5274 x 5864 px | 44,7 x 49,6 cm | 17,6 x 19,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
9 août 2020
Informations supplémentaires:
By the middle of the 15th century the population of the town had increased to about 1, 300 people and, even though travelling was hard, Warrington’s markets and fairs were known far and near. The lanes around the market became so crowded with stalls and animals that an open space had to be made in the north west corner of the crossroads. On early maps this was called the ‘forum’, and later the ‘corn market’. The rights to collect tolls on these markets and fairs remained with the barons of Warrington, and later with the lords of the manor, until 1856 when the new corporation bought them from John Ireland Blackburne, the then Lord of the Manor. The Victorian market Three years later the Warrington Improvement and Market Act said the corporation could hold and maintain a market, and could also to build on any land purchased under the powers of the Act, or on any land forming part of any street. The buildings were market houses and places for the sale of cattle, hay and other articles. After much debate a new market hall for meat traders was built in 1856, which was an impressive brick and stone building. It was extended in 1873, adding a cast iron-framed fish market hall. Later, a glass-roofed general market hall was built on land behind the Barley Mow Inn. The market in the 1960s-1970s By the late 1960s, the Victorian market halls had become outdated and they couldn’t meet the modern standards of health and hygiene. It was impossible to build a new market around the old without stopping trading for a long time. When Warrington became a New Town, the town centre was redeveloped and the market was moved to Bank Street, where it would provide a counterbalance to the new Golden Square shopping centre. The new market was designed on three levels, based on the natural fall of the ground, meaning that each floor came out at ground level. It gave service access to the back of shops on Bridge Street via a tunnel from the basement.
