The Runcorn and District Historical Society.

Last update May 28^st. 2012

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Our Society

• Link to Cheshire Archeology Day, April 20th 2013, info and booking
• Who we are and our past events
• Meetings Programme
• The Committee
• Chairman's Annual Report
• Society Newsletters
• Society Journals
• Publications for Sale
• Runcorn Bibliography
• Our Archives
• Something you would like to know?
• Can you help us?
• Other local museums and/or historical websites
• Tithe and old OS maps of Cheshire, including Runcorn.
  (from CCC website)

Runcorn & District History

• Bridgewater Canal
• Hazlehurst, Thomas
• Historical sketch of Runcorn
• Leather tanning industry in Runcorn.
• Recollections of Runcorn in 1930
• Rocksavage and Clifton
• Sandstone, Runcorn Quarries
• Sandstone, Buildings
  which have Runcorn stone in them.
• Temperance Movement in Victorian Runcorn.
• The Story of Missioner Shaw
• Weston Point School from 1856.
• A Timeline of Runcorn History
• Ethelfleda and Runcorn
• Runcorn in the 20thC.-one mans recollections
• "Whatever happened to William Walker? NEW

The Buildings in Runcorn & District

• Halton Castle
• Norton Priory
• Old Postcards of Runcorn and District,
• The Anglican Parish Church of Runcorn.
• The Roman Catholic Church in Runcorn
• Listed buildings
• Other unlisted old or historic buildings
• Listed buildings of Moore, Daresbury
  and Preston Brook
• A list of Runcorn Churches
  and Chapels past and present.

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