Oliver Cromwellimage is in
the public domain.

Member of Parliament for Liverpool in 1625. Created Knight of the Bath on the occasion of Charles I's coronation in 1626.

Appointed lord-lieutenant of North Wales and on 7 March, 1628, was called up to the House of Lords as Baron Strange.

Devoted himself to the King's cause when the English Civil War broke out in 1642.

He was unable to get possession of Manchester, was defeated at Chowbent and Lowton Moor, and, in 1643, after gaining Preston, failed to take Bolton and Lancaster castles.

After successfully beating off Sir William Brereton's attack on Warrington, he was defeated at Whalley and withdrew to York. Warrington in consequence surrendering to the enemy's forces.

He was chosen by Charles II to command the troops of Lancashire and Cheshire, and on the 15 August, 1651, he landed at Wyre Water in Lancashire in support of Charles's invasion, and met the King on the 17 August.

Proceeding to Warrington, he failed to obtain the support of the Presbyterians through his refusal to take the Covenant, and on the 25 August was totally defeated at the Battle of Wigan Lane, being severely wounded and escaping with difficulty.

Whilst at Warrington during the English Civil War he held his headquarters close to where the Marquis of Granby public house now stands in Church Street. See Tour 1 for more.

In 1774 she married Rochemont Barbauld, a member of a French Protestant family settled in England.

In 1785 they left for the continent, for the benefit of Mr Barbauld's health. On their return about two years later, he was appointed to a church at Hampstead. In 1802 they moved to Stoke Newington.

Through her book of poems, Barbauld became well known in London literary circles.

In her lifetime Barbauld was most famous for her children's books — a series of four age-adapted reading primers entitled Lessons for Children (1778-9) and her Hymns in Prose for Children (1781).

Barbauld became increasingly violent towards his wife, and eventually drowned himself in 1808. There is a memoir of Barbauld written by her niece Lucy Aikin.

Barbauld Street in Warrington is named after her. Read more about her in Tour 1.

For more information on patents, click www.FreePatentsOnline.com. The site has more data and more features than any other free patent site, including free PDF downloading, and the ability to store, annotate, and share patents.

At the age of seventeen Luke Fildes became a student at the Warrington School of Art.

Fildes moved to South Kensington Art School where he met Hubert von Herkomer and Frank Holl. All three men became influenced by the work of Frederick Walker, the leader of the Social Realism movement in Britain.

In 1869 he joined the staff of The Graphic newspaper, an illustrated weekly edited by the social reformer, William Luson Thomas. An engraving in the first edition, entitled Houseless and Hungry, was brought to the attention of Charles Dickens, who was so impressed he immediately commissioned Fildes to illustrate The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

By 1870 he had given up working from the Graphic and had turned his full attention to oil painting. Works include The Casual Ward (1874), The Widower (1876), The Village Wedding (1883), An Al-fresco Toilette (1889) and The Doctor (1891), now in the National Gallery of British Art.

Other works include the coronation portraits of King Edward VII  and Queen Alexandra.

He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1879, and academician in 1887. He was knighted in 1906.

His son, Sir Paul Fildes, was an eminent scientist.

Born in Warrington, Lancashire, Steve was apprenticed to John Porter at Chester when he was 14 years old.

In 1904 he rode his first winner in France, before returning to England to dominate the sport for the next two decades.

He won the Epson Derby six times, including three consecutive wins in the early 1920s -

He was also associated with the horses Brown Jack - which he rode to six consecutive wins in the Queen Alexandra Stakes at Royal Ascot - and The Tetrarch, a two-year-old that raced in 1913, and was said to be the fastest horse ever ridden in England.

In 1915 and 1917, he rode the horses Pommern and Gay Crusader to the Triple Crown respectively, two of only 15 horses to have achieved the feat in over 200 years.

1000 Guineas winner - 1937: Exhibitionist.

2000 Guineas Stakes winners - 1915: Pommern, 1917: Gay Crusader, 1925: Manna.

Epsom Oaks winners - 1918: My Dear, 1937: Exhibitionist.

St. Leger Stakes winners - 1915: Pommern, 1917: Gay Crusader.

