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38 YEARS AGO ● Halton’s entire employment service was thrown into chaos when nearly 1,000 civil servants across Cheshire staged a mass walkout. ● A mystery virus which hit Murdishaw and Palacefields in Runcorn baffled doctors. ● A serious look at the standard of street lighting across Runcorn and Widnes was called for at a council meeting. ● An oxygen cylinder caught fire at a factory in Astmoor, Runcorn, but a major disaster was averted. ● Brookvale Recreation Centre was on schedule to open in the early summer of 1979. ● Organisers at the new Windmill Hill school and community centre were hoping to start a youth club for the estate.