Category: Local History
AirCrash – Supermarine Attacker – 05/02/1953
Supermarine Attacker FB.1 WA535 – 05/02/1953 On Thursday 5 th February 1953 Mr Roy Edwin Collingwood (all commissioned Pilots were known as Mr) took off from…
Newton-le-Willows
To my heart there is no dearer spot upon earth, Than Newton-le-Willows, the place of my birth! Oh! The world has allurements to tempt us to…
Newton Glass Works
This Shows the location of the Glass Works In relation to Crow Lane, The Glass works (red) stands on the site where we know have the…
The Liverpool & Manchester Railway
The Cotton Trade In the latter part of the eighteenth century, the area surrounding the port of Liverpool and the growing town of Manchester was rapidly…
A history of the Vulcan Foundry
In September, 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened, and to digress, here is a brief account of the ceremony. Being one of the first…
South Lancashire Conservative Association
The South Lancashire Conservative Association has scarcely been founded three years, and yet during that short period it has enrolled as members all the talent, wealth,…
Newton Hall : Archaeological Excavation
I tried as best I could to get video of Mark Adams giving details of what they had found in their excavation, and some video of…
The Lake – Poem by J H Lane
I. FULL sixty years ago, a pretty vale (Now hidden neath the waters of the lake) Extended, in a winding course, from where The railway arches…
St Peter’s Mission & All Saints Church, Crow Lane
To the Members of the Church of England dwelling at the Earlestown end of the Parish of St. Peter, Newton-in-Makerfield. DEAR FRIENDS, For your benefit we…
St Oswald’s, Winwick Church
A FOREWORD It is with much pleasure that I commend this brief sketch of Winwick Church. To those who, like myself, have had the privilege of…
Newton in 1745
At this period the wages of an agricultural labourer were 10d per day without food, and 5d if his master provided him with meals. Carpenters and…
Earlestown Market 1938
Market successful despite removal Trading centre provided for new town. Prosperous council undertaking at Earlestown Having commenced the story in the middle and glanced at the…
Newton-in-Makerfield : yr 1825-35
NEWTON IN MACKERFIELD. NEWTON IN MACKERFIELD is a small Borough Town and Chapelry in the Parish of Winwick, and in the Hundred of West Derby; 5…
The Story of Vicars
Around a year ago, I compiled from different sources a history on one of Earlestowns oldest firms, T & T Vicars, somehow, the article has been…
Newton – The Market and Fairs
In 42nd Henry III. (1258), Robert Banastre, the fourth baron of that name, obtained the Kings charter for a fair and market at his manor of…
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