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Written by Steven Dowd
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Sat 1st march 2003 was the 150th Aniversary for the signing of the lease for the land on which Earlestown is built upon, I managed to take a few photos of the celebration of this event, which I will add later into the new photo gallery, I shall try to get the new gallery added to the website over the next few days, just need to clean and edit a few of the images first, If you click the Read More link below you can see a panoramic that I made showing the march stopping for a small service at the War Memorial outside Earlestown Town Hall ..
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Written by Steven Dowd
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| The Newton works, built in 1832, had started to make glass the following year, The Newton Works eventually passed into the hands of Mr William Stock, a known Liverpool glass merchant, In this particular Newton Glass Works venture William Stock appears to have been in partnership with a Mr Robert Gardner, whome its noted that William Pilkington describes as "a thoroughly go-ahead Manchester man". |  | | These men were evidently idealists, determined to stamp out the corrupt price-fixing cartel which regulated the window glass manufacture in the UK. Pilkingtons of St Helens, Chances of Birmingham and Hartleys in Sunderland dominated this scene, and werent going to take the upstarts lightly. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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 St Peters
In the tour are Seven panoramic views, they are all quite large image files, so please be patient, as i would imagine they could take upto a minute each to download fully, but I think you will like the results
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Written by Steven Dowd
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Earlestown Baptist Church was founded in 1871 but had to be demolished in 2001 due to extensive wet and dry rot. Their Fellowship now meet in the Newton Methodist Church Hall. A decision was made to keep a Baptist Fellowship in the Newton-le-Willows area and a fundraising group was formed four years ago to try to obtain the necessary funds to erect a new building.
They are halfway to the target of three hundred thousand pounds. The new building will provide a centre for community activities and multi-agency accommodation. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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This is one of the many photos which I managed to take Sat 1st march 2003, at the "150th Aniversary" celebration to commemorate the lease signing for the land on which Earlestown is built upon, If you click the Read More link below you can see a panoramic that I made showing the march stopping outside the NewMarket Pub, Earlestown Market ..
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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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Dean School House is situated in Rob Lane, Newton-le-Willows, formerly Newton-in-Makerfield.
Originally built in the late 17th century as a school, it ceased operating in this capacity sometime between the late 17th and mid 18th centuries. |  |
It was then used for domestic purposes and still is today. However, it had fallen derelict by the 1960s and was rebuilt during the 1970s. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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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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| 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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A few days ago I spent the afternoon in Newton-le-Willows Library reading through and transcribing the Newton & Earlestown referances from the 1895 Kelly Lancashire Directory
I have attempted to transcribe most all the details from the Newton-le-Willows, Earlestown chapters along with some Ashton-in-Makerfield, Haydock and Golborne sections. |
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Written by Steven Dowd
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A VISIT TO THE WORKS OF THE VULCAN FOUNDRY,
NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS 8th APRIL, 1927.
By the kind invitation of Mr. S. Whalley, General Manager of the Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Newton-le-Willows, a party of members of the Manchester Centre visited the locomotive works on Friday, 8th April, 1927.
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Written by Steven Dowd
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A VISIT TO THE VULCAN FOUNDRY LIMITED,
NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, 5th MAY 1954
A party made up of approximately 50 members of the Manchester Centre arrived by motor coach and car in time to start on a tour of the works of the Vulcan Foundry Ltd. shortly after 6.60 p.m. on 5th May 1954 by kind invitation of the directors. |
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