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Edgeworth Street, WARRINGTON, WA2 7HZ

On Edgworth Street.

Edgworth Road frontage.

Of Edgworth Road and Allan Street.

On Bewsey Street. Now occupied by Warrington Business Centre.

Nos 63 to 67 Bewsey Street.

The cladding is added to the development of the new UTC, part of the ambitious Stadium Quarter project designed to create an area of mixed use between the Halliwell Jones Stadium and Warrington Central Station. Warning; link contains Andrea Leadsom. http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/14510922.Energy_minister_says_youngsters_will_benefit_from_town_s_new_UTC/

Warrington Borough Council is building an £8.5 million business incubator in the centre of the town. The new 50,000sq ft. building will occupy the site of the former Dallam Centre in Dallam Lane. The site sits at the heart of Warrington Borough Council’s ambitious £190 million Stadium Quarter project. The new Business Incubator will provide a contemporary, high-quality workplace specifically aimed at providing prestigious accommodation for start-up businesses. The five storey state-of-the-art building will feature a café at ground floor level and offices and research and development facilities on the upper floors. Its contemporary look will be enhanced by stone and glass elevations and feature a double-height glazed entrance lobby. Funding has come from a £1.7 million European Regional Development Fund grant and £6.7 million investment from Warrington Borough Council’s capital programme. It is expected that the facility will in itself create 11 new jobs and approximately the same number during the construction period. When the facility is operational in Summer, it could house up to 100 small businesses. The Stadium Quarter project was announced by Warrington Borough Council in March 2013. The scheme will connect the bus interchange with the Warrington Wolves’ Halliwell Jones Stadium and create a new, vibrant mixed-use development comprising educational, business, leisure and housing uses. A phased programme of development over the next decade will create up to 1,000 construction jobs and nearly 4000 new permanent jobs when fully completed in 2024.

Opened in 1831 by the Warrington and Newton Railway, later part of the Grand Junction Railway and then the London & North Western Railway, this was one of the earliest railway stations in the country. It was the terminus of a short branch line from Newton Junction (now Earlestown) on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. It closed to passengers in 1837 when it was replaced by the first Bank Quay station (see Image) but continued as a coal yard until the 1960s. The course of the line north of here can still be made out on maps today. View south east towards the buffers. The line ran from bottom-left of the image, across Tanners Lane and down the side of the building, curving slightly around the back of it to the buffers, where to modern buildings now are. The 1831 station building became the ‘Three Pigeons’ pub. For more information, see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/warrington_dallam_lane/index.shtml

Market Hall, Warrington