanning and leather industry, 77-78, 116-117, 179
Tayleur,
Taylor, Richard, 32
technical college, 153
Telford, Thomas, 158
terrorism, 184-185
textile industry, 43, 85-88, 94, 179
Thames Board Mills, 162, 180
theatre and drama, 137
Thelwall, 2, 10-11, 16, 144, 184
Thelwall Viaduct, 100, 167
Tilley, William, 119
Time Square, 177
Tinsley Wire Limited, 180
town centre redevelopment, 103, 113, 143-144, 158, 172-178
Town Hall, see Bank Hall
Town Hill, 129
town planning, 17, 19, 24, 102, 104, 113-114, 143, 150-151, 158, 164-171, 173-174, 177-178, 184
town, growth of, 150, 164, 173
town, physical character of, 16, 102-104, 113, 143, 150-151, 164
tramways, 104, 156-157
transport: buses, 156-157; carriers, 62; passenger, 64, 66, 104, 156-157; railways, 63, 65, 73-75, 99, 168-169; tramways, 104, 156-157; waterways, 62-65, 67-68, 98-100
UK Atomic Energy Authority, 181
urban renewal, 103, 113, 143-144, 173-177
urinals, 114
Vaughan, Robert, 38
Vickers, Bronwen, 184
Victoria Park, 99, 184
Wakefield, Gilbert, 59
Walkden, Robert, 38
Walker, Peter, 77
Walklet, Jonathan, 51
Walton, Alan, 25
Walton, Higher and Lower, 6, 146, 181, 183
Warburton, Geoffrey, 25
Warrington Academy, 58-59, 154, 168
Warrington Advertiser,
Warrington bombings, 184-185
Warrington bridge, 66, 99, 142-143, 149, 157, 166, 168
Warrington Castle, 14
Warrington Collegiate Institute, 154
Warrington Corporation, 70, 96, 99, 115, 117, 121, 126-127, 136
Warrington, descriptions of, 48
Warrington Development Corporation, 170
Warrington Equitable Industrial Co-operative Society, 160
Warrington Farm, 159
Warrington football ground, 155
Warrington friary, 22-25, 28, 48-49
Warrington Heath, 24, 26, 35, 137
Warrington, hundred of, 11
Warrington Regatta, 138-139
Warrington, siege of, 36, 56
Warrington Waterworks Co., 126
Warrington Wolves, 154-155
Warrington workhouse, 52-53, 107-108
wartime, 28, 35-37, 118, 148-149, 152, 161-163
water supplies, 77, 106, 124-128, 181
Wesley, John, 57
Westbrook, 172, 181
Westbrook Way, 168
Westy, 150, 158
White Bear Inn,
Whitecross, 90, 92, 104, 108, 146
Whitfield, Ethel, 88
Whitley, John, 76
Wilderspool, 4-8, 16, 56, 76, 80, 93, 99, 139, 145, 155-156, 162, 180
Williams, Thomas, 69, 147
Wilson Patten Street, 119, 174
windmill, 26
Winwick, 4, 8-10, 65, 73-74, 108, 115, 126-127, 145, 167, 177
Winwick Hospital, 151-153
Winwick Road, 103-104, 124, 129, 168
Winwick Street, 58-59, 78, 82-83, 160
wire-working industry, 82, 89-91, 122, 179-180
Wood, David, 161
woollen drapers, 31
Woolston, 54, 64-65, 99, 184
Woolworths, 161
workhouse, 52-53, 107-108, 123
Worthington, John, 43
Wright, Fred, 80
Yates, Robert, 55
