Features
Fiddlers Ferry
The print below was reproduced in a 1970's copy of "Industrial Past", in which, as you
can read, the artist had placed an advertisement for the series of Warrington scenes he
had drawn. Copies of the prints are often to be found on sale in the town still.
A fair amount of artistic licence has been taken to produce the scene illustrated.
The chances that all the forms of transport would have been visible from the viewpoint at
the same time would have been very slight - especially as there was only a two-year period
during which it could ever have occurred. As stated, the railway extension which brought
the trains alongside the Sankey from Widnes to Warrington opened on February 1st 1853,
but the Bank Quay Foundry, where the iron ships were built, ceased shipbuilding in 1855.
New Old Map
Alan Godfrey has extended his range of reproduction Ordnance Survey maps by the addition of
Sheet 107.4 - a 1906 issue of St Helens South West (includes Eccleston Hill, West Park,
Croppers Hill, Ravenhead Plate Glass Works, &c.). Also featured is an extract from the 1918
Kelly's Directory of St Helens, with a Description of the area by SCARS Executive Member,
and local Historical author, Mary Presland.
Issue 3.11 Index
Contact address: www@scars.demon.co.uk