With the church approaching it’s 150th year, I thought this newspaper account from its foundation stone ceremony would be of interest Liverpool Weekly Mercury – Saturday 07 August 1875 LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE. On Wednesday, the little town of Earlestown, in the parish of Newton-in-Makerfield, was the scene of no little excitement, being the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of a new church, to be called St. John the Baptist’s, which is about to be erected in the locality. The day was observed as a general…
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