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McCorquodale was the son of Hugh McCorquodale and Lucia Hall. He started his printing career in Liverpool, opening a stationers shop, Liverpool Printing and Stationery Co. Ltd, in 1841, [1] then founding McCorquodale & Co Ltd in Newton-le-Willows in 1846, taking over and converting the former South Lancashire Conservative Association Hall. [2]
Newton-le-Willows racecourse closed down in 1898 and was replaced by Haydock Park Racecourse. The Old Newton Cup is the world's oldest continually competed for trophy, with a history dating back over 200 years. Football has always been an important sport within the town, and Newton-le-Willows had its own club between 1894 and 1908. Newton-le ...
Vulcan Newton was a works team associated with the Vulcan Foundry, an English locomotive builder, in what was then Lancashire. The early history of the club is now unclear but the team did play in the Warrington & District League winning the league title in 1923–24.
Shop: 1866: 14 October 1974 ... Olympia Social Club: Liverpool: Bingo Hall: 1985: 14 March 1975 ... Newton-le-Willows: Arch: Early 19th century: 12 February 1981
Historically part of Lancashire, Ashton-in-Makerfield was a township in the parish of Newton-in-Makerfield (as Newton-le-Willows was once known), Winwick and hundred of West Derby. With neighbouring Haydock, Ashton-in-Makerfield was a chapelry, but the two were split in 1845.
The racecourse is set in an area of parkland bounded by the towns of Haydock to the west, Ashton-in-Makerfield to the north, Golborne to the east and Newton-le-Willows to the south. Horse racing had been run in Newton for many years (the great racemare Queen of Trumps won at Newton in 1836), [2] and the venue was also used for hare coursing in ...
The main town in the district is St Helens, the others being Newton-le-Willows and Earlestown. Until the Industrial Revolution , the area was largely rural. Coal mining began in the 16th century, but modern industrial development began with the construction of the Sankey Canal in the late 18th century, linking St Helens with the River Mersey .
Newton-le-Willows has held a market by Royal Charter since the 14th century. By the 1890s, the Earlestown area of Newton-le-Willows had outgrown the older part of the town and so the market was moved to its current location in Earlestown and the market square is the town's centre-piece.