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A vessel passes close to Walton Locks and Warrington Wharf before negotiating the Chester Road Swing Bridge.

Councillor Frederick Monks of the Monks Hall Iron Foundry presented the Town Hall Gates to Warrington on Walking Day, 28 June 1895.

Warrington owes its regional and national importance to its role as a crossing point over the River Mersey.

A lone vehicle heads towards Warrington town centre down the new Wilderspool Bridge.

This simple 30-foot high granite obelisk was originally unveiled in November 1925 to commemorate Warrington's servicemen lost in the 1914-18 War.

Warrington's Town Hall was originally Bank Hall, built between 1749-50 by the world-famous architect James Gibbs as a home for a local businessman, Thomas Patten.

Known as the Academy because it was home to the Warrington Academy in 1757, the building today is home to the Warrington Guardian Newspaper.

The parish church interior enshrines much of Warrington's history through its memorials.

Bridge Street was clearly Warrington's shopping centre in the 1950s.

Sir Thomas Boteler, lord of the manor of Warrington, left provision in his will of 1526 to establish a school 'whereby men's sons might learn grammar to the intent that they might learn to know Almighty

Separated from the old town of Warrington by the Mersey and also (since the 1890s) by the Manchester Ship Canal, with Thelwall we are now back in that part of the county that was always Cheshire.

It was the home of Gilbert Greenall, who had earned his fortune as a brewer in Warrington.

With the widening of Bridge Street from the 1880s, the old Warrington Academy was again revealed and preserved.

For example, one of the locks at Latchford (in the south of Warrington) is 600 feet long and 65 feet wide.

Whenever the Chester Road and Northwich Road swing-bridges are opened to allow ships to pass along the Manchester Ship Canal, Warrington grinds to a halt; traffic tails back for hundreds of yards either

By the 1950s there were still open fields near Hillock Lane as Woolston slowly began to develop from a farming community to a suburb of Warrington.

There were different types of craft employed; the basic packet on the Warrington-Manchester run carried passengers at 1s a head.

The wool shop to the left occupied the former offices of William Beamont, Warrington's first mayor in 1847.

In 1968 Warrington was designated as a New Town, and a Development Corporation was created to create a 'prosperous dynamic town of opportunity and innovation'; new communities were built in the Padgate

Locks, the 'Tarantia' from Glasgow is about to pass under the 72ft 6in high Latchford railway viaduct, which was built to carry the London and North Western Railway line from Manchester via Stockport and Warrington

A suburb to the east of Warrington, this is still a mainly residential street.

A steamer heads away from Manchester Docks, passing the swinging Knutsford Road bridge near Warrington.

Built in 1883-84, St Paul's Church sits just beside Warrington's library and former Techincal College.

Other tramway systems closing that year included Aberdare, Burnley, Darwen, Erith, Norwich, Preston, Warrington and the short-lived system at York.