All Saints Church
The Band on Walking Day
Rainford Village Station
Crosspit Lane level crossing looking towards Maypole Cottage and The Lodge on the Muncaster Hall Estate
Rainford Village Station
Rookery Station
Rainford Junction
Rainford Junction Station
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Southern’s Lane wooden bridge over the line to Rainford Junction
The Eagle & Child pub (left) and the Old School House (right)
John Winstanley’s clay pipe workshop, Ormskirk Road
Rosbotham’s School, Higher Lane
Old National School, Ormskirk Road with the schoolmaster’s house behind
Rainford Potteries, Mill Lane
Laithwaite’s clay pipe workshop on the site of Rainford library
The Golden Lion pub from the church tower
Charabanc
Walking Day
The Richardson family haymaking at Church House (now site of Parish Hall)
Mary and Annie Blackburn from Victoria Colliery Farm
Cottages opposite the Image Houses at Church Road
Wedding at Muncaster Hall
All Saints Church, Church Road
Scavenging for coal at Siding Lane colliery during 1912 national coal strike
Rainford colliery in Siding Lane
Muncaster Hall
Locomotive and wagon belonging to the Victoria Colliery situated between Crosspit Lane and Old Lane
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Pilkington’s aerial ropeway across the by-pass between Pasture Lane and Mill Lane carrying sand from nearby fields to the Sandwash
Lych gate at All Saints Church
Congregational Church, Higher Lane
Rainford House, demolished for houses and shops on Arnian Road and West View
School trip
Clay pipes
Steam engine
John Winstanley using a clay pipe mould in his workshop near the Bridge Inn
Mrs Cowman
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