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... resolved upon. ABOLITION OF TuRNPIKES.-Theprincipal feattiresof Mr. Whalleys bill for the abolition of turnpike trusts in the parishes of England and Wales may be briefly stated. The way in which he proposes tu get rid of the turnpikes and to provide for the ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1869
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5075 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... Warrington, on Tuesday, was tfie scene of a squabble be- tween tule London ano North- Westeri Railway Company's servants, and those of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Rail- way Courpany. The latter curallany have worked the line from Warrington to Manchestei ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2187 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

1l -MISCELLANEOUS NE

... General on Monday, asking c him to allow the company three months' respite before the C suspension of the contract. After a long conversation the E Postmaster agreed to await a month to see if the company t could make any precise arrangement.c The inquest ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5249 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE THUNDER STORMS OR LAST WEEK

... i and a verdict of 1 Found drowned returned. AaecTOe-UNDan-LTNE.-At Bardaley, the gasometer of I the Bardeley-vale Mill Company was -removed from its I 5place, and sustained some damage. The effects of the storm and floods at Mossley and, Hazlehurst ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3209 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CONTEMPORARY PRESS

... secured Mr. Lever's sup- port through the Galway job, his lordship has now gained Mr. Roebuck seemingly through Mr. Lever. Sheffield must be proud to see its representative advanced to the honour of constituting Mr. Levers tail, or at least the prime joint ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3554 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC

... welfare and interest of the people when these great monopolists come to, Parliament for their bills. The Great Western Riilway company are about to -apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act to consolidate all their former acts into one. When the ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1844
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5499 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... Folly, the reservoir of the original Preston Water Company. The tank from which the holder rises is of cast- iron, manufactured by Messrs. Newton, Chambers, and Co., of Thorneliffe, near Sheffield. It is ninety- two feet two inches internal diameter ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2818 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC

... the spot whence they proceeded, and found deceased ] on the.ground, quite dead. John Hartopp said deceased askod lim In tho turnpike-;oad whether any young man wont I safter Ann Homan? Witness replied that there had been i one or two, but not lately, at ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1839
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3905 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... instituted proceedings in the Blackburn County Court against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company for medical attendance upon a person n injured on the company's line, near the Over Darwen sta- tion. He had been sent for by the' station-master at Darwen ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5724 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... is not a large one) under from £8,000 to £10,000. THE LIVERPOOL AND PRESTON TURNPIKE TRUST. -On Tuesday, the final meeting of the trustees of the Liverpool and Preston Turnpike trust, was held at the Kings' Arms Inn, Ormskirk. Mr. B. Parr, of Aughton, ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1874
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6097 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC

... farming servant in the ser- vice of Mr. Timothy Heptenstall, of Billingley, near Dar- field. The murder was committed on the turnpike road heo tween those two places, and very near the cross roads lead- ing from Darfield to Doncaster, Pontefract, and Rotherham ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1841
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2752 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... labourers in London Docks were employed in burning a large laU, of spurious tea which had been seized by the oi the dock company. About two tons weight were demned, and it is reported that a similr quantity ?? to be destroyed. A fire broke out in the ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1851
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6180 | Page: 3 | Tags: News