Our next stop is the new town of Skelmersdale, but we're avoiding most of it, just calling in to see Blaguegate Colliery (long gone) and a former Leicester Leyland bus found at the NWRCC depot.
We now head west, to the town of Ormskirk, with its impressive parish church, seen in 2004.
A horse bus is seen outside the church.
More modern road transport is provided by Arriva.
It's market day in Ormskirk.
Here's the railway station in L&YR times.
In 1979, one of the LMS designed EMUs is seen in Ormskirk station.
Now, it's 1982. An EMU for Liverpool shares the station with a DMU on the Preston shuttle.
A BRCW DMU awaits departure, northbound, 1984.
Merseyrail 507 027 is seen at Ormskirk in 2011.
Yet another EMU departs for Liverpool, wearing two different liveries.
A famous pub in the town is the Buck I'th Vine, seen here as a Walker's house in 2004. It's still worth a visit.
Don't miss the nearby Greyhound.... they serve a decent pint.
No cask beers in the Queen's Head these days.
Apparently, the Yew Tree is "long term closed".
Just outside the town is the Hayfield, which has Holt's beers.
Close to the border between Lancashire and Merseyside is Aughton. See the map here. There's a former Burtonwood house, the Dog & Gun.
Way to the south and we're back in Merseyside, at Kirkby, where M28386M was photographed in 1987.
The Liverpool suburb of West Derby comes next, served by the city's trams.
Sadly, a former Higson's pub in West Derby, the Halton Castle, no longer serves real ale.
Leaving the city behind, we find Huyton station and its ex LMS signal box.
St Helens and District Tramways No 34 at the Blue Bell pub in Huyton. THe pub shown has long vanished.
To the east is Rainhill, on the old Liverpool & Manchester Railway. 1980 saw the commemoration of 150 years of that railway with a parade of locomotives and rolling stock. Pride of place went to Stephenson's Rocket, followed by a grand selection of others.
Outside the station is the Commercial, a former Higson's house.
And that's where we'll end this post. Next time, a look at St Helens.
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