{"id":1031,"date":"2012-04-12T02:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newton-le-willows.com\/wp\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2018-04-19T19:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T19:41:19","slug":"newton-le-willows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"<span>Newton-le-Willows<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my heart there is no dearer spot upon earth,<br \/>\nThan Newton-le-Willows, the place of my birth!<br \/>\nOh! The world has allurements to tempt us to roam,<br \/>\nBut it cannot supply the endearments of home. Dear Newton! Ill sing of thy sylvan retreats,<br \/>\nOf thy lanes, and thy tree-shaded dwellings and streets,<br \/>\nOf thy bridge oer the brook with its vista of bloom&#8211;<br \/>\nA vision of beauty and store of perfume!<\/p>\n<p>I will sing of thy ancient, historical hall<br \/>\nNear the old ruined mill with its miniature falls<br \/>\nThe strangers delight from the railway espied,<br \/>\nAnd to home-loving native the pleasure and pride<\/p>\n<p>I will sing of thy beautiful breeze-rippled lake;<br \/>\nWhere in childhood we made the glad echoes awake,<br \/>\nAnd sailed on its bosom, and fished in its stream,<br \/>\nAnd disported ourselves in the warm sunny beam<\/p>\n<p>I will sing of thy hill by the side of the mere,<br \/>\nTo which we resorted as evening drew near,<br \/>\nWhere we fervently told of the depth of our love,<br \/>\nWhile the moon mildly beamed thro the branches above<\/p>\n<p>I will sing of thy schools, to our infancy dear,<br \/>\nAnd the teachers whose memories we love and revere,<br \/>\nWho did idleness censure and industry praise,<br \/>\nAnd exhorted us ever to shun evil ways.<\/p>\n<p>I will sing of thy church?it is good to be there,<br \/>\nTo join in its service of praise and of prayer,<br \/>\nAnd to list to the parson expounding the Word,<br \/>\nOr persuading to piety those who have erred.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet Newton-le-Willows ! how fain would I rest<br \/>\nMid thy beautiful scenes with the friends I love best ;<br \/>\nAnd, spending our moments in labours of love,<br \/>\nGain a foretaste below of the pleasures above.<\/p>\n<p>-John. Henry. Lane<br \/>\n____________________________________<br \/>\nfrom J H Lanes 1914, Vol I History of Newton in Makerfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my heart there is no dearer spot upon earth, Than Newton-le-Willows, the place of my birth! Oh! The world has allurements to tempt us to roam, But it cannot supply the endearments of home. Dear Newton! Ill sing of thy sylvan retreats, Of thy lanes, and thy tree-shaded dwellings and streets, Of thy bridge oer the brook with its vista of bloom&#8211; A vision of beauty and store of perfume! I will sing of thy ancient, historical hall Near the old ruined mill with its miniature falls The strangers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,9],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-hstory","category-newton-history","tag-newton-le-willows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newton-le-willows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}