EAW044943 ENGLAND (1952). The Runcorn Railway Bridge and Widnes Transporter Bridge, Widnes, 1952

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Title [EAW044943] The Runcorn Railway Bridge and Widnes Transporter Bridge, Widnes, 1952
Reference EAW044943
Date July-1952
Link
Place name WIDNES
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 350961, 383562
Longitude / Latitude -2.736707783452, 53.346407473318
National Grid Reference SJ510836

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Ginger79
Saturday 26th of June 2021 07:23:10 PM

Ginger79
Saturday 26th of June 2021 07:22:43 PM

Ginger79
Saturday 26th of June 2021 07:22:21 PM

Ginger79
Saturday 26th of June 2021 07:20:48 PM
Cars and trucks waiting to use the widnes transporter bridge at widnes

Ginger79
Saturday 26th of June 2021 07:20:10 PM
Cars waiting to use the widnes transporter bridge at Runcorn

Ginger79
Saturday 26th of June 2021 07:19:29 PM
Abels boat yard

Ginger79
Saturday 26th of June 2021 07:18:51 PM
Widnes Transporter Bridge Office

Ginger79
Saturday 26th of June 2021 07:16:04 PM
Wigg Island was known as Randle Works during WW2. A Ministry of Supply Factory (MOSF) it manufactured vesicant chemicals such as mustard gas (a viscous liquid) and stored it in 5 ton 'pots' buried in the ground. Randle also had filling (charging) facilities to fill vesicants into aerial bombs and dispensers and artillery shells. Bulk vesicants were shipped by rail tanker to Valley Works in Rhydymwyn, North Wales for storage and filling there.

JUNGLEJIM
Wednesday 20th of January 2021 11:45:58 AM
Location of a 2ndWW Barrage Balloon operating site.

redmist
Thursday 23rd of July 2020 08:42:21 PM
wiggs works mustard gas factory

Ginger79
Tuesday 16th of July 2019 12:32:15 AM
Located somewhere near this marker was the site of a 2ndWW Barrage Balloon, with associated buildings.

redmist
Thursday 28th of March 2019 12:41:20 AM
CASTLE ROCK, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states "In 915 Ethelfleda's fortified sites on the extreme border of her country - Runcorn on the Mersey."

Bottom Yard
Saturday 9th of March 2019 04:17:14 PM
KEMET WORKS. NO NOT WIGGS. SIX PINS ON THIS ONE PIC ARE WRONG BY OTHER.

Bottom Yard
Friday 8th of March 2019 02:50:51 PM
RUNCORN SHRIMPING, FISHING BOATS,THEN

Bottom Yard
Friday 8th of March 2019 02:32:01 PM
FERRY HUT ,(RUNCUNS, RIVIERA)

Bottom Yard
Friday 8th of March 2019 02:30:22 PM
THIS HUT WAS BUILT WHEN CANAL WAS BEING DUG, YOU CAN STILL SEE RAIL LINES USED FROM THE ACTUAL CANAL EXCAVATION. THEN

Bottom Yard
Friday 8th of March 2019 02:02:32 PM
COCK BOAT LOCAL, SMALL BOAT TO BE PC??

Bottom Yard
Friday 8th of March 2019 01:46:46 PM
ESTIMATING THE DAMAGE, ALL WORK BY HAND TOOLS, NO POWER TOOLS, SAWS, DRILLS, MAIN TIMBER 30CM X 30CM SO HAND DRILLING 30MM HOLES, MAKING JOINTS LIFTING ALL HARD GRAFT. NOTICE COCK BOAT, SMALL BOAT, SCULLED BY HAND.

Bottom Yard
Friday 8th of March 2019 01:44:49 PM
BOAT REPAIR YARD.

Bottom Yard
Friday 8th of March 2019 01:29:57 PM
wrong again as The Book Mersey Flats And Flatmen by Michael Stammers states that by 1952 Coopers of West Bank Widnes became a boat breakers not a Repair yard

Ginger79
Saturday 26th of June 2021 07:00:09 PM
FUNERAL SERVICE.

