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Written by Steven Dowd
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I recently bought a copy of this old book concerning Winwick Church, It doesnt have a print date, but I believe it was published around the 1930s
THE CHURCH OF SAINT OSWALD, WINWICK, IN LEGEND AND HISTORY.
By JOSEPH P. PEARCE, F.R.I.B.A. : F.R. HIST. S.
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Written by Steven Dowd
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THE EARLY DAYS - 1830.
George Stephenson had made many improvements to the Steam Locomotive, the Stockton and Darlington Railway had been in operation for five years, and in the same year the Vulcan Foundry came into being, founded by Charles Tayleur in partnership with George Stephenson and his son Robert, and trading as "Tayleur & Stephenson". |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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Today I managed to transcribe some poems written by J H Lane, which he published in 1916 in a small 40 page booklet called "Newton le Willows - Pictures and Verse".
Most of the Pictures from the book have already made it into the photo gallery, as they duplicate ones in his other two publications, as do some of the verse from the book, but here are three small sections of verse which are new to me. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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And now let us take a walk round Earlestown and Newton and see what it was like about 1890.
Immediately to the left of Earlestown Station was a large open space where the shops now stand and which was a common playground for the youth of the neighbourhood. That side of the street has changed very little, except that the shops at the top have all been altered and had new fronts put in to meet changed conditions.
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Written by Steven Dowd
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 |  | Colonel Thomas Peter Legh was the person who originally Built the Archway we now see in Newton High Street, It was built as a gateway to Haydock Park/Lodge, Peter Legh was still a serving Officer at the time the Arch was being built, and while away at camp he apparently left orders with the workmen that he should be the first person to pass through the arched gates after their completion.
His orders were of-course obeyed, but unhappily for Col. Peter Legh, he was borne through them first when Dead, having come to a sudden end while away in army service at Piershill Barracks, Scotland, on the 7th August, 1797. (1) |
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In the 1850's William Pilkington in St helens, operated Pilkingtons Glass Works in a market structure of oligopoly, to which the owners of Newton's Glass Works were not invited.
The result of this near monopoly, and the under-handed dealings within it, were then used by the LNWR and particularly its manager Hardman Earle to build more houses for its workers, extending the LNWR's housing stock, and thus forwarded the construction of Earlestown |
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