Day: 5 September 2024

1889: A “SMALL RIOT” AT BURTONWOOD.

Steven Dowd

Leigh Chronicle – Friday 20 December 1889 Nine boys named Schofield Jackson, Charles Jackson, Thomas Haverty, James Haverty, Henry Dalton, James Dalton, Joseph Dalton, James Millington, and Ernest Naylor, were charged with assaulting Thomas Dutton at Burtonwood by throwing stones on the 17th ult. Mr. H. L. Riley prosecuted, and Mr. Jenkins defended. Mr. Riley stated that his client had been a witness in several cases in which Burtonwood boys were interested, and in consequence of that he seemed to have become obnoxious to the boys who formed something like…

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1880: A walk around the Newton-le-Willows Neighbourhood.

Steven Dowd
Warrington Examiner

Letters to the Editor…Warrington Examiner – Saturday 24 April 1880 Sir, As “the mild season, that time when rain from above falling makes all things green, and springing flowers awake from sleep and hail the wished-for day,” invited to take a walk, and the time being convenient, I strolled into Burtonwood, or, as perhaps it ought to be called, Bowyer-town-wood, passing the ruins of the mill erected by T.P.L., 1793, and under the viaduct, a picturesque object, as seen from Newton Common, and on to Bradley Hall (similar in name…

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