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Warrington is a town with a long history and a future shaped by its designation as a New Town in 1968. Over the last half century the landscape and the lives of its inhabitants have changed dramatically. Older residents of the former Lancashire industrial town barely recognize the town of their youth, while incomers and younger residents only know life in a thriving Cheshire center with ambitions to be seen as a city. During the last 50 years there have been major changes to the demographics of the area and the built environment by creating new communities and bringing former Lancashire and Cheshire villages within the town which has effectively trebled in size. The redundant World War II sites of Risley munitions works and the former military bases at Burtonwood and Padgate have been redeveloped. Already some of the townscape created in the 1980s as a result of the New Town plan is being rebuilt and by 2019 a new local plan will finalize the next stage of redevelopment. Warrington: From New Town to New City? is based on a community-wide local history project to create a permanent record of these crucial years in the town's development. It will involve oral history to capture the memories of those who remember the town from the pre-1960 era or who were involved in the New Town planning, or saw their area change drastically as a result. It will also capture the memories and images of the New Town over the last 50 years and be a mixture of official records with community contributions from old and young alike. This fascinating book reveals Warrington's transformation from post-wartime austerity to 21st century prosperity through the extensive photographic archive, records held by Culture Warrington and the memories and family archives of Warringtonians themselves.