What a wonderful event for the borough today with this engaging piece of artwork by Tony Mallon called 'Winds of Change'.
Widnes is now the proud owner of this huge piece of public art which stretches along the New St walkway from beginning to end.
A proud day for Widnes heritage
#ThrowbackThursday This rather blurred photo is important for anyone reminiscing about town centre shops. Albert Rd in Widnes 1950. The coach is one of a fleet operated by Sexton & Scragg by Clayton's Undertakers. A search of the newspapers brings up an article from 1991 which may be of interest.
#ThrowbackThursday It felt as cold as this yesterday! Photograph showing a boat, the A B Burton, frozen in the canal at Spike Island in 1948 whilst on its way to the Sankey Sugar Works at Earlstown
#ThrowbackThursday Photograph of Victoria Road, Widnes looking towards Widnes Central Station. The photograph was taken from the tower of St Paul's Church in about 1905. Looks a bit like a Lowry!
From the Bob Martindale collection
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'The Big Photo Sort'. All photo negatives from our recent rescue of the Weston Point Studios. Since then 50k have already been processed and 18k are scanned (and they weren't even part of this)!
Thank you to Becka, Erin, Hannah, Heather, Megan, Pam, Pat, Sandra and Tiffany who all worked so hard.
#ThrowbackThursday Electro-plated silver on brass handle, originally the driving handle from the car of the Widnes Transporter Bridge. From the Halton BC Town Hall Collection and is one of 1,025 objects from there viewable on the HHP website - Check it out! haltonheritage.co.uk/halton-herit...
'VERA' has been at it again. And her identity is being teased in this Christmas edition. More on the beauty contest next week when we find out who won the holiday to Switzerland! Exciting stuff!
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We're still here! Our virtual museum is having some downtime. Should be back up and running soon :)
#ThrowbackThursday View of the two bridges across the Mersey following demolition of the Transporter Bridge in 1965. Foreground is the Bridgewater Canal and Waterloo Bridge. Canal then blocked off and the flight of locks down to the docks on the Manchester Ship Canal filled in (known as Top Locks)
#ThrowbackThursday Photograph of West Bank Dock in about 1965. The boat entering the dock is the 'Donau', all vessels entering the dock on flood tide had to enter stern first.
#ThrowbackThursday Another from the Bob Martindale Collection. This time a lovely photo of the Silver Jubilee Bridge from the Runcorn side taken c1986. #silverjubileebridge #widnes #runcorn #runcornbridge
Take a look at other objects in our virtual museum:
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From the @catalystarchives.bsky.social Collection - view from West Bank towards Runcorn early to mid 1980s
#ThrowbackThursday Abel's boatyard, West Bank between the Transporter Bridge and the Britannia railway bridge. The Ruth Bate was the last boat to be built in the yard before it was demolished to make way for the new road bridge. Launched on 18 March 1952.
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#ThrowbackThursday Pin and thread artwork forming an image of the Silver Jubilee Bridge from West Bank in Widnes, produced by artist Debbie Smith who was commissioned to create this work, 'Jubilee Bridge', for the exhibition 'Material Evidence' at the Brindley in 2009. Part of Town Hall Collection
Motor racing gets the ICI logo ... in 1992
#ThrowbackThursday Ships moored at Weston Point, Runcorn. One of the ships is named 'Shamrock'. She can also be seen loading at ICI Wallerscote Works around 1935
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#ThrowbackThursday Photo taken by ICI Weston Point Studios showing Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey Aerial View 1996 Fiddlers Ferry in the distance.
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A date for your diaries! Saturday 26 July 2025 Runcorn to Celebrate the completion of the Landmark DUKESFIELD MURALS. A Free Community Festival - be there! #dukesfieldmurals #societytaproomsruncorn #runcornhistoricalsociety #watphrasinghruncorn #unlockruncorn #reconnectingruncorn @hazlehurstart
Dulcine - where's she now, eh! Dulcine was shown to have 200 times the sweetening power of sugar made with phosgene amongst other ingredients! Funny to think that the research into this was nearly 100 years ago. ICI with their fingers in every [apple] pie :) #iciarchives #unitedalkalico
#ThrowbackThursday Photograph showing wagon belonging to the United Alkali Company, outside Sullivan's offices (later Pilkington Sullivan). The products on display are ones packed by Greenbank Works c1920. Also - here are some women workers from Greenbank Works!
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Daily Telegraph knows a good thing when they see it :)
The women from Greenbank Works Widnes showing the importance of having first aid close at hand in 1930 #greenbankworks #icipilkingtonsullivan #iciarchives #womenworkers
The best photo you will see today! What a joy this lovely photo is of the female canteen workers at Brunner Mond Lostock Works. Thought to be around 1910, this image is taken from a 6 x 8 glass plate and is as clear as day! #brunnermond #lostockworks #womenworkers #iciarchives
We're here folks - Celebrating all things Halton Heritage related from the North West of England, mostly Runcorn and Widnes 🌉
