Peeps in the Past: Warrington (A Changing Town)

North West Video (1998)
Narrated by Paul Brown - Granada Television

[@danjackson3672]

"Traffic at Bridgefoot is chaotic"....good to see nothing's changed 40 years later

[@IslandPink]

Interesting stuff - triggered a few memories. It's a sad to watch in some ways though - you can see everything that was interesting about Warrington being bulldozed away, stage by stage.

[@Flint_Westwood]

That was certainly a trip down memory lane. I recall participating in the 1986 Walking day with my Scout group. Alas I didn't see myself or my friends in the video! I moved away from Warrington in the late 80's and relocated to the North East where I remain to this day (beautiful part of the world if you haven't visited). This video triggered some happy memories though that seem like a lifetime ago yet strangely, almost like it was yesterday. Thanks for the upload 👍

[@chrisleigh8989]

Traffic has never changed I see. They have now, in 2021, built another bridge. So Warrington has a special connection to bridges? So it took from the 1950s til 1986 to get a second bridge over the Mersey, and from 1986 til 2021 to get the third. Warrington town planners are only happy when they're building roundabouts and flats.

[@RogueWraith909]

34:37 and 40:31... Two faces I know very very well. My grandad and my mum, brought back a few really good memories, I was 4-5 at the time.

[@Fonziedaz1]

Wow 👏 it was only a spek on the horizon in those days 😳 hahaha 😆

[@Fonziedaz1]

Who are you please

[@Fonziedaz1]

You didn't got to Grappenhall Hall residential school in Warrington did you

[@duxberry1958]

the K4 Phone Box / Post Box is a Grade 2 listed building and is still there its just had a paint job

[@dlbapc]

And now even Mr Smiths is a 'peep in the past' 🔥🚒

[@johnmahoney2904]

dlbapc i’m learning history of that and I’m sad about it

[@rayenbow3281]

I'm not, it was a much better place before Mr Smiths took over the building. It used to be a cinema called the ABC. @@johnmahoney2904

[@rayenbow3281]

@Wuhan Virus kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5mUeKmKgZ1op6s 02:23

[@evo8nut]

Sad but true 👊💚

[@panda-wk8mv]

these are excellent slices of history, the only thing that throws me is the constant change of tense, what is with that?

[@duxberry1958]

i go around taking fotos of the Area

[@zebedee6748]

Makes me sooooo mad

[@zebedee6748]

What a bloody horrible video. No progress has ans eve will happen.