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| A town at a crossroads, Warrington’s position on one of the key north-south routes of England, where it crosses the east-west axis of the Mersey valley, has for 2,000 years helped to shape its destiny. A Roman road crossed the river here, then the medieval bridge brought much trade to its market; while the modern motorway network has given the town an almost unrivalled location for commercial and industrial development. Despite its antiquity, in the late 1960s it was designated a new town and in the next 30 years it was transformed into a major regional centre. A long overdue new look at every facet of the town’s past in a richly illustrated narrative. |
index
Abraham, Joshua, 39-40
Academy Place, 58
Academy Way, 167-168
actor’s mask, 6
administrative history, 9, 11-12, 18-19, 21, 33, 48-53, 106, 110-124, 145-146
agriculture, 3, 8, 24-26, 29, 33, 41-43, 52, 62, 77, 112-113, 152, 159
Aiken, John, 62
Aikin, John, 59
Ainsworth, Thomas, 87
air raids, 118, 162
Alexander, Thomas, 39
Allen Houghton & Co., 117
Allen, Thomas, 31
aluminium industry, 93
Anglo-Saxon period, 8
Appleton, 76, 115, 126-127
Appleton, Henry, 119-129
Appleton Thorn, 170
apprentices, 51
Arbury, 50
archaeology, 3-5, 12, 14, 23
Archer, James, 54
architecture, 9-10, 14-15, 28-29, 56, 60, 70, 72, 103-104, 114, 132, 134-135, 150-151, 165, 173, 177, 183, 185
Armitage & Rigby, 87-88, 179
Arpley, 25-26, 42, 74, 139, 168-169
Arpley Street, 119, 142, 153
Aspinall, Peter, 56
Assembly Rooms, 105
Atherton’s Quay, 64, 92
Ball, Johnathan, 184
Ballad of Warrikin Fair,
Ballard, Robert, 125
Bank Hall [Town Hall], 47, 67-68, 70, 96, 104, 142, 174, 183
Bank Park, 131, 149
Bank Quay, 26, 47, 63-64, 67-69, 73-74, 92-94, 96-97, 103, 124, 143, 168, 181
Bank Street, 57, 159, 174, 177
Barbauld Street, 23
Barley Mow
Barnes, Randle, 38
Barrow, William, 42
basket-making, 51
Beamont Street School, 153
Beamont, William, 21-22, 24, 29, 72, 111-112, 124, 128, 182
bedstead industry, 92
Bennett, Arthur, 72, 149-150, 183
Berlin Airlift, 164
Bewsey, 28, 33, 42, 74, 124, 150, 157, 170
Bewsey [Old] Hall, 15-16, 18, 29-30
Bewsey Road, 92, 160
Bewsey Street, 89, 104
Birchwood, 4, 162, 168, 170, 173, 181
Birchwood Forest Park, 184
Birchwood Way, 167-168
Bishop’s Wharf, 73
Blackburne family, 49, 56, 105
Blackburne, John Ireland, 109, 112, 130
Bleckly, Henry, 91
Blome, William, 48
Bluecoat School, 56-59, 133
Board of Health (1832), 122-123
Bold Street, 103, 136
Bookbinder, Nat, 163
Booth family, 49, 56
Booth, Robert, 57, 65, 69, 87
Booth, Sir George, 37
Boots the Chemists, 160
borough boundaries, 109, 144-146
borough status, 18-19, 110, 121, 136, 145
Boteler, Edward, 30
Boteler family, 15, 17-19, 26
Boteler Grammar School, 29, 32-33, 57-58, 89, 133-135, 153
Boteler, Sir John le, 18
Boteler, Sir Thomas, 23, 29-30, 32
Boteler, William le, 18, 20, 22
Boydell family, 16-17
Bradley, 26, 28
brewing industry, 76-77, 180
bridewell, 107, 118-120
Bridge Foot, 58, 73, 114, 174
Bridge Street, 2, 16, 22-24, 77, 79, 89, 113-115, 125, 128, 137, 144, 158, 173, 183-184
Bridgeman, Edward, 38
bridges, 2, 5, 16-18, 28-29, 35, 48, 66, 99-100, 142-143, 157-158, 166, 168
