The Golden Square is quite a nice shopping center, especially for a small town like Warrington. It…read moreis Warrington's main shopping center alongside Cockhedge, which is mainly there just to house an Asda store. As you can tell by its name, Golden Square is basically a large, indoor "Square" of shops, with 135 shops in total according to their website, all over one floor. I dislike the approach of it all being over one floor, being used to seeing shopping centers on multiple floors, which also allows room for more shops, but Warrington's Golden Square also has a few stores in an outside square to it, which is also quite nice including Rhode Island Coffee and a Post Office, which is a nice area. The Shopping Center as I said is quite nice, both inside and out with a good range of shops, including WHSmtih, EE, Starbucks CEX, JD, 3, Waterstones and Vision Express, just to name a few. Due to the shape of the mall, it is quite easy to navigate around. This mall is quite nice for a small town and although it isn't somewhere I'd recommenced you constantly go out of your way to go here, it is well worth a look in if you are in the area as it is a nice shopping center, with a good range of shops and is great for a small town like Warrington, hence a solid 3 star rating.

A shopping centre in the centre of Warrington town centre with all your usual high street shops -…read moreBoots, WHSmith, Next, M&S. Its all under cover so the potential bad English weather won't be a factor. According to their web site, there are 135 stores inside. I went recently a few days before Christmas and it wasn't too busy - nothing like shopping centres like Arndale Centre or Trafford Centre (actually never normally go to Trafford Centre but especially near Christmas but I think I can safely say its crazy busy!) Didn't stay too long but went to Boots and also went to Debenhams for some food - which was actually pretty good. There is multi storey car parking but unfortunately it is not free. For under an hour, its £1. It goes up to £5.50 if you are more than 4 hours. Between 2-4 hours is £2.20 which is not too bad I guess.

Warrington seems to have a good number of retail parks, and Riverside Retail Park is one of them,…read morejust outside the town centre, it has a couple of large stores and brands, including Sports Direct, Home Bargains, B&M, Next and a drive-thru McDonald's, with a couple of empty units with other stores either closing or moving to other retail locations across Warrington. I did find a lack of lighting and a dead atmosphere around the retail park, making it feel slightly run-down, especially compared to JunctionNINE and Gemini Retail Parks, which seem to offer a better selection of stores in the same town. There are only two hours of free parking here, and you will be fined if you overstay that welcome, so do tread accordingly, two hours is more than enough time as there isn't a lot of things to do here anymore, but those looking to spend any significant length of time in McDonald's and then one or two shops, may feel rushed. There always seem to be plenty of car parking spaces here though. 2* - Only useful for a handful of stores, which would probably be better located in the town centre's other retail parks, seems like an unnecessary burden to have this additional one that doesn't offer a great deal to the town.

This shopping centre is ok, not the greatest amount of shops here but that's fine as the town…read morecentre is a right next to it. Its a pity about having to pay parking fees to go and buy something from Argos or Staples etc.. maybe Argos should consider doing ticket stamping like Asda do.. but make it 'within 10 minutes of stamping' instead of Asdas 2 hours. Asda make a lot of money out of people going in to buy £5 worth of shopping to get their ticket stamped .. most people stay longer and buy far more shopping. haha ;-) Needs more parent and toddler parking spaces too!!!

Cockhedge Shopping center is a shopping center in Warrington town center, to use my Manchester City…read moreterminology, it is a bit like the Brian Kidd of Warrington, the Assistant, the deputy, I'm sure many people will agree that this is "the second" shopping center in Warrington, due to its size and number of shops in comparison to the larger Golden Square. I'm going to start with the parking situation which was a bit poor, they is an entrance here with a sort of pay station on your way in and out, on my visit it wasn't manned and the shutters were up to just come in and out as you please. They was a parking sign which looked pretty old and suggested Cockhedge did not actually own the car park, and the prices looked rather expensive too and they contradicted the sign in the window that mentioned Cockhedge had 2 hours free parking. I found this to be rather misleading as they were 2 different parking prices, they really do need to get rid of one sign, as it will confuse most people, especially people (like myself) who are not from Warrington. They is only a few shops here, and most of them seem to be your typical discount stores, such as Wilko, Pound world and B & M, Gala also have a large bingo hall here, Greggs, Argos and Superdrug finish off the list of big names here, which just proves they isn't a lot here and it isn't really worth taking the trip in, unless you do need to go to ASDA. This shopping center didn't have a good atmosphere to it too, with lots of small shops, some with probably are very local stores, and mainly discounters, which made me feel like I was in a market as well, and with music playing and it being very quiet, It just didn't feel like a city center at all, and felt worse than that. When considering the lack of shops and parking situation, I wouldn't bother going out of the way to come here unless you do need to go to Asda, as it is in general sadly a very poor shopping mall, and probably the stores here would be better transferring into the newer, larger Golden Square or on the street level.

