My Lancashire - My accounts of the local area

A Compendious History of The North Union Railway A Compendious History of The North Union Railway A COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY:  COMPRISING AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH; THE PROSPECTIVE ADVANTAGES OF THE RAILWAY; ITS STATISTICS; A DELINEATION OF THE OPERATIONS WHICH HAVE MARKED ITS PROGRESS; A DETAILED REFERENCE TO ALL THE IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE ROUTE- videlicet, THE TUNNELS, VIADUCTS, GRADIENTS, &C.; ALSO A STATEMENT OF THE FACILITIES FOR TRANSIT PRESENTED BY THE VARIOUS CONNECTING LINES OF BAILWAY; AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LOCALITIES OF THE RAIL-WAY, AND THE PHENOMENA WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN ITS CONSTRUCTION. CHAPTER III. JOURNEY FROM PRESTON TO WIGAN. Concluded . The railway from the south end of Euxton Valley Embankment is continued over almost a level plain, to the Yarrow valley, and across it another road leads to Chorley from Eccleston. We are instantly at the bottom of the incline, and upon  THE TIMBER VIADUCT, Over the Yarrow. At the east side...

A Compendious History of The North Union Railway A Compendious History of The North Union Railway A COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY: COMPRISING AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH; THE PROSPECTIVE ADVANTAGES OF THE RAILWAY; ITS STATISTICS; A DELINEATION OF THE OPERATIONS WHICH HAVE MARKED ITS PROGRESS; A DETAILED REFERENCE TO ALL THE IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE ROUTE- videlicet, THE TUNNELS, VIADUCTS, GRADIENTS, &C.; ALSO A STATE-MENT OF THE FACILITIES FOR TRANSIT PRESENTED BY THE VARIOUS CONNECTING LINES OF BAILWAY; AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LOCALITIES OF THE RAILWAY, AND THE PHENOMENA WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN ITS CONSTRUCTION. CHAPTER I. If we might judge from the great exploits, achievements, and undertakings of man, we should almost be led to pronounce that nothing was too great-nothing too insurmountable for his exertions. By the power of his might, and the obstinacy of his labour, difficulties that raise their heads like mountains of granite, crumble into insignificance, and...

MONUMENT TO THE LATE JOHN HORROCKS, ESQ., M.P.  Sometimes, perhaps often, things are not quite what they seem. I had been on an intermittent 'wild goose chase' looking for this monument.  I visited St. Mary's Church in Penwortham on several occasions, and whilst it wasn't the sole purpose of my visits, I was always keeping an eye out for it.  The fatal flaw was that I had made an assumption that it was outside.  I can't remember how I came to realise otherwise, but the item is safe inside the church protected from the elements.  By the time I had come to this conclusion, I had completed several dozen laps of the church graveyard.  This information is taken from the Preston Chronicle of Saturday 15th August 1863 (Issue 2692)   MONUMENT TO THE LATE JOHN HORROCKS, ESQ., M.P. Within the last few weeks, a very handsome monumental tablet has been placed in Penwortham Church, to the memory of this remarkable man, by his nephew, Mr. Walter Horrocks Whitehead, ...

The Ghost Road remains of a small section of the A49 A Cat's eye on the Ghost Road remains of the A49 The A49 is a major north-south A road in western England that runs for almost 150 miles from Bamber Bridge in Lancashire to Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire. It was modified in the Cuerden area at the end of the last century. This was done during the creation of the M65 motorway, which was constructed in stages over a sixteen-year period, with building work starting in March 1978 and finishing with the final western connection in December 1997. The original course of the road in this area was altered slightly to push it slightly further west and to straighten the section that now passes under the M65. Some of the A49s original path was built over by the M65 carriageways, but there is a short section that still remains after being cut off.  That lies within, or next to (dependant on landownership), an area to the north of Cuerden Park that was cut off from the the rest of the park ...