Bridgewater Canal, 64
Brint, John, 77
British Nuclear Fuels, 181
Browne, Margaret, 38
Bruche, 156
Buffalo Bill, 139
Bull’s Head,
burgage plots, 19, 24
Burtonhead, 29
Burtonwood, 26, 30, 41-42, 55, 115, 145-146, 169
Burtonwood Airbase, 161-164
business parks, 167, 181
bus services, 156-157, 177
Butler, Christopher, 147
Buttermarket Street, 62, 85, 107, 113, 117, 128-131, 133, 144, 158, 174, 183
byelaws and regulations, 33-34, 49, 53, 104, 112-114
Cairo Street, 25, 56-58, 124, 160
Caldwell, Paul, 118
Callands, 172
canals and navigations, 6, 61-65, 68-69, 98-100
candle-making industry, 94
car-parks, 114, 177
Carpenter, Reverend Philip, 124, 129
carriers’ routes, 62
Carrington Wire Limited, 180
Casino Dance Hall, 163
castle, 14-15
Ceiriog valley, 127
cenotaph, 149
Chaddock, John, 69
chain stores, 160, 173
charity and charities, 22, 31-32, 95, 131
Charles I, 35
Charles II, 36
charters, 18-20, 32, 111
Cheapside, 113
chemical industry, 181
Cheshire Lines Railway, 2, 74
Chester Road, 99, 151
child labour, 51, 82-84
cholera, 122-123
Church Street, 16-17, 21, 24, 36, 52-53, 85, 89-90, 104, 118, 122-123, 160, 179, 183
Church Street School, 134
churches and chapels, 8, 10, 15, 23, 49, 56-58, 61, 95, 132-133
cinema, 139
circuses, 139
Civil War, 28, 35-37, 56
Clare & Ridgway, 97
coaches and carriages, 66-67
coat of arms, 145
Cockhedge (and Mill), 28, 69, 87-88, 96, 117, 130, 179
Cockshott, John, 87
coffee houses, 105, 137
Cole Cranes, 182
commerce and trade, 6-7, 16, 19, 21-22, 25, 28, 33-34, 39-44, 47, 51, 60-70, 77, 112
common land, 25-26, 41-42
commuting, 104, 151, 172
conservation and heritage, 72, 150, 174, 182
conservation areas, 183
Conservative Party, 109-110, 146-147
cookers and stoves, 93, 115
co-operative movement, 160
Cornmarket, 22, 112
cotton industry, 69, 86-88, 117, 179
county borough, 145
court house, 33, 49, 56, 60
courts and justice, 37-39, 49, 53-54, 118, 145
Crab Lane, 42
crime and punishment, 37-39, 42, 53-55, 115, 118-120, 129, 183-184
Croft, 4
Cromwell, Oliver, 36
Cromwell Way, 167, 177
Crosfield, Arthur, 109, 146
Crosfield family, 95-96
Crosfield, Joseph, 93-94
Crosfield’s Limited, 93-95, 143, 181
Crowe, Austin, 149
Cuerdley, 108, 170
Culcheth, 15, 73, 75, 85, 89, 146, 169
cultural history, 135-136, 154
Curwen, Judge, 48
Dallam, 26, 41-42, 57, 73, 77, 91, 103, 122
Dallam Farm, 154, 165-166
Dallam Forge, 91
Daresbury, 9, 127, 181
Davies, Robert, 87
Day, Ernie, 92
Defoe, Daniel, 48, 61
Derby, earls of, 18, 35-36
dialect and language, 8
Dickens, Charles, 137
dispensary, 130
Dissolution, monastic, 23
Dolmans Lane, 105
Domesday Book, 9, 11-12, 14
drapers, 31, 43, 160, 173
Dudley, Robert, 30
Dukes, Charles, 147
Duncan, Thomas, 127
Dychefeld, John, 25
East Lancashire Road, 157-158
Eaton, Alice, 38
Eccleston, Lawrence, 56
Edinburgh, Duke of, 184
Edleston family, 82
education, 28, 32-33, 56-59, 95, 108, 133-135, 153-154