This store has improved greatly since my last review, the staff seem much more friendly and…read morehelpful, while the overall selection seems to have improved to a satisfactory level, the store is a little cleaner but there still remains products just thrown on the floor, and others hung up but still looked like they'd been open to try on and left in a mess, still an improvement. Sandwiched in between two larger branches 20 minutes away in each direction (Liverpool and Manchester), but still A-OK and not a bad alternative if you do find yourself in Warrington. 3*

I can't walk past a branch of Primark if I've got my kid's with me and on the day we visited this…read morestore they must have thought Christmas had come early because we'd already visited the Wigan branch a couple of hours earlier. However much like Wigan we found this store quite small in comparison to some of the others we've visited in places like Liverpool, Manchester and Blackpool. Happily for me neither found anything they hadn't already seen in other branches so my wallet remained unopened and intact. If you're in Warrington then have a look but if you really want the full Primani experience then head for Liverpool or Manchester instead.

Birchwood shopping centre is in dire need of a facelift, it's run down and often looks in need of a…read moregood clean. However it is convenient for the local area, inside is an Asda and Iceland aswell as some chain stores such as New Look and Argos. Parking is free and there is plenty of it, making it easy to come here. The shops tend to be the cheaper end of the high street stores, newsagents, charity and sports shops. At Christmas they often have a small grotto and a Santa which is nice for the children. Birchwood shopping centre is probably not somewhere you would go Saturday shopping, the range of shops is just too small but it is nice to have a quick look around the shops if you are going to one of the supermarkets anyway.

We use this station for day-trips to Liverpool. The reason for this is that trains from Manchester…read moreto Liverpool for some reason seem to take an age, and by the time you've got into Manchester as well you've more or less wasted half a day. Much better instead to drive to Birchwood Station, fairly close to the M62, park there (the car park always seems to have spaces to spare), and then catch one of the frequent trains to Liverpool: problem solved. Birchwood station itself is small but clean and tidy, with good signage and information about departures. The ticket office doesn't seem to be manned very often but the ticket machines (once you've mastered them) do the job. All in all: a good place.

I was all most banned from going to this store it was my first time going in there. A lady wouldn't…read moremove out of my way she knocked into my shoulder and made a complained to the staff member who was on the door and came up with a story saying that I touched her bum. The tesco staff who was on the door came over and they was going to ban me from going into the store this was really unprofessional and the lady should of checked her cctv footage before going to ban new customers I would keep away from this store. The lady also block me in from picking items up on the shelf and the male guy laughed we had to go to the police station. I was really worried. Now that they saying they wasn't any cctv footage covered up the problem

Rubbish clothes and shoes section for kids. Someone SACK the…read moreperson that choices the styles and latest fashions in there. The worse is the shoes.. terrible for kids! All of my friends AND the staff at tesco's say the same thing.. AWFUL choice..rarely restocked etc. Good choice in foods and drinks... bakery is good too. Parking is good... but I once visited of a late night.. pouring with rain with little children.. empty car park except for the 'family' spaces all full.. which of course were not ALL taken by families with kids at 10pm! ( we had to run out to get nappies on the way back from a holiday away ..hence late visit to tescos ) We parked as close to the store front as possible so the kids didn't get drenched by the rain.. on our return 10 mins later we had a parking ticket for being in a disabled spot ( TOTALLY EMPTY CAR PARK!! ) .. very annoying.. guess they didn't ticket the people that pretended to have babies with them? Tesco refused to help us in the matter... swapped to Asda after that.

