Month: November 2024

Vulcan Foundry: Locomotive History

Steven Dowd
The ENUII Website

Not sure how many people ever visited the ENUII website which Graeme Pilkington had put online, with its history of the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, unfortunatly his website went offline a few months ago, and his domain name was then purchased by an internet advertising company. I contacted Graeme the person who put together the ENUII website and the result is that he has found for me an old 2015 backup of the ENUII website content, I’ve uploaded this into my webspace. It seemed a shame to lose the resource.…

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The Lake – Poem by J H Lane

Steven Dowd

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 span the road and brook, To Castle Hill, and thence, diverging, ran Eastwards to Golborne Dale, and westwards joined The little sylvan valley of the Dene. Adown each vale a rippling streamlet flowed, Which, at the hill commingling, journeyed on Twixt flowery banks, and murmured past the spot Where now the strong embankment separates The winding lake and willow-shaded brook, Until it reached the…

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