education, secondary, 153
Edward the Confessor, 12
elections, 108-111, 146-147
electricity, 95, 116, 181
Ellesmere Street, 90
employment, 162-164, 169-171, 179, 181-182
enclosure, 26, 41-42
English Partnerships, 171
entertainments, 105, 130, 136-140, 154, 163
environmental issues, 72-73, 122, 150, 183
epidemic disease, 8, 34-35, 102, 122, 125-126
ethnic groups, 163, 172-173
fairground, 137-139
famine, 34-35
Farrer, Richard, 42
Fearnhead, 42, 50
Fell, Thomas, 91
Fennel Street, 52, 78, 183
ferries, 64
field patterns, 24-26
file-making industry, 79-81
fire brigade, 116-118
fires, 33, 36, 116-118, 137
First World War, 148-149, 152
Firth Company, 90, 92, 182
Firth’s Wireworks, 90
Fisher, John, 38
fishing, 31, 61, 63
Fleming’s Tannery, 78
Fletcher Russell, 93, 162
Fletcher, William, 26
food and food supplies, 31, 39-41, 52
foundries, 91
Francis, Frederick and Horace, 132
Friars Gate, 22
Friars Green, 77, 122
friary, 22-25, 28, 48-49
Froghall Lane, 26, 92, 169
fruit and vegetables, 42-43, 62
Fulshagh, John, 26
fustian-cutting, 85-86
Gamble, Robert, 94
gas supplies, 115-116
gasworks, 115-116, 156, 184
Gatecliffe, James, 69
Gemini Retail Park, 178
George V, 142-143, 157
Gerard, Catherine, 105
Gerard, Oliver, 20
glass industry, 47, 67-68, 96-97
Glazebrook, 4, 15, 74, 168
Gleave, James, 143
Golborne, 167
Golden Square, 2, 113, 137, 174, 177
Goldie, Sir Noel Barré, 147
Grappenhall, 3-4, 50, 53, 99, 104, 144, 146, 150-151, 183
Graystone Heath, 42
Great Central Railway, 75
Greaves, Herbert, 163
Greenall family, 146
Greenall, Gilbert, 109-110, 181
Greenall, Lady, 146-147
Greenall, Thomas, 76, 180
Greenalls [Greenall Whitley], 5-6, 76-77, 180
Greening, Nathaniel, 89
Grime, Thomas, 161
grocers, 39-40
Guardians of Warrington, 185
Hall, Mike, 147
Hamlett, Jack, 78
Hancock and Wood, 161
Hancock, Frederick Samuel, 161
Hardewar, John, 26
Hardman, Harry, 91
Harper, Thomas, 37
Harpers Road, 42
Harrison, Gregory, 38
Harrison Square, 166
Hatton, E., 87-88
Hatton, James, 131
Head, Sir George, 82-83
Hodgkinsons drapers, 173
Hogworth, James, 54
Holbroke, Roger, 25-26
Holcroft, Sir Thomas, 23
Hollinfare, 2
Hollins Ferry, 64
Holt, James, 120
Holt, John, 59
Holy Trinity church, 49, 56-57, 61, 127
Home & Colonial Stores, 160
Hornby, Edmund, 109
Horsemarket Street, 24, 105, 113-114, 122, 128, 137, 160, 174
hospitals, 108, 123, 130-131, 148, 151-152
Houghton, 50
Houghton Green, 165
Houghton, William, 89
housing, 25, 28-31, 102, 104, 144, 150-153
housing, council, 145, 150, 158, 165-166
housing, overcrowding, 102, 123-125, 128-129
housing, suburban, 103-104, 144, 150-151, 158, 172
housing, terraced, 103-104
housing, unfit, 125-126, 128, 150, 165
Howard, John, 118
Howley, 61, 64, 78, 92, 99, 122, 124, 127, 179
Howley Lane, 16, 90
Hoyle, Doug, 147
Hughes, J.Y., 154
Hulme, 145
IKEA, 2, 178
incorporation as borough, 111
