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Bewsey Old Hall. Bewsey Old Hall is a brick built, three storey, mainly Jacobean building, incorporating or reusing elements of a former medieval hall situated on the edge of Sankey Valley Park in Warrington, Cheshire. The name 'Bewsey' is believed to have been derived from the French 'Beau Se', or 'is beautiful' and likely refers to the hall's position on the edge of Burton Wood, next to Sankey Brook.
The Sankey Viaduct in Collins Green, Burtonwood, Warrington crosses the Sankey Canal and Sankey Brook into Earlestown, Newton-le-Willows, Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside. It is a designated Grade I listed building and has been described as being "the earliest major railway viaduct in the world".
Cheshire Lines building located at the rear of Central Station.A Grade 2 listed building. Now converted into apartments, this former goods warehouse was built in 1873 for the Cheshire Lines Committee
Sign reading 'Druids Hall' where the Ancient Order Of the Druids would meet. The building is the Queens Hotel which changed it's name in 1897 for Queen Victoria's Jubilee from the original Nags Head. The archway is still there and formed part of the Lion Hotel in recent times.
Warrington Council asked us if we could restore an entrance kiosk that was previously at the entrance of the old Warrington Baths. See what we created here.
Founded in 1897. A purpose-built asylum was designed by Henry Crisp, George Oatley and William Swinton Skinner using a Compact Arrow layout and opened as the Fifth Lancashire County Asylum in January 1902. It was requisitioned for military use as the Lord Derby War Hospital during the First World War. After the care act in the 1980s, the hospital was eventually closed after declining in 1997. Demolished. Housing built a small hospital remains called Hollins Park.
The Italianate crenellated renaissance style water tower along with the spire and clock of Holy Trinity Church that stood watch over the Warrington skyline for over 100 years. Picture by Paul Jackson
The Old Ball Hello and many thanks to all the forum members who in another thread expressed interest in few photographs I took as a boy with my first camera nearly 40 years ago. In common with a lot of people I mourn the passing of some of the establishments I captured all those years ago. Sadly,...
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