Following two years of research by a small group of committee members of Rainhill Civic Society, the village held an exhibition in St. Ann’s Parish Church to commemorate Rainhill’s part in the Great War.The free exhibition was held on the 26th and 27th September 2014, with a ‘preview’ on the evening of Thursday 25th September where […]
On 11th November 2017, the village of Latour-en-Woëvre paid their respects to soldiers who lost their lives, including those of Alfred Jones and Robert Hickes. Entente Cordiale An historic meeting took place in Metz (France) over the 2015 festive period when Moira and Kevin Dickinson were able to meet up with Edith and Bruno Vouge,
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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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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