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Greenall's gin distillery off
Bridge Street.
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Armitage & Rigby's Cockhedge Mill was the largest cotton mill
in Warrington. Mrs E. Hatton worked there at the age of
13 and recalls: Work began at 6 every morning
and finished at 5.30 pm Monday to Friday and 12 noon Saturday.....we
had half an hour for breakfast and one hour for dinner......the
gates were closed at 6 o'clock and everybody who was late
their name was taken.....No tea breaks and if you was seen
talking we were sent home
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Tanning was an old and important industry in Warrington. The
earliest tanneries were in the town centre but in the mid-19th
century
these were replaced by large tanneries on the outskirts of
town. The photo shows Bishop's wharf with barrels of hides
being unloaded, ready to be taken to the nearby Howley Tanneries.
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Tannery workers scraping excess skin and fat from the
underside of animal skins, which were rotting and smelled
dreadful. Imagine a hot summer's day....
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Warrington steel works
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Joseph Crosfield started Bank Quay Soap Works in 1815. Demand
for soap grew in the 19th century and the factory prospered.
Workers
were treated to excursions to Llangollen and Blackpool, and
had their own brass band (above).
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Royal Court Theatre staff in 1908, a time when many people were
in full-time work at the age of 12, and when theatres and
music halls attracted huge audiences..
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Over 100 people worked at the General Post Office on Springfield
Street, built 1906. The post-boys are cross-legged on the
front row
- click on the picture to find the Post Office Cat!
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Private horse-buses were replaced by Warrington Corporation trams
from 1902 onwards. The electric tram network ran through
the town centre and into the suburbs. Motor-buses driven by cheap
petrol replaced the trams by the end of the 1930's.
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Warrington's first
town crier was appointed in 1723 with a blue and red uniform
and a silver-laced
coked hat. After a lapse, the
post of town crier was revived in 1877, but was dispensed with
in 1902.
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Demolition workers on Bridge Street. The block of buildings in
the centre is being pulled down and the debris removed by horse
and cart.
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Navvies and engineers working on the new bridge, officially opened
by King George V in July 1913.
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"Builders of a Great Spire" - the architects of the new St Elphin's
Church, re-built between 1859 and 1867 with a 281 - foot
spire.
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Hospital staff outside Warrington Infirmary, the nurses in anklel-length
skirts and starched caps and aprons.
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Queen Street Fire Station opened in 1879. The Warrington Fire
Establishment was founded in 1828. Before this date companies
only put out fires on insured premises, leaving
others to burn down. The steam driven horse engines in this
photo were called 'Major' (purchased 1880) and 'Captain'
(purchased 1893)
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A Warrington policeman around 1860. This is one of the original
'Peelers' or 'Bobbies', named after Home Secretary Sir Robert
Peel. The new regulation police helmets were issued soon after
this photo was taken. This officer was one of just nine policeman,
based in the Bridewell in Irlam Street. The town numbered over
24,000 in 1860.
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