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Written by Steven Dowd
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| Recently I was told about an aircrash that occurred in the 1950s near to the Vulcan Village, Newton. I had never heard about this, and so decided to lookup some details about the incident, after a few enquiries I discovered their was indeed such an crash, and that the remains of the aircraft, a Supermarine Attacker, were recently recovered by LAIT, the Lancashire Aircraft Investigation Team.
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| If you click the Read More link below, You can read the reports on the incident, kindly provided by Nick Wotherspoon of LAIT and by Mark Gaskell of the South Lancashire Aviation Team. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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THE BRIDGEWATER Canal is rightly hailed as a masterpiece of civil engineering, but there is a big argument about its place in the history of inland navigation.
Its proponents claim the Bridgewater was the first "true" canal in Britain, but others believe that title should go to our own local Sankey Navigation. | 
a sankey Canal Flat |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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On 1st March 1853, the London and North Western Railway, under the direction of Sir Hardman Earle, leased from Messrs. Jones & Potts a small works known as the Viaduct Foundry, so named for its proximity to Stephensons famous viaduct carrying the Liverpool and Manchester Railway over the St. Helens Canal. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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I found whilst adding information into the History section the population figures for Newton from census reports dating back to 1801
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Written by Steven Dowd
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Railway share certificates, in common with other railway ephemera, have been and always will be desirable, and thus they fetch consistently high prices in relation to other similarily aged and engraved pieces ? especially shares of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (henceforth referred to as the L&M). |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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THE EARLY DAYS - 1830.
George Stephenson had made many improvements to the Steam Locomotive, the Stockton and Darlington Railway had been in operation for five years, and in the same year the Vulcan Foundry came into being, founded by Charles Tayleur in partnership with George Stephenson and his son Robert, and trading as "Tayleur & Stephenson". |
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