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Written by Steven Dowd
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Following my transcription the other day for the Kellys 1895 Directory, I follow today with my attempt at transcribing the Newton-in-Makerfield section from the Lancashire Baines Directory 1824-5
If I can find some more old book referrals to the area, I will make efforts to transcribe those, hope someone is finding this usefull |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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This is an account of the investigation in 1928 of the Roman Road which runs through Newton le Willows, and concerns the section between the Vulcan Village and Wilderspool, Warrington |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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THE BRIDGEWATER Canal is rightly hailed as a masterpiece of civil engineering, but there is a big argument about its place in the history of inland navigation.
Its proponents claim the Bridgewater was the first "true" canal in Britain, but others believe that title should go to our own local Sankey Navigation. | 
a sankey Canal Flat |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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| This is a brief history, with some details and diagrams of the local North-South route through Lancashire of the M6 Motorway, with particular reference to that part of the M6 in close proximity to Newton-le-Willows. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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James Muspratt | James Muspratt, this is the gentleman whome we can directly blame for Newton le Willows having the Mucky Mountains, these mountains are the waste and biproducts from James Muspratts Vitriol works, which was sited beside this lasting Industrial waste dump upto 1850.
James Muspratt was the father of the alkali trade in this country. Losh had preceded him in the same business In the Tyne in 1814, and in 1816 Tennant had settled his business at St. Rollox, on the Clyde; however both their operations were very limited, and Muspratt was the first to establish a soda works to carry out the Leblanc process on a large scale. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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This is a tourist guide I recently purchased, produced sometime in the early 1960s by the then Urban District Council.
| The Newton-le-Willows Official Guide issued by the Newton-le-Willows urban district council | | NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS' SITUATION AND COMMUNICATIONS The Urban District of Newton-le-Willows has an area of 3,103 acres, a population of over 22,000 and is bounded on the north by the Urban Districts of Haydock and Golborne, and on the south by the Warrington Rural District. On the west the Urban District almost touches the boundary of the County Borough of St. Helens. |  |
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