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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Thursday 18th January, 2024 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm at Rainhill Library, View Road, Rainhill. Come and join in a special Rainhill Remembered Event when you will be trans ported back in time with our old photographs. Drop in for a cup of tea and a chat while seeing what you can identify in the
2024 Programme January 18th Afternoon Tea party at the Library
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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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Thanks for visiting our new website, where you’ll find everything you need to know about Rainhill Civic Society, our activities and how you can get involved in what we do. Here you’ll also find a vast archive of information to give you a flavour of our historic village and civil parish – not just its
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Please join us on Friday 5 May for a concert to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. The evening of music and fun takes place at Rainhill Ex-Services Club at 7.30pm on the eve of the Coronation itself, and tickets are first-come-first-served, with tickets just £5. Reserve your tickets by emailing rainhill.civic@gmail.com,
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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
