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Runcorn, Transporter Bridge c.1955
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The car carrying vehicles and foot passengers usually took up to four minutes to cross from one side to the other. It was 55 ft long, 24ft wide and could carry 300 passengers and, to begin with, four two-horse wagons. There were numerous tolls (it cost 5d for an adult corpse to cross the bridge!). On the Widnes side of the bridge the world's first double- decker bus service was started in 1909 especially to meet passengers from the bridge and give them a ride into the centre of the town.

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A Selection of Memories from Runcorn

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Runcorn

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Hillside Av
I think this picture is of hillside avenue, I lived at number five with my mum and dad Mr & Mrs Wood. The memories of years passed still make me smile of the fun we had on little hill and big hill as it was called then. Catching rabbits on the hill, making fires in happy valley and cooking them with spuds that we had dug from the farmers fields ( I think was Toffs R Gregory's). Scratching are names and date's into ...see more
Runcorn, Weston Point c1955
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Ferry Hut By Neville Lang
When I went to Holy Trinity School in the 1950.s the school class was49 children 1 teacher. when we had a different subject we just changed books. one of the highlights of school was going to ferry hut where we had a drawing lesson drawing the church opersite in Widnes.which was in Lancashire in them days and then on to a new school the grange.the down side is we left school at 14 years old and then started ...see more
Runcorn, the Two Bridges 1929
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Sprinch Yard
i was born in 1946 off Latham avenue I can remember the big pond as we called it being drained at the bottom Latham avenue, and old wooden boats exposed and burnt...to build spur road ? My dad worked at old quay offices in Mersey road and he used to play hell if I swam near ferry hut In sixties it was new inn then into the scala... Good times Went to Victoria road primary... Don't know anyone in Runcorn now... Moved out when new town moved in .
Runcorn, Greenway Road from the Memorial c1955
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Frothy Coffee
I lived in Runcorn until I was 8 (1960s) and I remember going into town on the bus with my mother. We would always stop at "Le Rendezvous" (which as a child I remember thinking was a very strange word) and she would get a "frothy coffee" (we didn't call it cappuccino back then). It was served in a pyrex cup and saucer. I would usually have Horlicks (made in a specially branded Horlicks whisk machine).
Runcorn, Market Hall & Bus Station c1965
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