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NEWS FROM THE GATEACRE SOCIETY (Nov.2012):
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JOHN NEWTON AT
THROSTLE
NEST
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We have received an email from the John Newton Project, a registered charity dedicated to the anti-slavery campaigner (but former slave-ship captain) the Reverend John Newton.
In the 1750s Newton lived in Liverpool, where he worked as the town's tide surveyor, and a researcher has discovered that for some of this time he was staying as the guest of Thomas Hales at Throstle Nest, Belle Vale Road, Gateacre. If you have any information about the Hales family or about Throstle Nest, please let us know.
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The Ordnance Survey map above, drawn in 1904, shows the location of Throstle Nest on the east side of Belle Vale Road, just north of the former Cheshire Lines Railway (though of course the railway did not exist in John Newton's day).
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Page created 14 Nov 2012 by MRC, last updated 15 Nov 2012
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