Bazj Posted September 18, 2016 Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 Anyone know when the first Warrington transporter bridge was dismantled? (Or at least remember how far back it wasn't there!) Steve Janice Hayes at the museum would probably be able to help. I have a few photos showing the original one being dismantled as it was part of a building on one side of the river that appeared in a Crosfields Chronicle dated spring 1958 so I'm guessing late 1957-early 1958? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted September 18, 2016 Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 This is Crosfields original transporter being used in 1951 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted September 18, 2016 Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 This is it being built between 1904-1914 sometime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted September 18, 2016 Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 and this is an aerial photo taken in 1928 showing the position it occupied. Liverpool road can be seen towards bottom left 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 The terraced houses on the bottom right facing the camera were where i spent my early years. Number 64. They were fairly big for terraced with 3 storeys from what i can remember. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeborn John Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 Bowling Green pub, complete with bowling green, at the bottom, that'll be Crossfields theatre, lately a new built supermarket, bottom right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 Gartons top left with a steam engine pulling into Bank Quay lower station!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted September 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 Baz re your last photo which shows the bowling green pub, bowling green triangle etc would the little road going down at the left of the triangle be the old Green Street before it was sort of cut off and a dead end as it is today?Also would you happen to have a photo showing a bit more of the bottom left of that pic from the same time or either earlier/later ? Fingers crossed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 Dizzy you've had me turning my head upside down, studying Google maps etc trying to get orientated. I quite often walk into town through Sankey Bridges and past the old Bowling Green. Where the actual bowling green (not the pub building, the bowling green itself) was, is now the Crossfield roundabout, and the road you identify is Green St, which is sort of a dead end street now. I may be wrong but it's time I went to bed!!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted September 20, 2016 Report Share Posted September 20, 2016 don't think the bowling green was that far down asp. from memory the crosfields island was what was the village green. The church on the left is sacred heart church Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted September 20, 2016 Report Share Posted September 20, 2016 It's a pity the picture doesn't extend a bit further down. Like I said my brain was doing contortions last night trying to visualise it............................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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