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Written by Steven Dowd
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St. Peter's Mission
& All Saints Church In 1891 the need of services at the Earlestown end of the parish became urgent, so the Rev. H. Monk and his assistant-curate, the Rev. F. W. Johnstone, issued the following notice: | |  |
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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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From the 1911 book Victoria History of the County of Lancaster Vol 4.
This township is usually called Newton in Makerfield or Newton le Willows, to distinguish it from other places of the name. It has an area of 3,103 acres, (fn. 2) and the population in 1901 numbered 16,699. Sankey Brook and its tributary Newton Brook form the greater part of the southern boundary; the latter is joined by the Millingford Brook, which crosses the township from north to south. |
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| The Newton works, built in 1832, had started to make glass the following year, The Newton Works eventually passed into the hands of Mr William Stock, a known Liverpool glass merchant, In this particular Newton Glass Works venture William Stock appears to have been in partnership with a Mr Robert Gardner, whome its noted that William Pilkington describes as "a thoroughly go-ahead Manchester man". |  | | These men were evidently idealists, determined to stamp out the corrupt price-fixing cartel which regulated the window glass manufacture in the UK. Pilkingtons of St Helens, Chances of Birmingham and Hartleys in Sunderland dominated this scene, and werent going to take the upstarts lightly. |
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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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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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