Forthcoming
Society Meetings and Events

1. Meeting at the Raven Lodge Hotel,
St Helens, at 7.30pm on Thursday, September 24th:
The Macclesfield Canal - Tim Boddington

2. The Spike Island to St Helens Sponsored Walk
Sunday, October 4th - details in a later issue

3. Meeting at St Patrick's Club, off Common Road, Earlestown:
The Newton "Single Regeneration Bid" (SRB) Project
by Bob Massingham, of St Helens MBC

4. Meeting at St Patrick's Club, off Common Road, Earlestown:
The Significance of the Crossing of the Railway and
Canal at Earlestown to the Newton SRB Project
by The Revd. David Long
(Illustrated with views taken by local Railways photographer Eddie Bellas)

Photo: E.N.Bellass. British Rail's last official steam-hauled train returns to Liverpool over the Sankey Viaduct, Earlestown, in the late evening of 11th August, 1968 The Sankey Viaduct and the Sankey Canal feature in an historic event 30 years ago.