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unusual facts about Farnworth, Widnes



2012 Widnes Vikings season

Widnes recorded their 5th win of the season against Salford City Reds winning 46-8, Phelps, Ah Van and Hanbury all scored 2 tries each whilst McShane and Danny Craven scored a try.

Widnes kicked off their first year back in Super League with a 32-14 loss to new look Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, the Vikings looked good and took the lead with tries from Danny Craven, Patrick Ah Van and Hep Cahill with Ah Van kicking a goal however they surrendered to a late Wakefield fightback.

All Saints' Church, Winthorpe

Those members include: William Farnworth Handley, John Handley Esq., his wife Martha Story Handley, his son John Handley Esq., and Benjamin Handley Esq.

Bold Heath

Bold Heath is a hamlet (effectively a suburb of Widnes) in the English county of Merseyside.

Chestnut Lodge, Widnes

Widnes is a busier station with express trains operated by East Midlands Trains also stopping with services to Nottingham, and services operated by First TransPennine Express to Newcastle-upon-Tyne via Manchester, Leeds, York, Teesside, and Sunderland.

Colin Forsyth

Trophy final at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington, and in the 6-0 victory over Widnes in the 1979–80 John Player Trophy final at Station Road, Swinton.

Cronton

This was one of many stopping places on the way to the parish church at Farnworth.

Ditton, Cheshire

It borders Halebank to the south and west, Hough Green to the north and north west and an area just outside of Widnes town centre (the Ball o'Ditton) to the east.

Eaude

Variants of the surname are Youd, Youde, and Yould, however Youds is not part of this group.The earliest record dates from 1679 when the name appears in Farnworth near Widnes, formerly in Lancashire.

Farnworth

The library is a Carnegie Library and celebrated its centenary on the 11th April 2011.

Francis Fisher

After the war, in 1919, he stood as the Conservative candidate in the Widnes by-election in Cheshire, England, where he was defeated by Labour's Arthur Henderson.

Gary Coyne

In the 1989 post season he travelled with the Raiders to England for the 1989 World Club Challenge which was lost to Widnes.

Helen Noble

In February 2006, she fronted a bid to promote the work of the Halton Drug Action Team and its partner agencies in Widnes and Runcorn by living 'homeless' in the Halton YMCA.

Jordan James

Jordan James (born 24 May 1980 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a Welsh rugby league international Captain and player, who currently plays for Wales and for Salford of Super League, he has previously played for Crusaders, South Wales Scorpions, Swinton, Widnes, Castleford, Sheffield Eagles and Wigan.

László Bognár

Bognar fought Irish fighter Michael Gomez on his first fight of 2001 on 10 February for the WBO Intercontinental super featherweight title, in Widnes, Cheshire, England.

Listed buildings in Widnes

Before 1847, the area now occupied by the town of Widnes consisted of the hamlets of Farnworth, Cronton, Appleton, and Upton; a few scattered houses; and areas of mostly marshy farmland.

Little Lever

The Guardians made use of the workhouses at Fletcher Street in Great Bolton and Goose Cote Hill in Turton until in 1861, when a purpose built union workhouse was opened at Fishpool in Farnworth.

M61 motorway

This motorway service area was used in the filming of The Services, a pilot episode for the Farnworth-born comedian Peter Kay series That Peter Kay Thing, a spoof documentary of a day in the life of the services staff.

Municipal Borough of Widnes

Modern local government in the town of Widnes commenced with the creation of the Widnes Local Board in 1865, prior to which the town had been part of the Prescot Urban District.

Oliver Farnworth

Before appearing in Hollyoaks, Farnworth appeared in the play The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Parr, St Helens

Later extensions were made at the Mersey end, firstly to Fiddlers Ferry, then to Widnes, and at the northern end, where it was extended into what became the centre of St Helens

Runcorn Bridge

Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, a demolished bridge that crossed the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal from 1905 until 1961

Runcorn F.C. Halton

In 2000, they sold the Canal Street ground where they had played since 1918, and moved to the 11,000-seat Halton Stadium in Widnes, which was also used by the town's rugby team and Everton reserves.

Runcorn Railway Bridge

In 1861 Parliamentary approval for a bridge was obtained by the LNWR as part of building a line from Aston, to the southeast of Runcorn where it joined the line from Crewe to Warrington at Weaver Junction, to the west of Widnes, where it joined the line from Warrington to Garston at Ditton Junction.

Shaun Attwood

Attwood grew up in Widnes, Cheshire a small industrial town in northwest England, but moved to Arizona with the intent of becoming rich working as a stockbroker.

St Ambrose Church, Widnes

R. Assheton Cross M.P., during a service conducted by the Vicar of Farnworth on 8 October 1879.

Steve McCormack

In October 2007 Steve McCormack left Widnes and joined Hull Kingston Rovers as assistant coach to Justin Morgan.

However, nine days later after leaving Widnes, Steve returned as head coach with a new set up after Steve O'Connor took over the club.

Urban Freestyler

The Urban Freestyler Extreme cast features 14 current or former world champions, including Steve Peat, Mouse, Geoff Swain, Tom Kirkman, Steve Colley and John Farnworth.

West Bank Dock

In 2008, the Stobart Group had received a contract for "the demolition of an unused industrial estate and the clean up of acres of contaminated land at the West Bank Dock Estate in Widnes." from the Northwest Regional Development Agency.

Widnes railway station

Widnes Railway Station is one of two stations where Paul Simon reputedly composed the song "Homeward Bound", the other being Ditton railway station.

Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge

The first transporter bridge in the world had been opened in 1893 in Bilbao, Spain.

Willie Isa

Despite popularity on Facebook, no fans rioted when Isa scored his first (and second) Widnes try against Hull FC in a 42-16 win.

Wire FM

Wire FM is a British Independent Local Radio station that serves the Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn areas of Cheshire (the latter two towns belong to the area known as Halton), with strong commitment to local news and information.


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