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Written by Steven Dowd
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In the 1850's William Pilkington in St helens, operated Pilkingtons Glass Works in a market structure of oligopoly, to which the owners of Newton's Glass Works were not invited.
The result of this near monopoly, and the under-handed dealings within it, were then used by the LNWR and particularly its manager Hardman Earle to build more houses for its workers, extending the LNWR's housing stock, and thus forwarded the construction of Earlestown |
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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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Written by Steven Dowd
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| This commemorative booklet outlines the history of the Works and its development under railway ownership in the intervening hundred years when it was successively owned by the LNWR from 1853-1923; the LMS from 1923 to 1947, and by the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission from 1st January 1948 to the present date. | |  |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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Devices and Armorial Bearings of the Barons of Newton and their Kindred.
This is a fragment of the seal of Warin Banastre, son of Robert Banastre, and heir to his brother Richard, who died 23rd April, 1205.
This seal was appended to a grant in " Waletona," to one Alured, and is amongst the muniments of the Leghs of Lyme, which have supplied most of the seals here engraved. | 
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Written by Steven Dowd
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I posted last week about a newspaper article I read about a local Highway Robbery, here now are the details:
GENERAL POST OFFICE
Wednesday, November 12, 1800.
The post-Boy carrying the Mail on Horseback from WARRINGTON to WIGAN was stopt about Half-past Two oClock in the Morning of Sunday 9th inst.. between Winwick and RED Bank MIll, by a Man on Foot, who after a struggle with the Rider pulled him off his Horse which the Robber mounted, and rode away with the Mail, containing the following bags of letters, viz.
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Written by Steven Dowd
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In this year (1745) George II. was on the throne—"Dapper George" as he was called; the Porteous Riots had taken place a few years back (1736) and Porteous himself had been hanged; the Spanish War (on account of the Spaniards cruelty to English seamen) had been concluded in 1741; Walpole had gone to the House of Lords as Earl of Orford (1742); the War of the Austrian Succession (1741-48) was taking place, at which, at the battle of Dettingen, in 1743, the gallant King's horse ran away with him', being stopped with difficulty from carrying him into the enemy's lines, when George dismounted and bravely placed himself at the head of his foot soldiers, the last occasion on which an English king was ever under fire; and the Rebellion of Fortyfive had broken out, Prince Charlie with his troops having passed through Newton on his weary and unsuccessful march to London. |
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