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Dist:0.3km<br/>Architect Nicholas Rank, dedicated November 1990.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The full name for this building is The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Young People's Centre after two children were killed in Warrington town centre on March 20th 1993.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>After many years of not bothering, the railway authorities are clearing the trackside of rampant vegetation. St James' Vicarage is the white-fronted house on the right.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>View from the A57 road of the St Helens to Widnes canal at Sankey Valley.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>St Helens to Widnes canal at Sankey Valley,picture taken from the A57 Sankey Way.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>The US Base of RAF Burtonwood once occupied the land to the right, with a housing area, known as the 'Tobacco Houses' opposite the thicket of trees on the left.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The free boat rides were very popular.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The Sankey Canal was England's first modern canal, being opened in 1757. Sadly it was closed in 1963. Bridges were built over it, and it silted up. In 1981 Warrington Borough Council and the Warrington New Town Development Corporation attracted funds to carry out limited restoration, including this section on the boundary between Warrington and Great Sankey. The Sankey Canal Restoration Society held a Festival there in September 1993, transporting three boats to it by road. They were the first such craft to sail the canal for over 30 years.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The map still shows a Level Crossing where the roundabout is. This carried the line serving the US Base at RAF Burtonwood. A new road, veering left takes its place. The main road to the base, Burtonwood Road is now intersected at several points and is no longer a through road. The entrance to the Burtonwood Repair Depot was beyond the tree on the right, with the base's main gates being a few hundred yards north. Housing is increasingly covering the site.
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