In April 2019, along with two information boards displaying details of our new heritage trails, green plaques were installed around Rainhill Village, drawing attention to the importance of six well-known Rainhill landmarks. They were Kendrick’s Cross, St Ann’s Old Schoolhouse, the site of the Rainhill Trials, the skew bridge, and the Commercial and Victoria hotels. […]
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Welcome to the second of the two Rainhill Heritage Trails. It is believed that the name ‘Reynhull’ is derived from the name ‘Regna’. The ‘sub-manor’ was held by Roger de Rainhill in the 13th Century and after the death of his son, was divided into two parts – one part came into the possession of
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Welcome to the first of the two Rainhill Heritage Trails. The Rainhill Locomotive Trials in 1829 put Rainhill on the map! During the 18th century, Rainhill was a small agricultural community with scattered farms, a cluster of houses at Kendricks Cross and another at the Stoops. Sandstone for building was quarried locally and watch tool-making
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On Wednesday 24 April 2019, Christine Scott, president of Rainhill Civic Society unveiled two new information boards showing Heritage Walks in Rainhill. These were designed and partly funded by the Society. Funding was also provided via the Councillor Improvement Fund (CIF). Ward Councillors Barry Grunwald and Joe De Asha and the Clerk to the Parish
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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first successful passenger carrying railway in the world, was begun in 1826. Routed around the estates of the Earls of Sefton and Derby, the line crossed the Liverpool – Warrington turnpike road at Kendrick’s Cross, in the centre of today’s Rainhill Village. The oblique angle at which the line
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The Rainhill Remembers website was launched on Remembrance Sunday 2015 by the Heritage Group of Rainhill Civic Society, and its contents are reproduced here on the new Rainhill Civic Society website, launched in 2024. Initially, the main focus of the website was the impact of the Great War on the village of Rainhill and here you
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Rainhill Civic Society have been looking at the two overmantel wall painting in the Manor Farm Pub In June 2023 we asked Lisa Shekede and Stephen Rickerby, world famous wall painting conservators to look and assess the paintings. In their report they noted with great excitement that the manor paintings are rare survivals- few overmantel
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In the early 1900’s Rainhill County Lunatic Asylum had over 3000 patients, reputedly making it the largest asylum in Europe. It was demolished in the early 1990’s and subsequently replaced by the Reeve Retirement Village and a housing development. At the time of the First World War, Rainhill Asylum was extremely over-crowded with 2395 patients. 110
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Before it was established as the first WW1 hospital in Rainhill, ‘The Tower’ was a private residence. It was built in 1880 for Henry Baxter and his family. In January 1914, a branch of St John’s Ambulance Association was established at a public meeting in St Helens. Voluntary Aid Detachments 42 and 44 were formed
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Rainhill is situated in the north west of England, about 10 miles (16km) east of the city of Liverpool. It forms the southern-most portion of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens. To its southeast lies Halton in Cheshire and to the west and south the borough of Knowsley. There was a settlement at Rainhill as
