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Bold Street, WARRINGTON, WA1 1DH

Cairo St Unitarian Chapel was founded in 1662 and the chapel built in 1703.

Robert Garnett was born on the 6th June 1830 in Penketh, Warrington, died on 9th Apr 1903 at Hall Nook, Penketh and was buried in Sankey. He married Mary James on 15th Sep 1859 in Stanwix, Carlisle and they had one daughter. Garnett's was a well respected firm of cabinet makers and he was a generous local benefactor to many churches. He laid the foundation stone at Penketh Methodist Church. The workshop is a familiar landmark on the Warrington skyline with its Italianate crenellated water tower. The building is still completely intact although disused. .

Taken from a safe distance outside the Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel on Cairo Street, the sign underlines the obvious state of the historic water tower. The much-loved (by some) feature of the Warrington skyline is at serious risk of collapse or demolition while debate rages over the fate of the derelict former cabinet works building.

The historic Garnett's Cabinet Works in Warrington town centre is being prepared for demolition along with its iconic water tower - a distinctive part of the town skyline for over one hundred years. The business was founded in 1824 and the water tower added in 1906. The building has been abandoned for over 60 years and has recently been a favourite of 'urban explorers' and photographers as well as 'free runners' and vandals. Now so rotten and unsafe that even these (fool)hardy souls avoid it, the factory is being demolished to make way for apartments.

Looking along St Austin's Lane, into Museum Street. It changes name where it crosses Bold Street (at the "STOP" sign). The museum is on the corner (to the right of the car). Part of the huge Unilever detergent manufacturing plant can be seen straight ahead.

City centre pub, near the Golden Square shopping centre. At one time it housed the headquarters of the Warrington Rugby League club.

The museum and library on the corner of Bold Street/Museum Street. It was founded in 1848 after Warrington's first Town Clerk, John Fitchett Marsh. The foundation stone for the current building was laid on 22 September 1855. Inside the museum you can see rare rocks, fossil footprints, an Egyptian mummy, a Roman actor's mask (the only one of its kind in Britain), botany and fish galleries, glassware and pieces of artwork and paintings. http://www.mywarrington.me.uk/tour_2.htm

From the grounds of the Unitarian Church, the derelict factory and water tower that dominates Warrington's central skyline.

The statue of Colonel O'Leary in Queens Garden's, a war memorial to the men of the South Lancashire Regiment commemorating their action in the Boer War in 1900 which contributed to the relief of Ladysmith. Interestingly, beside Palmyra Square, other local street names reflect the names of the South Lancashire regiment's battles against the French in Egypt such as Suez and Cairo.

Queen's Gardens were formerly private residential gardens in Palmyra Square and were purchased in 1897 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Warrington Borough Council and Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. They opened to the public on 17th October 1898. A wealthy local businessman, Robert Garnett donated the appropriate centrepiece, a Queen Victoria Jubilee cast iron drinking fountain by MacFarlane's of Glasgow (identical to the one on Hoylake promenade).