ON May 1 we are calling on the town to turn back the clock to mark St Rocco's 30th anniversary.
And so to jog your memory of what life was like 30 years ago, here's 25 things you will remember if you grew up in Warrington.
Let us know your other memories of the town below.
1. Asking your mum and dad to drive past the American air base so you could look at cool jeeps and tanks
2. Going to Fine Fare in Birchwood shopping centre
3. Being dragged to Latifs on the Market to buy school shirts, jumpers and PE kit.
And then wondering why every other school’s rugby shirts were so much better than yours
4. Looking forward to the circus visiting. Largely so you could stare at elephants casually grazing on the former Laporte’s club (now David Lloyds) on Sankey Way
5. Going to the grotto under the old Fish Market at Golden Square at Christmas to meet Father Christmas
6. Going to the fair on Victoria Park after walking day with your mates. Then hearing rumours for the next three days about how people had been stabbed there. Of course nobody was ever really stabbed
7. Staring at the old white cottage on Sankey Valley Park and desperately hoping you would see the ghostly woman so you could tell your mates
8. Playing on the dart board, pirate ship and spider’s web at Sankey Valley and thinking they were all really big. Now realising it was not that big after all
9. Spending Saturdays in Warrington town centre looking round Our Price, HMV, Virgin and Woolies and Smiths at the CDs and tapes. And of course flicking through all the posters. Which were all the same in all the shops
10. Being dragged to Woolies with your mum and dad to get your passport photo done
11. Going to the Odeon on Buttermarket Street and having an ice cream from the lady at the front after the cartoons and before the main film started
12. Going to Junior Smith’s in your best shell suit
13. Living in a town where Ikea was not the most famous thing
14. Going to Wilderspool on Boxing day or New Year’s Day and hoping your dad had brought a flask of whisky with him for the cold.
15. You loved living in the town which made Greenall Whitley. Remember the advert?
16. Playing out at an abandoned small pox hospital or playing in the car park of a truck stop cafe on Liverpool Road with no adult supervision...what's the worst that could happen.....
17. Buying rasins and nuts from a shop composed simply of buckets of dried food.
18. Cycling down unopened roads that led to nowhere (ie. the entire Westbrook area)
19. People falling in Sankey canal because it looked like grass...
20. The shop selling books in the bus station
21. Accordian players on the bridge to the former Legh Street car park
22. Believing that trespassers would be prosecuted on school playing fields out of hours!
23. People who had full-size footballs that were made of fur like a tennis ball...never was sure why
24. Mr Freezes after every day in school in the summer and the cuts to the skin between your fingers.
25. Or buying lager and lime ice lollies from the ice cream man at Walton Gardens and pretending you are drunk
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