Always popular with the public and his fellow professionals, Steve was never called up by the stewards. He retired in 1937, and died in 1945 of a heart attack.

Born in Liverpool during a bombing raid, his parents moved to Oswaldtwistle during the war – hence his nickname. He spent his formative years in Warrington.

Showing an interest in clothes design at a young age, he enrolled at the Regional College of Art in Manchester in 1958. Here, he met the painter David Hockney, and his future wife, the textile designer Celia Birtwell.

From 1962 to 1965 he attended the Royal College of Art and secured a first-class degree. First featured in Vogue magazine in August 1965.

His fashion show at Chelsea Town Hall in 1967 was filmed for Pathé News

The period 1965-1974 is regarded as his zenith. His many clients included rock star Mick Jagger, as well as his wife Bianca Jagger. He made her wedding dress.

The models Twiggy, Penelope Tree, Jean Shrimpton and Veruschka all wore Ossie Clark dresses as did actresses Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth Taylor and Faye Dunaway.

Marianne Faithfull, Patti Boyd, Anita Pallenburg and Jimi Hendrix were associated with Ossie.

He divorced Celia Birtwell in 1974.

His company went bankrupt in 1981; he was made bankrupt in 1983.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s when fears of an AIDS epidemic in the London gay community emerged, close friends who knew of his exploits on Hampstead Heath feared that Clark may contract AIDS.

In 1996, he was stabbed to death by his lover, Diego Cogolato, who was later convicted of murder.

Clark is compared with the fashion greats of the 1960s, Mary Quant and Biba.

In 2003-2004 there was a major exhibition of his work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

In 2006, Warrington Museum featured his work as part of their Warrington People exhibition, the conclusion of the Gateway Through Time project.

Tim Curry's father, James, was a Methodist chaplain for the British navy. Upon his father's death in 1958, Curry relocated to south London.

He studied Drama and English at Birmingham from age 19, and then at Cambridge. At Birmingham he also acted with the renowned Guild Theatre Group.

Curry's first full-time acting role was as part of the original London cast of the musical Hair in 1968. Here he first met Richard O'Brien, who went on to create his next full-time and perhaps still most famous role, that of Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He continued to play the character in London, Los Angeles and New York until 1975.

He cites Billie Holiday as his major musical influence, saying that he "listened to nothing but her records for two years" during a period of teenage depression as he contemplated on "which gloomy Sunday afternoon I was going to throw myself under a car."

In 1978, A&M Records released Curry's debut solo album, Read My Lips. The following year, Curry released his second and most successful album, Fearless. Curry's third and final album, Simplicity, was released in 1981, again by A&M Records.

In 1979, Curry took the part of the Pirate King in a London stage version of The Pirates of Penzance opposite George Cole.

In 1981, he formed part of the original cast in the Broadway show Amadeus, playing the title character, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

In late 2004, he began his role of King Arthur in Spamalot in Chicago. The show successfully moved to Broadway in February 2005.

TV and movie credits include Jerome K. Jerome in the BBC TV movie Three Men in a Boat (1975), Dr. Petrov in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Gomez Addams in Addams Family Reunion (1998), Roger Corwin in Charlie's Angels (2000) and Trymon in Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (2008).

He was born in Warrington, the son of an Irish mother and an English father.

When he was 14, he decided to become a writer, but instead ended up in the comedy business after going to the University of Leicester, teaching and travelling. 

He co-founded the Cliffhanger Theatre in Brighton.

His popularity increased as he wrote comedy scripts for Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones. He then went on a comedy tour of Britain and Australia with Roger McGough.

His most successful radio show was X Marks the Spot on BBC Radio 4, which he presented.

He presented the Channel 4 TV travel show Travelog. His television career after that included Country Tracks on BBC2 and The Pier on Meridian Television. One of his most popular series was Desperately Seeking Something, a look at various spiritual movements.  

In 2002, he won the Newcomer of the Year award at the British Book Awards and the humorous travel book, McCarthy's Bar, sold over a million copies. He followed with The Road to McCarthy  about his travels to remote places around the world in search of Irish connections.

He was diagnosed with cancer early in 2004, and died of the disease in October of that year at the age of 52.

