The picture above is provided courtesy of Sheila Crone and is believed to date from 1914 and shows a military band (possibly the Lancashire Hussars) marching through Rainhill. The images of children watching troops march past and messages sent from the front give an impression of what life was like in Rainhill during the First […]
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The official opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway took place on 15th September 1830. The stopping place in Rainhill was originally called Kendricks Cross Station and like most other stops of the time was without platforms or waiting rooms. It was initially situated opposite where the old signal box now stands. The current platforms
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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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