Cronton.
A small selection pf photographs taken as I have walked through the village and the surrounding district. There are other pictures of buildings in the village that could have been added had I passed by them on my walks.
Around Rainhill
Rainhill in Lancashire was the site of the 1829 Rainhill Locomotive Trials held on the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway and won by the Rocket designed by George Stephenson.
Rainhill also boasts the Skew Bridge, it is the world's first bridge to cross over a railway at an angle and the Liverpool Manchester Railway the world's first inter-city passenger railway service that runs through the village
Stadt Moers (Country) Park, Lancashire
Stadt Moers Park covers more than 220 acres in Whiston and Huyton with, meadow, woodland and pond habitats, with a network of footpaths and tracks. The area had a long history of coal mining, before Tushingham's Brickworks was built in the 1890s. By 1976 the works were derelict and much of today's park was used as a landfill site for domestic refuse.
In the early 1980’s the Groundwork Trust and Knowsley Council created Stadt Moers Park, naming it after Knowsley’s Twin town of Moers in Germany.
The Park is divided into four 'areas' by the Liverpool to Manchester Railway and M57 Motorway.
1 - Pluckington, 2 - Pottery Fields, 3 - Wet View and 4 - Tushingham.
(This is a large album)
Along Sankey Brook - St.Helens Canal
The Sankey Canal was originally known as the Sankey Brook Navigation and later the St.Helens Canal, entirely located within Lancashire, in the northwest of England, connecting St.Helens with the River Mersey.
This album is in 4 sections:
1- St.Helens, 2 - Widnes, 3 - Spike Island, 4 - Widnes to Fidlers Ferry
The Whiston Incline
This Article is:
a collection of photographs covering a short stretch of the Liverpool to Manchester railway line starting at Whiston along the Whiston Incline to Rainhill station.
With additional sections for the Locomotive Trials Exhibition in Rainhill and also the Huskinson Memorial, Parkside.