Bottom Yard
Friday 8th of March 2019 01:28:03 PM
WIGGS I.C.I. WORKS,WWII HUSH HUSH WORKS, MUSTERD GAS, AND OTHERS,

Bottom Yard
Monday 21st of January 2019 02:58:00 PM
FLOUR MILLS. BOAT YARD,AND SLIPS 2 OFF, TO THE RIGHT LOWER BUILDINGS, TO BOTTOM OF IRWELL STREET

Bottom Yard
Monday 21st of January 2019 02:47:01 PM
BATTER GANGS HUTS, CANAL BANKS MAINTENANCE, WOODEN STAGE ETC.

Bottom Yard
Friday 28th of December 2018 03:14:46 PM
DIESEL FUAL STORAGE TANK FOR DREDGING TUGS, SAME FUAL HOSE AS GARAGES HAVE, STILL WE WHERE GETTING PAYED FOR IT 30MINS OR MORE.

Bottom Yard
Friday 28th of December 2018 03:08:42 PM
ABEL'S SHIP BUILDER AND REPAIRE YARD.

Bottom Yard
Friday 28th of December 2018 02:58:34 PM
NOT ABEL'S YARD BUT OLD QUAY YARD THE SLIP IS STILL IN PLACE, NOW THE DECKS

Bottom Yard
Friday 28th of December 2018 02:56:06 PM
SALVAGE GEAR STORE, COKE FOR THE OFFICE FIRES TIPPED OUTSIDE 10 TONS U RIGHT THEY NOT MOVE IT INSIDE OR CARRY IT TO THE OFFICES OR PUT IT ON THE FIRE OFTEN WONDERED IF THEY WOULD FREEZE BEFOR PUTING SOME ON.

Bottom Yard
Friday 28th of December 2018 02:39:27 PM
DIVING SPARES STORE AND LIFTING SALVAGE GEAR STORE.

Bottom Yard
Friday 28th of December 2018 02:27:33 PM
DREGING DEPT SUPERS OFFICE

Bottom Yard
Friday 28th of December 2018 02:24:12 PM
NO MANS LAND SHIP CANAL DREDGING DEPT, NOT RUNCORN DOCKS

Bottom Yard
Friday 28th of December 2018 02:22:48 PM

Ginger79
Saturday 9th of April 2016 12:02:10 PM
Small Coaster At Runcorn docks

Ginger79
Saturday 9th of April 2016 12:01:32 PM
Hello This was called No Man's land, Runcorn docks is out of the pic. and the coaster is part of the Manchester ship canal dredging department.

Bottom Yard
Sunday 31st of December 2017 06:15:19 PM
NO MANS LAND SHIP CANAL DREDGING DEPT, NOT RUNCORN DOCKS

Bottom Yard
Monday 21st of January 2019 02:49:01 PM
WIGG Works Runcorn Mustard Gas Factory

Ginger79
Saturday 9th of April 2016 12:00:07 PM
NOT NOT WIGGS, KEMET WORKS.WHY YOU KEEP PUTING WRONG INFO ALL OVER THIS SITE DOZENS OF PICS??,

Bottom Yard
Monday 21st of January 2019 03:06:25 PM
All Saints' Church, Runcorn, 28/05/2015

Class31
Saturday 9th of April 2016 11:57:38 AM
Coaster on The Manchester Ship Canal

Ginger79
Saturday 9th of April 2016 10:42:47 AM
west bank power station

Ginger79
Saturday 9th of April 2016 10:41:58 AM
west bank power station

Ginger79
Saturday 9th of April 2016 10:41:55 AM
Accident hospital west bank widnes

Ginger79
Saturday 9th of April 2016 10:41:08 AM
St Mary's Church West Bank Widnes

Ginger79
Saturday 9th of April 2016 10:39:36 AM
Widnes Transporter Bridge car

Ginger79
Saturday 9th of April 2016 10:38:47 AM

User Comment Contributions

Runcorn, 28/05/2015

Class31
Saturday 9th of April 2016 11:56:20 AM