Bimble: Rainhill

Nice station😊

I live nearby to this area and know well as a fellow cyclist I actually lol when I knew you where going up the hill at tower college it's a beast 😅

Good to see you back 👍🏻

I wonder is Glazebrook in Warrington named after Glazebrook Rylands? Probably.

Omg missed u 😊

Nice to see you back Kerion 🚴‍♀️🚲

a paul boulton defiant crashed not far away from st annes well :) the engine was never found i wonder which farmers barn it ended up in
or likely scrapped when the link way was put in
glad to see you out and about kieren

Excellent.

Also the Liverpool astronomical society is the oldest in the world.
There's also two big reservoirs dug out of the sandstone in the same area right behind the observatory.
Good to see you back and I love the tunes.
A couple of my friends got pulled up on the observatory car park some years back. They also used to go there to smoke fags😁

Thanks for the Bimble, now I know why you were at Cronton on Sunday

Good to see you are out and about mate. On our patch too at Earlestown as well. Great Bimble as always.. top info

SUPERB 🎉

Great video, great music, great voice. Best wishes Pete. PS I just wondered if you received my donation a couple of weeks ago. I'm don't know if it went through. If it didn't I send it again.

Been PEX hill a few times good to see you back mate

Thanks!

How good is this 😊
Fascinating local history very well researched
Well done Mr Bimble

Nice little tour

You forgot to mention the first railway accident happened on the same day as the Rainhill Trials. There is a monument to Thomas Huskisson who sadly died after being hit by Rocket, just east of Parkside Rd[A573] near Newton le Willows. It can only be seen from the train and only really clearly in winter. Unless you have a drone of course....

Good stuff pal.👍🚴

Brilliant as always 👍
Skew bridge is at the Liverpool end of Rainhill station platform.
It’s grade II listed & built using sandstone from the local quarry.
It’s the first skew road bridge over a railway in the world & was also a first for the 34 degree angle it was built (hence the name ‘skew’).

Good to see you back Keiran, as entertaining and informative as ever. :-) (I always watch but don't always comment as I tend to repeat myself!) Al Kennett.

I use that line too get Liverpool or Manchester. My station is Lea Green

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finally on my home turf. you went past my house near ship. which i knew could of taken you a short cut to pexhill round back of manor farm pub(which has a good history too.) many thanks

You could have mentioned the vulcan foundry and vulcan village, which came into existence as a result of Stephenson winning the contract to produce locos for the L&M railway.

Great viewing - thank you...

..."higher praise than that: been used in Hollyoaks twice..." lol. Glad you are well and recovered 🙂Best Tony (Garston).

Iv not been pex hill since it flooded about 50 years ago time to go back I think

Thanks for sharing K.🙏👍

Hello mate, can I ask where you find all your information from?

great place Rainhill nice place of history u should visit holyhead ther got some good history ther great video

My nan lives in Rainhill. I'll go and tell her all your facts and pretend I always knew 🤭

Lucky enough to have worked on that track many times , from rainhill to Astley box was on our patch at network rail

MINT!

I live in Cronton, lovely to see the quarry on your vlog.

Near the quarry in Rainhill there’s a stone cross and it’s rumoured to be the grave of Oliver Cromwell’s favourite horse 🐎

Thank you 🇨🇦

Pity you couldn't get inside St. Bart, it's incredible 😊

In St Bart’s church yard there is a large memorial to Evelyn, Princess Blücher, daughter of Frederick Stapleton-Bretherton, who married Prince Blücher, G G grandson of Marshal “Vorwärts” Blücher of Waterloo fame. She wrote a memoir of her exile to Berlin during WW1 called “An English Wife in Berlin”

Cracking Bimble, as usual. 🚴🏻‍♀️🎼🎙️

I got married in St Bart’s 25-years ago. Its stunning inside

Used to live around that area and kids went to Tower College. Never knew about the quarry! How about doing Prescot sometime? Lots of history and a very nice church to see

Great to have you back, I was starting to worry.

Hello we are coming to watch you on the 28th in Warrington. Can we sing along or is it fingers on lips x

Bobbie Goulding used to live on the close behind St Barts church I think.

Really enjoyed this. Have lived in Rainhill for the past 25 years and love the place.
Also loved the music, who is it please, would like to have a listen