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Although the Stockton & Darling-ton Railway was the first public railway on which locomotives were used, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway was the first in the accepted sense of the word today. The scheme for a railway between the great port of Liverpool and the thriving cotton-manufacturing town of Manchester, was first entertained as a practical proposition in 1821, when a preliminary survey of the proposed line was made. The company was formed in 1824, and George Stephenson was appointed Chief Engineer in 1826. |
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Throughout the late nineteenth century St. Peters was extended and repaired.
If you click the Read More link below to see some views of St Peters on Newton High Street from the last 150 yrs. |  |
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The Vulcan Foundry had an in-house Magazine which it published quarterly from the 1940s onward, reading through the magazines I have found plenty of interesting articles, some of which I may publish later into the website.
This small story, , is a light hearted tale, and probably relates to an actual incident.. |
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I was sent this scan of a map yesterday by a visitor to the website,Its a Strip Road Map from Emanuel Bowen and John Owens Britannia Depicta.
Published between 1720 and 1764.It clearly shows Newton, though in the 1720s it seems to have been named "Newton in the Willows", the map shows Newton Hall, at the south end of the village, where it shows a small building and notes it as a hall it also shows two Mills, these are Newton mill and Red bank Mill, the text vertically down the map says "Water Mills", the road to liverpool shown at the top of the village is probably crow lane. |  |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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Volunteers were enrolled in England for the American War in 1778. They were again enrolled, in 1793-4, in consequence of the threatened invasion of revolutionary France.
In presenting the colours to St. Peters Church on July 19th 1862 the right Rev. Piers Calveley Claughton, Bishop of Colombo, said, "These colours formerly belonged to the old Newton Volunteers, when that corps was absorbed in the Wigan Local Militia. They were deposited with my father as colonel of the regiment when that service ceased." | |  |
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Found some great history about Burtonwood while surfing:-
Burtonwood is a village between the towns of St Helens and Warrington, whose history stretches back into the thirteenth century and probably further. The population has always been small in number, yet Burtonwood, for such a small village, is well known for two phenomena: its American connection and its beer!. |
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