After his death, his old friend Roger McGough wrote a poem about him called November the Fifth.

Born in Warrington at Royal Air Force Padgate where his father Wing Commander Reginald Tredinnick (1913-1967) had been stationed. He grew up in the Cornish seaside town of Falmouth.

Trained as a photo-journalist in the Midlands.

Managing Eric Clapton and the Bee Gees as well as presenting the West End musicals of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

In 1976, with drummer Jon Moss (later of The Damned and Culture Club), guitarist Dave Wight (real name Colin Wight) and bassist Steve Voice (real name), Tredinnick formed the punk band London with himself as lead singer and chief songwriter.

He supported The Stranglers on a nationwide tour.

He made uncredited appearances in many films including Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part 1, Flash Gordon, Lady Jane, Octopussy, Hawk the Slayer, Ragtime, Chariots of Fire, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Whoops Apocalypse, Who Dares Wins, Britannia Hospital, Ivanhoe and TV series’ Minder and The Professionals.

Tredinnick wrote regular stage and television scripts for Frankie Howerd, including the hour-long special, Superfrank! for Channel 4.

In 1986 Tredinnick started writing for the international Disney Magazine, creating cartoon stories for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and other well-known Walt Disney characters.

In 1987/8 he created and wrote the BBC1 comedy series Wyatt's Watchdogs. This led to an invitation to write for the Alomo/BBCTV show Birds of a Feather.

Tredinnick's first novel Fripp was published in 2001.

Miles Tredinnick lives in London and works for The Big Bus Company training tour guides in London, Dubai, Philadelphia and Baltimore. In this role he's been featured in BBC TV shows Generation X (2001) and Facing the Music with David and Carrie Grant (2005).

After playing on the APT tour in the early 1980s, he left the tour in 1984 to devote his time to coaching young British players, including Tim Henman, before returning to competitive play five years later.

Brown caused a sensation at Wimbledon in 1991. Ranked No. 591 in the world at the time, he faced the 10th seed and previous year's semi-finalist, Goran Ivanisevic, in the second round and beat him in four sets 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3, much to the delight of the British crowd. (He eventually lost in the third round to France's Thierry Champion 7-6, 1-6, 7-5, 6-3.)

Brown's career-high rankings were World No. 145 in singles and No. 42 in doubles.

Since permanently retiring from competitive tennis, Brown has served as coach of Britain's Fed Cup team.

Brown was born in Warrington. He grew up in Timperley, south Manchester.

He was a great admirer of Mohammad Ali, George Best and Bruce Lee, and learned karate.

His interest in music was inspired by the original punk bands, specifically the Sex Pistols but also the likes of Angelic Upstarts and The Clash. He also loved northern soul music and attended all-night events across the north of England.

He joined The Patrol on bass before it disbanded, and eventually became singer to the newly-formed The Stone Roses in about 1984.

In 2005 Brown headlined The Other Stage on the closing night of Glastonbury Festival to great acclaim, playing five Stone Roses classics and ending the festival in great style.

In his solo career, Brown has worked with many notable musicians including UNKLE and Oasis' Noel Gallagher

Brown appeared in a cameo role in the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

In 2002, Q magazine named Ian Brown in their list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die", although this was part of a sub-list of "5 Bands That Could Go Either Way".

He undertook a sell out UK tour in 2005, including the 25,000-capacity Manchester Evening News (MEN) Arena on 3 December, 2005.

In the 2006 NME awards, Brown was presented with the "Godlike Genius" award.

Evans started his broadcasting career in 1985 at Manchester's Piccadilly Radio as an assistant to Timmy Mallett, and playing a character on his show called Nobby Nolevel (No 'O' Level).

After working as a producer on Richard Branson's service Radio Radio, Evans went on to work at the BBC London radio station GLR, first of all as a producer on Emma Freud's mid-morning show. He went on to produce Danny Baker's weekend breakfast show. Evans became a presenter on the station in early 1990, taking over a Saturday afternoon show.

In March 1992, Evans began presenting a Sunday afternoon show on BBC Radio 1, replacing Phillip Schofield who had previously broadcast in the slot. The show ended in September 1992.