industrial history, 6-7, 28, 44, 46-47, 67-70, 73, 75-76, 78-82, 84-98, 122, 127, 162, 169-172, 179-182
industrial unrest, 81, 87
industries, aluminium, 93; bedsteads, 92; brewing, 76-77, 180; candle-making, 94; chemicals, 181; cookers and stoves, 93; copper smelting, 67-70; cotton, 68-69, 86-88, 117, 179; decline of, 179, 182; file-making, 79-81; fustian-cutting, 85-86; glass, 47, 67-68, 96-97; iron and steel, 7, 91-93, 180; lead-working, 6; leather, 77-78; linen, 44, 48, 61; metal-working, 6, 79, 91-93, 180; munitions, 162; nuclear, 181; paper and board, 180; pin-making, 82-84; pottery, 6-7, 68; printing and publishing, 135; sailcloth, 44; salt-refining, 69; shipbuilding, 97-98; soap, 93-96, 143, 181; tanning, 77-78, 116-117, 179; textiles, 43-44, 48, 61, 68, 85-88, 94, 172, 179; wartime, 162, 169; wire-working, 82, 89-91, 122, 179-180; working conditions, 78-93, 95-96
industry, water for, 126-127
inns and alehouses, 38, 76-77, 112-113, 180
Ireland, Thomas, 30, 37-38, 42
Irish immigration, 128-129, 133
Irlam Street, 107-108, 118-120, 130
iron and steel industry, 7, 91-93, 180
J. Leigh and Sons, 173
Jacobite Rising 1745, 66
Jenkins, Roy, 147
Jones, Helen, 147
Jones, James, 119-121
Joynson, Thomas, 120
Kendrick, James (senior/junior), 5-6, 12, 14, 84, 123, 130
Kendrick Street, 131
King Street, 77
Kingsway, 158
Knowles, Thomas, 91
Knutsford Road, 82, 99, 104, 158
Labour Party, 146-147
Lancashire Constabulary, 121
landowners, 15-16, 22, 24, 29-30, 41
landscape history, 2-3, 24, 41, 183
Latchford, 5, 11, 16, 53-56, 61, 64, 77, 80, 86-87, 93, 99-100, 103-104, 109, 115-117, 124, 145-146, 156, 160, 168, 173, 184
law and order, 53-55, 87, 118-121, 128-129, 163
lead industry, 6
Leafe, John, 68, 96
legends, 10, 20
Legh family, 24, 26, 56
Legh, Sir Peter, 24-25
Leland, John, 48
Lever Brothers, 95, 181-182
Lever, William, 94
Lewin, William, 54
Liberal Democrat Party, 147
Liberal Party, 96, 109-110, 146
libraries, 135-136
Liptons Ltd, 160
literacy, 58, 134-135
Litton’s Mill, 69
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 63, 73
Liverpool Road, 94
local government, 33, 48-53, 70, 96, 106, 110-115, 117-128, 136-137, 145-147, 153, 156-157, 165, 170
Locker, James, 89
Locker, Thomas, 90
Lockers, wire-working, 179
Locking Stumps, 172
London & North Western Railway, 74-75
Long Lane, 158
Longford, 115, 124, 156-157
Longford Street, 74
Loushers Lane, 6, 150, 154
Lovely Lane, 160, 173
Lowton, Elizabeth, 39
lunatic asylum, 151-152
Lymm, 42, 53, 85, 146, 172
Lyon, Thomas, 76
Lythgoe Lane, 82
Lythgoe, Peter, 143
mail services, 54, 67, 76
Makerfield, 8, 11
Manchester Road, 85, 156
Manchester Ship Canal, 6, 93, 98-100, 104, 121, 145, 150-151
manorial history, 15, 18-19, 21-22, 30, 33, 48-49, 106, 111-112, 119
maps and plans, 3, 10, 14, 28-29, 41-42, 46
market gardening, 42-43
Market Gate, 2, 17, 115, 120, 156, 163, 173, 185
market hall, 112
market place, 16-17, 25, 137, 177
