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Written by Steven Dowd
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This article shows a sample of the video I managed to take, at the archeaological excavation of the old Newton Hall in Feb 2006, The excavation was undertaken by National Museums Liverpool Field Archaeology Unit, Mark Adams from the unit, gives an account of their findins, and the site is visited by the last inhabitants, Stan & John Boydell. |
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 |  | On Sunday 18 September 1955 several founder members of the R. & C.C.S. visited Rainhill, Parkside, Newton and other historic places on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. This is a short history of the railway, prepared earlier the same year by G.O. Holt for the Railway and Canal Historical Society, I transcribed this from the publication they produced |
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 | Everton FC beat Earlestown 1-0 in a match played at Evertons homeground of Priory Rd, this 1-0 victory over Earlestown in the Liverpool Cup of 1884 gained Everton its first ever football trophy.
Shortly after their success over Earlestown, John Houldings Everton Club were asked to vacate their Priory Road home ground. Anfield was leased and the new ground built in 1884 | | The first match Everton played at their new Anfield football ground was on September 27, 1884, this first match was against Earlestown, who were beaten 5-0, this was six years before Liverpool Football Club was formed. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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| I recently purchased an old newspaper from 1830, which had amongst its pages an account of a train derailment at the top of the embankment for the Sankey Viaduct, The incident happened on the night of the 23-24th Sept 1830. |  | | Since the railway only had been opened but one week previous to this date, I wonder whether this account would class as the worlds first derailment accident of a passenger locomotive. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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For anyone interested in Census data for the local area I have a test website online, The website is for my genealogy databases, It also has St Michaels Church records from burtonwood, searchable for Births from 1Nov 1668 and Deaths from 29 Oct 1783.
Click this link for the census data
This test website has most of the available 2% 1851 census data for the UK, and also the 1891 Census Data for the Newton le willows local area, its a fully searchable database, which I formatted from transcripts whilst on a recent 5 week hospital stay, if you have anything to add to this database, or if you find information thats transcribed wrongly , please email me and i will try to get it changed asap thanks - 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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