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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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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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While searching details on newton, i came upon these details about the Banastre Family, who have many local links :-
Sir Adam BANASTRE held various lands in the Parish of Standish, including Shevington, and in 1315 he led a group of insurgents against Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and his favourite Sir Robert HOLLAND, who was regarded as an upstart. Generally speaking the cause of the friction lay between the Earl and King Edward II (1307-1327). The Banastre Rebellion was fought by many close neighbours of Sir Adam BANASTRE including Sir Henry de LEA of Park Hall in Charnock Richard, Sir William BRADSHAW of Haigh and Henry de DUXBURY.
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Written by Steven Dowd
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Today I managed to transcribe some poems written by J H Lane, which he published in 1916 in a small 40 page booklet called "Newton le Willows - Pictures and Verse".
Most of the Pictures from the book have already made it into the photo gallery, as they duplicate ones in his other two publications, as do some of the verse from the book, but here are three small sections of verse which are new to me. |
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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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| On the April 13th, 1858, a meeting was held in the Assembly-room, High-street, Newton-le-Willows, for the formation of a cricket club, W. Mercer, Esq., in the chair. A sum of upwards of £50 was announced as subscribed in the room. | |  | |
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