A FORGOTTEN feature of Warrington's industrial past will be preserved for posterity after the intervention of an Orford vicar.
In 1983 Armitage and Rigby presented a chimney cap, which used to stand atop Cockhedge Mill, to the borough, as "an amenity feature for the town".
For years it has stood at the corner of Golborne Street and Winwick Street, up-ended and used as a giant flower bed. But it will have to be moved as it stands in the middle of Warrington's proposed new £7.5million bus interchange, which was given planning permission last week.
The Rev Steve Parish, from St Ann's Church in Orford, made an 11th hour plea for it to be incorporated into the new 19-bay station.
Clr Albert Clemow believed the cap could be relocated inside the bus station's concourse and said: "It's a piece of the town's history."
After the meeting, Mr Parish said: "As the chimney cap has been saved once, it would be a pity to lose it.
"But it does need a more imaginative setting than it's had."
l Cockhedge Mill was finally demolished in the early 80s to make way for an Asda supermarket.
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