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Warrington, Widnes, Runcorn Street Atlas.
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Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Bold Street, Warrington WA1
1JG. Tel: 01925 - 442733. The building houses a collection of
around 1,000 paintings, (oils, watercolours and prints) from
the 19th and early 20th centuries. Also ethnology, egyptology,
geology, Roman Britain, pottery/ceramics, botany, fish, amphibians,
reptiles, the Civil War, local industries, birds and mammals,
and glass. About 5 miles east of Widnes.
Gulliver's World, Old
Hall, Warrington WA5 9YZ. Tel: 01925 444888. Gulliver’s
Warrington is nestled within a beautiful park setting, where
much of the fantasy is created by wonderful towering trees, and
a beautiful lake forms the centrepiece of the park. From the
tumbling and juggling fun of Circus World, mosey on down to High
Noon in Western World, walk with dinosaurs in the prehistoric
Lost World, feel your knees tremble in Count’s Castle and
shiver your timbers in Smugglers Wharf. www.gulliversfun.co.uk.
About 6 miles east of Widnes.
Catalyst, Mersey Road, Widnes WA8 0DF. Tel: 0151 420 112. Catalyst
is the only science centre (and museum) solely devoted to chemistry
and how the products of chemistry are used in every day life
- from medicines to meccano. Our key aim is to inform people
of all ages about the "chemistry" industry and its
role in our lives, past present and future. www.catalyst.org.uk.
Location: In the centre of Widnes.
Norton Priory Museum &
Gardens, Tudor Road, Manor Park, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 1SX. Tel
01928 569895. Norton Priory Museum & Gardens is an independent
museum, established in 1975 to care for one of the country's
most important monastic sites, which encompasses in its 38 acres
museum galleries, the ruins of a medieval priory and a formal
Walled Garden. One of the largest excavated monastic sites in
Europe. Norton Priory Museum & Gardens are open every day
from 12 noon and are well signposted from Junction 11of the M56.
www.nortonpriory.org. About 4 miles east of Widnes.
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