THIS week we go back to the 1960s for this great photograph.
This picture was sent in by Olivia Ashbrook.
She said her granddad found an old photo of his friend Ronnie Richardson working at the iconic golden gates in the town centre.
She said: “They met in school (Richard Fairclough) and went on Army service together.
“As they came out of the Army, the Warrington Guardian took photos of him painting the golden gates.
“And he’s recently just came across it from May 1963.”
Of course the gates were repainted just last year.
They have have stood proudly outside Warrington Town Hall for more than a century but they were originally meant for an even more prestigious destination.
The gates, which are actually made of cast-iron, were commissioned by one of the livery companies of London as a present for Queen Victoria and were to be installed at Sandringham.
In 1862, the Queen went to Rotten Row, Hyde Park in London to inspect the gift, but she was in for a shock.
Behind the gates stood a statue of Oliver Cromwell, which so displeased the Queen she refused to accept the gift; but Sandringham’s loss was Warrington’s gain. The gates were returned to the makers, the Coalbrookdale Company in Ironbridge.
In 1893, Frederick Monks, a member of Warrington Council, was visiting Ironbridge in his capacity as a director of Monks Hall Foundry and saw the gates. He was so taken with them he bought them as a gift for the council and they were installed in pride of place in Bank Park two years later.
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