Runcorn and District Historical Society.
The Society and General
● The Society
● Present Committee
● Meetings for 2024/25
● Our Facebook Page
● Society Journals
● Runcorn Historical Bibliography
● Archives
● Historical Research Papers
● Halton Heritage Partnership
● Other local museums and history websites
● Tithe maps and old OS maps of Cheshire
● Something you would like to know, or can tell us, about Runcorn history?
Historical Items
● Historical Sketch of Runcorn
● Timeline of Runcorn History
● Aethelflaed "Queen of the Mercians", and Anglo-Saxon Runcorn
● "Old Quay" (Latchford) Canal
● Bridgewater Canal
● WeaverNavigation, Weston and Manchester Ship canals
● Leather Tanning Industry in the Runcorn area
● The Runcorn sandstone quarries
● Buildings known to have, or had, Runcorn stone in them (Worldwide)
● Rocksavage and Clifton
People and Recollections
● Runcorn Blue Plaques of famous residents
● Thomas Hazlehurst, Chapel Builder
● Temperance Movement in Victorian Runcorn
● The story of Missioner Shaw
● History and Memories of Weston Point
● Weston Point School from 1856
● Recollections of Runcorn in 1930
● Runcorn in the 20thC.--One mans recollections
● Whatever happened to William Walker?
● Edith Smith, the UK's first Warranted Policewoman
● The Flaming Badische
Buildings etc.
● Blue Plaques of historic places
● Halton Castle
● Norton Priory
● Postcards and Photos of Runcorn and District, including the Mersey bridges, the canals, Runcorn, Higher Runcorn, Halton Village and Weston & Weston Point
● The Anglican Parish Church of Runcorn
● The Roman Catholic Church in Runcorn
● Listed Buildings
● Unlisted old or historic buildings
● Listed Buildings of Moore, Daresbury and Preston Brook
● Runcorn Churches past and present
● The Mersey Tidal Bore at Runcorn