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Widnes in Cheshire a Township like no other. The first thing we read about Widnes was that it was flat, open country, devoid of anything beautiful… and we immediately got a little defensive. There’s a gorgeous river running through town, there are red sandstone boulders and natural clays around town, and there are plenty of…
Macclesfield is one of those towns which people have heard of but often have no idea where it is or what it is famous for. Well, quickly we can tell you it’s in Cheshire famous for silk and its Georgian town hall It also has a football club that has been through the wringer but…
Join us for the Five Minute Spare’s Walk Round Birkenhead, everything you ever wanted to know about the town, and some stuff you weren’t that fussed about. Ok, dad joke aside let’s get Somewhere in Wirral, Merseyside, there is a town named Birkenhead. Within that town, hundreds of years of history lie wrapped in…
Chester the city with a history spanning two millennia. Chester, long since a city in its own English Shire, has a history longer than that of sliced bread! It goes all the way back into pre-historic times, but we obviously have no records of this. What we do know is that it officially started as…
Crewe, in Cheshire, home to one of the Worlds most significant Railway station and in fact is one of few towns originally built expressly to accommodate railway workers. These navvies as they were known then were fundamental in the construction of Britain’s Rail Network. Add to this the fact that Rolls Royce Cars were built…
Accrington the internationally renowned purveyor of incredibly dense bricks. Seriously the famed Accrington Brick is iron-hard and has been used as the foundation of landmark buildings as famous and diverse as the Empire State Building in New York and Blackpool Tower! However, that’s not all the town has to offer and it is somewhere deserving…
Craig Taylor