Market Street, 90, 117, 130
markets and fairs, 16-17, 19-22, 33-34, 38, 42-43, 48, 60-62, 77, 111-112, 137-138, 174
Marks & Spencer, 2, 178
Marquis of Granby,
Marsh, John Fitchett, 136
Marsh Street, 160
Martinscroft, 170
Maserfelth,
Mather, Samuel, 55
May, Thomas, 5, 7
medical care, 35, 84, 108, 123, 125-126, 130-131, 148, 152
Mercia, 8, 10-11
Mersey and Irwell Navigation, 63-68
Mersey, river, 3-6, 8, 10-11, 16, 61, 63-66, 69, 73-74, 99, 122, 124, 127, 138-139
Mersey Street, 77, 87, 115-116, 156, 168, 173
metal-working industry, 6, 79, 91-93, 180
Methodism, 133
Middleton, 50
Midland Way, 2, 103, 167
migration, 128, 163-164, 169-170, 172
Miles, Edward, 54-55
military history, 4, 8, 10-12, 14, 35-37, 44, 66, 107, 118, 148-149, 161-164, 169
milk supplies, 159-160
Mill Lane, 122
Mogg, Edward, 48
Monks, Frederick, 90, 92, 129
Monks, Hall & Co., 92-93, 180
Moore, 99, 184
Morgan, Bernard W., 147
mosslands, 41
Mote Hill, 11-12, 14-15, 36
motorways, 2, 11, 144, 158, 164, 166-168, 170, 174, 177
Mowlam, Mo, 185
Museum and Library, 95, 135-136
Museum Street, 135
music, 95, 137
nature conservation, 183-184
Naylor Street, 130
Naylor, Thomas, 87
Neild, William, 91
newspapers, 48, 105, 135
Newton Street School, 133
new town, 143, 164, 167-171, 174, 177-178, 183
New Town House, 177
Nonconformists, 55-56, 58-59, 124, 133-134
Norman Conquest, 14
Norris, Walter, 93
Northumbria, 8
nuclear industry, 181
Oakwood, 172-173
office development, 164, 181
Old Crow Inn,
Oliver Street, 85, 123
Omega project, 164
Orford: 3, 78, 145-146, 150, 158; Barracks, 148; Hall, 140; Lane, 96; Park, 184; Street, 131
Orrett, William, 76
Oswald, St, king of Northumbria, p8-9
Padgate, 74, 156-157, 162, 165, 169-170
Page, Matthew, 69
Palmyra Square, 103-104, 137, 174, 183
paper and board industry, 180
parishes and townships, 9, 34, 50-51
parks, 99, 104, 131, 149, 184
parliamentary history, 108-110, 146-147
Parr Hall, 137
Parr, Katherine, 38
Parr, Thomas, 131
Parry, Colin, 185
Parry, Tim, 184
Patten family, 52, 56, 70
Patten, Thomas, 61, 63, 67-70
Patten’s Quay, 69
Peace Centre, 185
pedestrianisation, 167
Penketh, 15, 41-42, 108, 160
People’s College, 133
Perrin family, 96
Persil, 94, 181
Pewsill, Cicely, 54
Pewterspear, 172
Pierpoint, Benjamin, 127
Pincerna, Richard, 15
pin-making industry, 82-84
Pinners Brow, 82-83
place-names, 2, 15, 24-25
plague, 8, 34-35, 123
Pococke, Richard, 68
Police Commissioners, 106, 110-117, 119-122
police force, 107, 119-121, 145, 163
police station, 119
political history, 4, 8, 11-12, 14, 96, 106-110, 146-147
Pollitt, Catherine, 51
pollution, 72-73, 77, 93, 104, 121-122, 124, 183
Poor Law Union, 107-108
population, 8, 24, 34-35, 46, 102, 108, 123, 125, 128, 144-146, 163, 165, 170, 172-173
Porter, Edward, 147
post offices, 67
pottery industry, 6-8
Poulton with Fearnhead, 50, 102
poverty and the poor, 50-53, 57, 102, 107-108, 113, 123-126, 128, 130
