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Local History

Discover the Story of Warrington and its people across the centuries as you view the objects and paintings around the galleries.

Southworth Hall barrow

 

Unlock the secrets of Warrington's earliest inhabitants through our archaeology collections and the evidence for Bronze Age Man and the Roman settlement at Wilderspool.

 

 Southworth Hall Bronze Age Barrow                                                                                   Friar Penketh                                                         

 

 

Find the evidence of Medieval Warrington and its Friary and see the document ready for the signature of Friar Penketh... the only Warrington person mentioned in a play by Shakespeare!

 

 

 

 

Preparing the Friary manuscript

 

 

Blackburne portrait

 

 

 

Decide whether you would have fought for King or Parliament in the 17th Civil War and view the curious Plague Stone from Latchford.

Meet John Blackburne of Orford Hall; the first man in the North West of England to grow a pineapple...in Orford!

 

 

 

 

 Portrait of John Blackburne

 Take a walk around 18th Century Warrington as seen in Donbavand's painting of 1772

Donbavand

                                    Can you find Warrington's Town Hall and the old Warrington Bridge?

Step into The Time Tunnel and go back to Victorian Warrington.

Toyshop

 

 

 

Find out about Law and Order and hang around with a highwayman.

  •  See a rare early fire engine and the ever-popular Penny Farthing bicycle.

  • Go back to your childhood in the Victorian nursery.

  • Enjoy the children's hands-on history area including touch box, dressing up area and wooden toys.

 

 

Model Victorian toyshop in the Time Tunnel

 

Discover Warrington's Industrial Past in the Changing Warrington Gallery

Marvel at the beauty of Warrington -made glass and find out about working conditions for child pin makers; tanners and Warrington's wire workers and Men of Steel. 

Wire workers

 

Ryland's wire workers

 

The Museum also has a large archive of local photographs and many of these can be seen on our Digital Image Archive or via

www.1museumstreet.co.uk/

Don't forget to visit Warrington Library's Archives and Local Studies room to find out more about the history of YOUR town.

 

 
 

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