WARRINGTON Library will be going back through the archives for a series of free talks.

Go behind the scenes at the library on Friday with tours from 10.30am until noon and 1.30pm until 3pm.

Visitors will get to some of the strong rooms and store rooms at the library and find out more about how documents, archives and items are stored.

Have you ever requested a document and heard the receding footsteps, clanking locks and creaking doors?

This tour could show you how it all works.

There will be three or four steps to climb on the tour, but staff will be present to help if necessary.

Book online or by telephone through Culture Warrington’s box office or ask at the Searchroom Helpdesk.

Places are limited to 10 people per tour.

To book call 442345 or visit the box office at Pyramid and Parr Hall.

Meanwhile on Tuesday between 1.30pm and 3pm, a talk on the town's periodicals takes place in the library.

As part of their 70th anniversary celebrations Lancashire Life Magazine let the public select 70 objects from museums across the region that they felt represented Lancashire’s history.

Voters in Warrington selected 'Eyres’ Weekly Journal', one of Lancashire’s first newspapers. Eyres, Journal was produced by Eyres Press in Warrington and is one of many local periodicals held in the town’s archive.

This talk, with accompanying slideshow, will look at the often odd and sometimes comical content of Warrington’s historical magazines and papers.

To bookcall 442345 or visit the Box Office at Pyramid and Parr Hall.