Powys Street, 173
prehistory, 3
Prescott, Henry, 66
Preston, James, 38
Priestley College, 154
Priestley, Joseph, 58-59
printing and publishing, 135
probate records, 29-31, 39-40
professions, 103-105
public health, 35, 84, 102, 108, 114, 122-127, 130-131
Pulforthe, John, 25
Queen Street, 117, 137
Quekett, Reverend, 132
racism, 163
railways, 2, 6, 25, 63, 65, 73-75, 92-93, 99, 102-103, 115, 162, 164, 168-169
Red Lion
refuse-collection, 106, 124
religious history, 8-11, 17-18, 22-24, 30-31, 55-59, 132-134
reservoirs, 127
Richmonds Limited, 93
Risley, 162, 169-170, 181, 184
Risley Moss, 184
river trade, 3, 6, 28, 61, 63-65, 67, 69, 92
Rixton, Randal de, 24
road widening, 113
roads and streets, repair of, 31, 50, 65, 106, 113-114
roads: arterial, 157-158; medieval, 16, 17; motorways, 2, 144, 158, 164, 166-168, 174, 177; new town, 167-170, 174, 177; pre-Conquest, 9; Roman, 6; traffic on, 62, 66-67, 100, 114, 157, 167, 177-178; turnpike, 65-66
Robinson, President Mary, 184
Robinson’s glassworks, 96-97
Roman Catholics, 55, 57, 132-134, 153
Roman period, 4-7
Rose, Edward, 59
Rothwell, Thomas, 42
royal visits, 18, 142-143, 157
rugby league, 154-155
Runcorn, 9-10, 16, 64-65
rural settlement, 3-4, 10, 24-26, 172
Russell, William, 37
Rylands Brothers, 89-90, 92, 122, 179-180, 182
Rylands family, 105
Rylands Street, 137
Rylands, John, 89
Rylands, Peter, 110, 146
sailcloth and canvas, 43-44
Sainsbury superstore, 90, 179
St Austin’s Lane, 24
St Elphin’s church, 9, 11-12, 15-17, 23, 56-57, 61, 132
St James church, Latchford, 56-57, 61
St James church, Wilderspool, 155
St Mary’s RC church, 133
St Paul’s church, Bewsey Road, 132, 149
salt trade, 6, 69, 94
Sankey Valley Park, 184
Sankey, Great and Little, 15, 35, 41-42, 64, 69, 104, 108, 145-146, 164
Saracen’s Head,
Sarah Palmer
Scandinavian period, 10, 12
schools, 29, 32-33, 56-59, 95, 108, 133-135, 140, 153-154, 165
Scotland Road, 36, 79-80, 93, 137, 174, 177
Scottish & Newcastle, 180
Seaman, Peter, 96
Second World War, 118, 161-163
Seddon, John, 58
Shawe, Samuel, 56-57
Shay, Randle, 20
Ship Yard, 125, 128
shipbuilding, 97-98
ships and shipping, 61, 63, 65, 67, 92, 97
shopping and retailing, 2, 24, 31, 39-40, 158, 160-161, 164, 167, 173-174, 177-179
shopping, out of town, 177-178
slum clearance, 103, 144, 150, 165, 169, 172
Smith, Harold, 146
Smythe, John, 26, 93-96, 143, 181
social classes, 103-105, 132, 136, 140, 151, 154, 163, 165
societies and clubs, 135, 137, 140
South Lancashire Regiment, 148-149
Southworth, 4
Southworth, Helen, 147
sports and pastimes, 136-140, 154-155
Stanley Street, 122
Stanley, James earl of Derby, 35-36
Steers, Thomas, 63
Stephen, count of Mortain, 15
Stewart, Charles, 121
Stockport Road, 151
Stockton Heath, 6-7, 36, 44, 100, 144, 151, 156-157, 160, 170, 173, 183
Stopford, Thomas, 37
street-cleansing, 113, 127
street-lighting, 106, 115
Stretton, 54, 170
Strickland, Tim, 5