His next break was The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 from 28 September, 1992. He left The Big Breakfast on 29 September, 1994, and formed his own production company, Ginger Productions. Its first major programme, Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, was broadcast on Channel 4 between 1994 and 1995.

In April 1995 Evans joined BBC Radio 1 to host the flagship breakfast show. His spell at the station ended in 1977 when he failed to turn up to work, following a long-running dispute over his demand to take Fridays off, in part to pursue commitments he had taken on as the host of Channel 4's TFI Friday programme, which had commenced in 1996.

Evans returned to Virgin Radio to host the breakfast show from 13 October, 1997. In December that year, with the assistance of investors, he bought Virgin Radio from Richard Branson, for £85m, and formed the Ginger Media Group, to control the interests both of Ginger Productions and Virgin Radio.

During the last quarter of 1999, Evans ran separate quizzes on his radio show and on TFI Friday, both called Who's Going To Be A Millionaire? The £1million prize was awarded on radio on 17 December and on television on 24 December, the first million pound prizes on British TV and Radio, beating ITV's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire by ten months.

He was dismissed from Virgin Radio in 2001 and later tried, and failed, to sue the company for unfair dismissal in 2003.

In August 2002, Chris Evans set up a radio and television production company, UMTV. TV shows include Johnny Vegas: 18 Stone of Idiot for Channel 4/E4 and OFI Sunday for ITV.

In early May 2006, he was named Music Radio Personality of the Year.

He has previously been married to Carol McGiffin ('Loose Women', ITV1) and Billie Piper ('Doctor Who', BBC1).

Walker landed the title role in the television series Lorna Doone before making her feature debut in Shogun Mayeda (1991).

She first gained international attention as a single-minded English member of an Irish terrorist group in Phillip Noyce's Patriot Games with Harrison Ford.

In late 2005, she played Atia of the Julii in the first season of the HBO/BBC2 television series Rome. Her performance earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama.

A fruitful work experience placement in the puppet and prop-making department on Aardman Animations' Academy Award-winning Wallace and Gromit production A Close Shave landed Jobling a role as puppet painter on Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!

But Jobling's most universal acclaim was born out of his role in the making of children's TV hit, Bob The Builder, on which he is production designer, the hand behind all of that programme's inimitable characters and sets.

As an author and illustrator of children's books, his most (in)famous character can quite easily be recognised as Frankenstein's Cat, the muddled up feline and star of his own animated show.

Curtis is a long-time collaborator of the Animex Festival of Animation in Teesside. In 2006 Curtis was made the Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Teesside.

His company, Bada Bling Ltd, specializes in the development of film and animation content, covering all aspects of production.

Collaborators include such industry notables as acclaimed animation director Ian Culbard, glam rock-loving comic scribe Ian Carney, premier puppet makers Mackinnon & Saunders, (Corpse Bride), and Seed Animation Studio.

Children's books include Frankenstein's Cat, Dinosaurs After Dark (with Jonathan Emmett), My Daddy, Cheeky Monkey, and The Skeleton in the Closet (with Alice Schertle).

He was educated at Sir Thomas Boteler High School in Warrington, where his drama teacher suggested he went up for a part in a National Film and Television School production called This Boy's Story. This film went on to win a British Academy Film & Television Award (BAFTA) for best short film in 1991.

Steven and his younger brother, Kevin, then both appeared in the Granada Television series Children's Ward.

He later worked on the medical information film Growing Pains before making his BBC debut as a courier in the Patricia Routledge series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.

He played a character called Rob in an episode of The Bill and a role in Common As Muck before returning to Granada to play Darren in the medical series Medics with Tom Baker and Sue Johnston.

In 1996 he made his debut on ITVs Coronation Street as Ashley Peacock and soon he was made a regular character, marrying Maxine Heavey, who was eventually murdered by Richard Hillman. Ashley then married Clare Casey in 2004.

Steven, who still lives in Warrington, has also played Neil in You, Me and Manley and has worked on the BBC Radio 4 play The Distance Between Stars.

He is a patron for The Shannon Bradshaw Trust, a Warrington based Children's Charity helping children with life threatening conditions and their families, www.shannonstrust.org.uk.