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Written by Steven Dowd
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| This is a brief history, with some details and diagrams of the local North-South route through Lancashire of the M6 Motorway, with particular reference to that part of the M6 in close proximity to Newton-le-Willows. |
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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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 | 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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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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| 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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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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