Warrington was at one time the centre for the wire manufacturing industry, particularly steel wire, in the UK and for that matter the rest of the world too.

Many of the Standards were established in Warrington ie, Standard Wire Gauge or SWG.

Companies Like Rylands, White Cross, Lockers etc led the world.

Also many of the Strand formations were developed in Warrington (different ways of stranding wires together). Even today in rope making many of the strands came out of Warrington.

In fact there is a single strand formation still know as "Warrington Strand".

At rugby matches at Wilderspool large %s of the crowd were "wire pullers"
hence the name.

if we started a new team now would we be singing

'Furniture, furniture, furniture'

in 80 years time ?

Rylands were also the largest producer of barbed wire for the MOD