I am trying to set up a web site relating to Burtonwood, I was raised there until I came to Canada in 1987 and the only sites I can find are about the Brewery or the Base. I used to play under the Viaduct and look for old bottles at the side of the tracks, we did actually find quite a few over the years, and spent an awful lot of time playing on "The Mucky Mountains", and "stealing candy" from Sankey Sugar Works! I also spent a lot of time fishing the Canal with my granddad, of course this was in the good old days when you could wander off without your parents getting to worried.

I just wondered if you could point me in any direction for any info. re. Burtonwood and the Canal from St Helens through to Winwick or of any pictures. Also, just for my own curiosity, has anyone ever made a list of who Jumped or fell off the viaduct? I personally know of two people that died that way.

[My response: 'Any gory details to relate? It's not a subject which has been raised during recent Talks we've had about the Viaduct.', brought this reply: ]

One of the guys, I knew, was a guy named Ian Tyrer, he was originally from B'wood but was living in Earlestown. It was in the last 10yrs I think, I know it was after we left. The other was a guy, if I remember right his last name was Tyldesley and he was from B'wood. He fell off while walking home from a night out in Earlestown.

Lyn Boczek, Corunna, Ontario, Canada (Ex. Burtonwood)
My maiden name was Parkins, and I used to live on Karen Close

Could you possibly send details of SCARS, please - meeting place & times? Thanks.
Joyce Ireland

From: dorward@wenet.net (Jack Dorward) (USA)

This morning, I was visitor 463 at your Sankey site. During the summer of year 2000, Sandy and I hope to cruise the L & L and be within visiting distance of the Sankey canal. Your Sankey web site was so impressive that I bookmarked it for later reference, as I'm busy packing for my flight to Heathrow this coming Monday morning. Hope to cross paths with you this summer.

From: Tim.Griffiths Subject: View from the M62...

I was just wondering whether the wide lock visible to the left of the M62 (travelling from Liverpool towards Manchester) next to railway line just after IKEA is one of yours! I keep seeing it and I can't work out which canal it is and not knowing is driving me mad.

[The following emails resulted from my telling him it was the Sankey’s Winwick Lock.]

Do you post details of forthcoming working parties on your web-site? I've been trying to find a 'northerly' WRG work party for some time but they seem to stop at Lichfield, and most appear to be round Basingstoke! If you let me know how to find the dates I'll see which I can make.

Thanks for the reply - I'll contact Colin in a few weeks (I'm away for a bit soon!).

Is the 'Sankey' well marked on OS maps? If it is I can probably include it in the mapping software I am doing for another site.