In its early history, it was a hamlet of the nearby village of Rastrick.

A wooden structure called Rastrick Bridge was recorded in 1275.

Brighouse was the original home of the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, founded in 1881 and associated with neighbouring Rastrick.

The parish of Rastrick was recorded on 1 July 1837 as part of the Halifax Registration District.

The traditional north western boundary between Elland and Rastrick was the edge of the escarpment, but the Elland Ward boundary is further east, encompassing parts of the old parish of Rastrick as far as Dewsbury Road and the crossroads with New Hey Road.

Rastrick was the birthplace of religious writer Margaret Barber who wrote under the pseudonym Michael Fairless, and the eccentric inventor Wilf Lunn.

There was thus a division in the L & MR board between those who supported Stephenson's " loco-motive " and those who favoured cable haulage, the latter supported by the opinion of the engineer, John Rastrick.

The famous Stourbridge Lion locomotive, was built in Stourbridge at the foundry of Foster, Rastrick and Co. in 1828.

) The platform accommodation was built by John Urpeth Rastrick and consisted of four pitched roofs each.

The parliamentary act for the line was passed in 1821 and construction was completed in 1826, the route having been surveyed by the railway promoter William James and engineered by John Urpeth Rastrick.

Stourbridge Lion was one of these three locomotives built by Rastrick, but Stephenson's shop had completed their locomotive, the Pride of Newcastle before any of Rastrick's locomotives.

The engineer for the new railway was John Urpeth Rastrick, who began construction in 1838.

: Built by Slaughter, Grüning and Company, it was probably named after James Foster of Foster, Rastrick and Company.

Foster, Rastrick and Company was one of the pioneering steam locomotive manufacturing companies of England.

Rastrick was one of the judges at the Rainhill Trials in 1829.

Work was started by September, engineered by John Urpeth Rastrick, with the route crossing a valley with the London Road viaduct then running through the South Downs to Falmer before descending down to Lewes, with a station at.

In this position, he designed the Stourbridge Lion, which was built by Foster, Rastrick and Company of England.

John Urpeth Rastrick ( 26 January 1780 – 1 November 1856 ) was one of the first English steam locomotive builders.

The partnership between Rastrick and Hazledine was a troubled one, ending in a dispute in 1817.

In 1829 Rastrick was commissioned with James Walker to report on the economics of using either rope haulage or locomotives on the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

* John Urpeth Rastrick, 1780 – 1856, railway engineer born in Morpeth January 26, 1780

Three notable figures from the early days of engineering were selected as judges: John Urpeth Rastrick, a locomotive engineer of Stourbridge, Nicholas Wood, a mining engineer from Killingworth with considerable locomotive design experience and John Kennedy, a Manchester cotton spinner and a major proponent of the railway.

As early as 1842 John Urpeth Rastrick had proposed that the railway should therefore build a branch to serve the West End, but his proposal came to nothing.

* Ironworks, particularly the Stourbridge Ironworks of John Bradley & Co, which included the engineering works of Foster, Rastrick and Company, which made the Stourbridge Lion, the first train to run on American railways and the Agenoria, another important early locomotive.

From 1837 he worked for John Urpeth Rastrick on railway projects including the London and Brighton Railway and the unbuilt West Cumberland and Furness Railway.

* John Urpeth Rastrick retires from Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that built the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

James Foster, an ironmaster, and John Urpeth Rastrick, an engineer, became partners in 1816, forming the company in 1819.

After five years at Ketley, Rastrick partnered with John Hazledine, in Bridgnorth, Shropshire.

During his partnership with John Hazledine, Rastrick married Sarah Jervis ( or Jarvis ) on 24 December 1810 at Codsall, Staffordshire.

* John Urpeth Rastrick.

* Bedwell, Carolyn ( 2002 ), John Urpeth Rastrick.

* June 24-James Foster and John Urpeth Rastrick partner to form Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that built the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

* Bedwell, Carolyn ( 2002 ), John Urpeth Rastrick.

Foster also formed a subsidiary partnership with John Urpeth Rastrick in Stourbridge which traded as Foster, Rastrick and Company.

* November 1-John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company ( b. 1780 ).

* January 26-John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company ( died 1856 ).< ref >

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

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By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

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On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

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