Childhood memories tend to come back with a soft glow. Long summers, cloudless skies, pavements hot enough to fry an egg, and the distant jingle of an ice cream van drifting across Winwick Road. Those are the memories that feel warm and safe.
VIDEO: A new community-led heritage and archaeology project is underway, exploring one of Warrington’s most intriguing historical mysteries — the possible remains of the town’s long-lost medieval castle.
AS World Cup fever kicks off today, 10 years ago 250 people packed into the Lymm Hotel for a night of celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the time that the hotel was briefly home to the 1966 Brazil World Cup squad.
It was way back in the late 1970s when I first became interested in the history that surrounds us and what evidence may lay just inches below our feet.
There was a time — not so very long ago — when the streets of Warrington echoed with the coughs, splutters and heroic last gasps of cars that had absolutely no right to still be on the road.
WARRINGTON’S Sir Thomas Boteler CE High School celebrated the 500th anniversary of the school’s founding with a commemorative service at St Elphin’s Church.
Close to Warrington in nearby Norton stands the historical remains of Norton Priory. The site is officially the most excavated monastery in Europe.
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.
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.
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.
