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My dirty old town

I was born in Widnes in 1939 and lived there until I married my Dutch husband in 1969. I go back about once a year and always do quite a few long walk-abouts, as I can't find my way anymore by road. Some things have hardly changed but I can't recognise downtown Widnes. I attended The Commercial College,worked at several firms in Ditton Road and then at Laporte and Bowmans(Croda), used to go dancing in Warrington and Runcorn and still have quite a few friends, family and colleagues that I keep in touch with. I'm 68 now and hope to be paying another visit to Widnes this summer. I'll be visiting Victoria Park and the old Town ...read more here
A memory of Widnes contributed by Lyn Wolff-Jones

childhood in widnes

Resident from 1941 to 1949-born Widnes Nursing Home (now Nursery School)-baptised at St.Bedes R.C.Church and attended the attached school from age 4.
Swam in pond in Victoria Park. Attended double feature picture shows with my mother at the Rex?
Father worked at Widnes Foundry. Lived at nr.3 Fir Street and rode the 'fastest three wheel cycle in our street.'
Travelled many times on the Transporter Bridge.
Have revisited the town in 1966, 1986 and 2003.

A memory of Widnes contributed by Terence Gale

Delivering our daily bread

The picture shown is of Russell Road which runs left to right centre of the picture. Every day except Sunday during the early 1960s I used to deliver bread all around Weston Point and remember well reversing my Co-op van up all the avenues off Russell Road. I may be wrong but the avenue in the lower right hand corner of the picture looks like Hazel Avenue. It was a job that I loved to do, getting up in the morning to go to the bakery in Mersey Road near the old Boathouse Inn. I think the bakery is a Kwik-Fit tyre depot nowadays. This brings back happy memories of those days when there were lots of bread vans from different ...read more here
A memory of Runcorn contributed by Brian Balfe

A little unmodernised terrace house

Ah! How I well remember sharing times in a little unmodernised terraced house that my friend rented in Highlands Road in the early 1970s. The house was a little 2 up / 2 down with an outside loo & a little back garden.  Many's the time we'd pop to the PO / shop on the corner.  

She, her son & I spent many a happy hour there ~ arrh! those were the days.  We're still in touch, even though I'm now in North Wales, she's in Spain & spends much of his time dashing round the world due to his commitments to his career as an internationally famous stunt performer.
A memory of Runcorn contributed by José Riley