Haydock: A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4.
In history Haydock has been named as Hedoc, 1169; Heddoch, 1170; Haidoc, 1212. and then recently called Haydock This township has an area of 2,409 acres. (fn.…
Haydock: some history
Haydock Historic Characterisation project from 2011 conducted by National Museums Liverpool and English Heritage Township: Haydock Geology: The solid geology is coal measures sandstone overlain by…
George & Robert Stephenson
THE LIFE OF George Stephenson and his son Robert Stephenson Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the railway locomotive. By Samual Smiles With…
History of Burtonwood Brewery
On March 13th, 1867, James and Jane Forshaw purchased the land on which the Burtonwood Brewery now stands. James had some brewing training while employed at…
The Burtonwood Chapel
The Chapel of Burtonwood was founded by Sir Thomas de Bold in 1605, when Burtonwood was part of the Parish of Warrington. It was consecrated by…
The Story of Burtonwood
In the last 25 years the name of Burtonwood has been carried by thousands of American servicemen to countries all over the world. It is the…
CASTLE HILL, Newton-le-Willows
1980’s Archaeological Excavations. he text for this post is transcribed from two pamphlets that where produced at the time of the 1980s digs at Castle Hill,…
Winwick : It’s History and Antiquities
By WILLIAM BEAMONT. Second Edition, 1878 Time, that great clock which requires no winding up, and possesses what so many dreamers have sought for and sought…
Burtonwood – The Truth About G.I. Town
Four miles from Warrington in Lancashire, is Burtonwood, the great maintenance base for the American Air Lift to Berlin. There several thousand young Americans, most of…
The Vulcan Works – Making the Lion roar again
During the early part of 1979, Ruston Diesels Limited, the Company then occupying the historic Vulcan Foundry site, agreed to restore the locomotive Lion which had…
Digging into the roots of history
I recently purchased a number of the Burtonwood Brewery in-house ‘Top Hat’ magazines from the 1980s, in one of them was this article concerning the excavation…
Steam-Boiler Explosion at Newton
There was a Great Loss of Life by a Steam-Boiler Explosion at Newton.. 22nd Sept 1838 We regret to inform that the Viaduct Foundry on the…
Earlestown War memorial – unveiled by Lord Newton.
On Saturday afternoon, at Earlestown, Lord Newton unveiled a memorial of the South African war, which has been erected outside the Town Hall in honour of…
ST, Oswald’s, Winwick.
There is no beginning to the istory of Winwick. It goes beyond the Fourteenth Century to the earliest days of the English, to a time “when…
Lady Hill – Newton-le-Willows
I noted that some questions have been asked about Lady Hill, a barrow or not a barrow? good question, I do not think its ever been…
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