EAW021992 ENGLAND (1949). Weston Point, Runcorn, 1949

WELL PUMP HOUSE, WATER NOT POTABLE

Village Hall (ex-Catholic schoolhouse)

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (1851)

Chapel Row not Company's Row

St John's

Ford Bank Terrace

Quarry Bank Terrace

Quarry Bank

Wright's Quarry

Prospect Inn

Collier's Row

Weston House

Quarry railway cut

Quarry Tunnel Entrance

ICI Lab

ICI Lab

New Basin (Weaver Nav)

Old Basin (Weaver Nav)

Tennis Courts

Runcorn Methodist Church

Hillside

Company's Row

South Quarry

Site of North Quarry Cottages (Montserrat)

Isolation/Fever Hospital. Later Balfour Rd School annexe.

The Birches

SMALL WATER FALL. WELL MORE OF A SLOW TAP.

RIFLE RANGE

CAUSTIC FINISHING PLANT

ORIDGINAL CELL ROOMS Z UNIT ,ALL THE OLD CELLS BROKEN UP IN THE QARRYS BY HAND SLEDGE HAMMERS.1960s

I.C.I I.C.I CHLORINE LIQUID RAIL TANKERS

I.C.I CHLORNE RAIL TANKER.

SITE OF THE ORIGINAL WEAVER HOTEL.

STAR COTTAGE.

STAFF ONLY CANTEEN,

FORMENS CANTEEN

CANTEEN WORKERS,

PAINTERS SHOP.

JOINERS SHOP.

ORIGINAL CL DRUM BANK

ACEATYLENE PLANT.

TUNNEL EXIT.

TUNNEL EXIT,USED AS AIR RAID SHELTERS,

TUNNEL EXIT

Oil, Petrol store.

Gas Compression plant , Hydrogen, for Barrarge ballons, run by the RAF on completion September 1939 until war finished 1945 good planing??,Then used in the food industry margarine,biscuits, and the power station

Power station fresh water intake

Emergency 1 million gallon water reservoir supply to Weston Point power station boilers. It was gravity fed incase of loss of power.

Solvents plant

EC Plant

Drum making sheds

Chlorine cylinder fitting shed, later to be chlorine cylinder packing closed in 2022 demolished in 2023.

North Area electricians workshop 1950's to 2023, It was formally rail stock workshop.

Weston Point Power Station Office front door

Hutched chlorine rail tank

pit here

South Quarry used as a chemical waste by ICI

TUNNEL LINE FROME SOUTH QUARRY

TUNNEL LINE FROME SOUTH QUARRY BETWEEN HOUSES.

WATER TOWER

LANGDALE RD

WW2 PREFABRICATED BUNGALOWS OP BOTTOM BOSTON AVE, HEATH ROAD NOT BUILT THEN BOSTON AVE.

WW 2 PREFABRICATED HOUSES

NICE BIG HOLE LETS FILL IT WITH TOWN RUBBISH, AND THEN BUILD A CAFE ON IT !!

Volunteer Rifle Range target butts, still there in the late 1970s the area from the Clifton road end, across Heath road was a rifle range 600yards 1800s, marked of at one hundred yard firing lines. Heath road to the target butts 400 yards over 12 feet wide' had a world war 1 tank on it in the 1920s 30s

Original line of Sand stone tram way to Wright's basin.

Sand stone tram way to Wright's basin.

Sand stone tram way to Wright's basin.

Quarry men's cottages,Company Row demolished 1970 s

Wright's Basin for loading Sand stone from Runcorn and Weston hill from the tram way and tunnels follow line from end of Mather av, before I.C.I.

Known as balloon field,World war 2 barrage balloon site? large concrete block space out in field with large metal rings, concrete bunker part under ground , and brick shelters with blast walls Sandy lane end near top of field

Rifle range from here to the butts at Highlands road over six hundred yards.

ICI Recreation Club & Sportsfield

These houses were built by ICI for the workers

The Weaver Public House

Entrance lock to Runcorn and Weston canal. This connected the Weaver Navigation with the Bridgewater Canal. Its restoration ought to be a high priority, and should not be excessively difficult as much of the industrial property once occupying the line is now derelict.