Rainhill is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. The population at the 2011 census was 10,853. Historically...
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The Rainhill trials was an important competition run from the 6 to 14 October 1829, to test George Stephenson's argument that locomotives would have the...
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Rainhill Hall or Loyola Hall is a Grade II listed country house built in the 19th century in Rainhill, Merseyside, England, by Bartholomew Bretherton...
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Rainhill Hospital was a very large psychiatric hospital complex that was located in Rainhill, Merseyside, England. Founded in 1851 as the then Third Lancashire...
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Rainhill is a civil parish in St Helens, Merseyside, England. It contains 21 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated...
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Stephenson's Rocket (category Rainhill Trials locomotives)
steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), held in October...
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Frederick Bailey Deeming (section Rainhill)
responsible for the murder of his first wife Marie and their four children at Rainhill, England, on or about 26 July 1891; and a second wife, Emily Mather, at...
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Rainhill railway station serves the village of Rainhill in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the electrified northern route of the Liverpool to Manchester...
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George Stephenson (redirect from Rainhill Skew Bridge)
arranged a competition to decide who would build its locomotives, and the Rainhill Trials were run in October 1829. Entries could weigh no more than six tons...
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Rainhill High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Rainhill, Merseyside, England. The school is the official Liverpool...
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