A visit to Norton Priory – The most excavated monastery in Europe
Close to Warrington in nearby Norton stands the historical remains of Norton Priory. The site is officially the most excavated monastery in Europe.
Browsing: Local History
Plan to convert historic school house into three bedroom dwelling
PLANNING chiefs at Warrington are studying proposals to convert a former school house, built in memory of two children who died tragically more than 160 years ago, into a three-bedroomed house.
When Time Team came to town in search of the Romans
It was in the summer of 1998 when I first became interested in the possibility that the Romans had once occupied land close to Rixton and Warburton sometime between the 1st to 4th century AD.
New book published on local Cold War veteran who guarded Nazi’s Rudolph Hess and Albert Speer
LOCAL author Richy Sutton has published a new book on Warrington based- Cold War Veteran Derek Vernon, who guarded notorious Nazi’s Rudolph Hess and Albert Speer at Berlin’s Spandau Prison.
From pure evil to the town of peace – remembering the Warrington bombing
THIRTY-THREE years ago today, the history of our town changed forever – as peace triumphed over pure evil following the Warrington bombing, when two bombs planted by the IRA in bins on Bridge Street exploded, claiming the lives of two innocent children.
Manners Maketh Man: Education in 1970s Warrington
SOME lessons arrive quietly. Others land with the weight of a hammer. And sometimes the words that shape us come long before we’re old enough to understand their full meaning.
Movie-makers prepare to celebrate 90 years of chronicling town’s history
ON October 22, 1936 – 11 days before the birth of BBC TV – six men met in Warrington and formed an organisation that in the years since has produced a unique collection of films and videos chronicling the town’s history.
A Visit to the ancient manor of the Mainwarings of Over Peover
Warrington is a town steeped in history dating back to the earliest times. Indeed, throughout the centuries members of the Mainwaring family were prominent landowners across Cheshire including owning land in Warrington.
When Warrington lost the milkman: A quiet disappearance that changed everything
There was a time in Warrington when the day didn’t begin with an alarm clock, a phone screen, or the hum of central heating. It began with a sound so ordinary, so woven into the fabric of daily life, that no one imagined it could ever vanish.
Birchwood Park marks 80 years at the heart of the UK’s nuclear story
BIRCHWOOD Park in Warrington is marking a significant milestone this year, celebrating 80 years since the first meeting of the UK’s atomic energy programme took place at the Risley site in a disused canteen.