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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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Mr. Rylance is a born raconteur, as the many admirers of his angling yarns and other stories, which have appeared in "The Warrington Examiner," have long realised. These reminiscences of Newton Races, presenting telling word-pictures in minute detail of the sordid, the pathetic, and the seamy side of the racecourse, written by the master-hand of a keen observer of Nature, who is also a clean and unerring humorist, will give permanence to nineteenth century scenes that must inevitably pass before the advent of improvements and inventions that affect even the fair ground entertainer and the racecourse swindler. |
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I managed to get some photos of Castle Hill earlier today, and have started to add these to the growing collection. I was quite surprised to see that paths and wooden walkways have been added to the Castle Hill area, the work has improved greatly the access to the Mound, but I wonder how many people in newton will ever benefit from the work, I suspect many have never visited it, many not even knowing about it.
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Written by Steven Dowd
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On the southern boundary of the township of Newton, a wooded valley branches off east-wards from the Wigan-Warrington road. The northern side of the valley, known locally as Red Bank, formed the boundary of old Newton Park Estate, and was marked by a high man-made bank with a hedge running along it. On the opposite side of the valley, which is about 100 yards wide, stands a natural steep-sided sandstone bank, which in-places is between twenty and thirty feet high, In the year 1648 this was also probably topped by a hedge.
The valley and surrounding fields are the site of the English Civil War "Battle of Winwick Pass"
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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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Sir Hardman Earle | Hardman Earle was born 11 JUL 1792, and died 25 JAN 1877, for Earlestown one of the most important days of his life was the 1st March 1853, This was the day that 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
In 1853 there were only around 30 houses available for the viaduct workers but as the foundry became busier, it expanded and the houses and town that was built for the men and their families was called Earlestown after Sir Hardman Earle.
By 1860 there were more than 600 houses in Earlestown. |
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