Stubs, Peter, 76, 79-81
suburban growth, 103-104, 144, 150-151, 158, 172
Summerskill, Edith, 147
swimming baths, 139-140
Tanners Lane, 77-78, 103
tanning and leather industry, 77-78, 116-117, 179
Tayleur,
Taylor, Richard, 32
technical college, 153
Telford, Thomas, 158
terrorism, 184-185
textile industry, 43, 85-88, 94, 179
Thames Board Mills, 162, 180
theatre and drama, 137
Thelwall, 2, 10-11, 16, 144, 184
Thelwall Viaduct, 100, 167
Tilley, William, 119
Time Square, 177
Tinsley Wire Limited, 180
town centre redevelopment, 103, 113, 143-144, 158, 172-178
Town Hall, see Bank Hall
Town Hill, 129
town planning, 17, 19, 24, 102, 104, 113-114, 143, 150-151, 158, 164-171, 173-174, 177-178, 184
town, growth of, 150, 164, 173
town, physical character of, 16, 102-104, 113, 143, 150-151, 164
tramways, 104, 156-157
transport: buses, 156-157; carriers, 62; passenger, 64, 66, 104, 156-157; railways, 63, 65, 73-75, 99, 168-169; tramways, 104, 156-157; waterways, 62-65, 67-68, 98-100
UK Atomic Energy Authority, 181
urban renewal, 103, 113, 143-144, 173-177
urinals, 114
Vaughan, Robert, 38
Vickers, Bronwen, 184
Victoria Park, 99, 184
Wakefield, Gilbert, 59
Walkden, Robert, 38
Walker, Peter, 77
Walklet, Jonathan, 51
Walton, Alan, 25
Walton, Higher and Lower, 6, 146, 181, 183
Warburton, Geoffrey, 25
Warrington Academy, 58-59, 154, 168
Warrington Advertiser,
Warrington bombings, 184-185
Warrington bridge, 66, 99, 142-143, 149, 157, 166, 168
Warrington Castle, 14
Warrington Collegiate Institute, 154
Warrington Corporation, 70, 96, 99, 115, 117, 121, 126-127, 136
Warrington, descriptions of, 48
Warrington Development Corporation, 170
Warrington Equitable Industrial Co-operative Society, 160
Warrington Farm, 159
Warrington football ground, 155
Warrington friary, 22-25, 28, 48-49
Warrington Heath, 24, 26, 35, 137
Warrington, hundred of, 11
Warrington Regatta, 138-139
Warrington, siege of, 36, 56
Warrington Waterworks Co., 126
Warrington Wolves, 154-155
Warrington workhouse, 52-53, 107-108
wartime, 28, 35-37, 118, 148-149, 152, 161-163
water supplies, 77, 106, 124-128, 181
Wesley, John, 57
Westbrook, 172, 181
Westbrook Way, 168
Westy, 150, 158
White Bear Inn,
Whitecross, 90, 92, 104, 108, 146
Whitfield, Ethel, 88
Whitley, John, 76
Wilderspool, 4-8, 16, 56, 76, 80, 93, 99, 139, 145, 155-156, 162, 180
Williams, Thomas, 69, 147
Wilson Patten Street, 119, 174
windmill, 26
Winwick, 4, 8-10, 65, 73-74, 108, 115, 126-127, 145, 167, 177
Winwick Hospital, 151-153
Winwick Road, 103-104, 124, 129, 168
Winwick Street, 58-59, 78, 82-83, 160
wire-working industry, 82, 89-91, 122, 179-180
Wood, David, 161
woollen drapers, 31
Woolston, 54, 64-65, 99, 184
Woolworths, 161
workhouse, 52-53, 107-108, 123
Worthington, John, 43
Wright, Fred, 80
Yates, Robert, 55
7948, 135the, 97-98, the, 9776, 13772battle of, 8-93653, 28-29, 6120 |
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