Its hard to actually find many furniture stores these days, everything seems to be from flat pack…read moremdf however Branches of Warrington is bucking this trend by offering real wood furniture. Based on Wilderspool Causeway with its own parking, its worth stopping off if you're looking for something that's going to last. They tend to stock different wood furniture from oak to pine, and some others, as well as different styles and pieces from bedroom to living room, to dining room. We've had lots from there and the quality is excellent, worth the price as pieces last for years. They also do some giftware and artwork so you can always pick up something nice and unusual to decorate the house with. The staff are nice and friendly and know the products so can help with any questions or enquiries you might have.

From the owner: Specialists in Oak, Pine and Painted Furniture for the Bedroom, Dining Room and Living Room.read more

Earlestown historic market is 700 years old with over 150 stalls - so make sure that you have some…read moretime if you want to properly look around. Located in the centre of Earlestown there are regular train and bus services and its easily accessible from both the A580 and M6. I wasn't spoilt for choice with an enormity of local and fresh produce and products from local traders including: Cakes/confectionary, Fresh Meat and auction, Plants and Flowers, Tools and Hardware, Bedding, Sportswear, Ladies/mens/childrens clothing, Electrical goods, Household products, Bread, Pies, eggs, CD's & books, Furniture, Jewellery and Repairs, Pet food/toys/accessories, Greetings cards, Footwear, Wool, Watches, Protective clothing, bags, Fishmonger, Carpets, Fruit & Veg, phone accessories, cosmetics and more. It was the cakes and fishmongers that did it for me! The prices are pretty good and its nice not to be in a supermarket. The market takes place every Friday throughout the year from 9.00am to 17.00pm.

Earlestown market runs three days of the week and each day its there is absolutely different…read more The Monday and Friday market is the one that sells new items, clothing, shoes, foods, household things etc. Friday is the better day as there seems to be more stalls with more variety. Also on a friday you get all the extra food stalls mainly consisting of fruit and veg, then there is also the big meat trailor where you can definately pick up some good deals - however they don't seem to sell meats in small quantities even so still very good. Monday seems to be half the size of a friday - still worth a look if your local maybe not if you have to travel far - it really is pot luck on a monday. Saturday there is absolutely everything there that nobody would want unless you where looking for something in particular, however, this is the busiest day for the market so be warned - if you have no patience don't go its packed and everybody walks around at snail pace. It really handy to get too as the local train and bus stations are within walking distance.

This lovely ladies' boutique in Lymm has some wonderful finds. I stopped by the window display…read moreand as I was checking out a particular black leather handbag ( a girl can never have enough), I also caught sight of the price- £25. Now this my kind of shop! You walk into a room with huge black chandeliers, gold Rococco mirrors and divine zebra striped chairs and all around there are clothes galore. Where to start? Well, Bee Chic stocks everything from floaty Nina Scimento frocks and cocktail dresses to jumper dresses, over-sized printed t-shirts and white linen jackets. Ladies shopping can be a mean fete and this is one place you can go to with your mum, niece, teenage daughter or friends and no one will be bored, loitering around the door, dying to escape or fiddling with their mobile phone as though their life depended on it. Prices here are so diverse it is confusing. There are satin dresses fit for a ball costing £199, jumper dresses at £29 and jackets being sold for £40. Bee Chic is a market full of wares. It stocks a range of well made costume jewellery and I particularly love those liitle diamante earings and necklaces inspired by Chanel and Vivienne Westwood designs. There are watches full of bling, miniature mirrors, candlesticks and Marilyn Monroe shopper bags- tres chic. This shop also specialises in quality leather goods and I defy you not to discover a clutch or bag you want to skip away with. I ventured into the rear changing area where there are two cubicles hidden behind thick, luxurious black and white fleur de lys curtains. Cheryl the assistant is a real diamond of a lady and cannot do enough for you. She works as part of a team with the owner Barbara who is responsible for sourcing all these products. Bee Chic is a fashion lovers fantasy.