St Helens History This Week

Bringing History to Life from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago!

Bringing History to Life from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago!

ST HELENS 150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
This page is a series of weekly articles that describe llfe in the Lancashire town in the 1870s and which are updated every Sunday morning.
150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
This page is a series of weekly articles that describe llfe in St Helens in Lancashire in the 1870s and which are updated every Sunday morning.
Whiston Workhouse plaque summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 JANUARY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the reckoning Monday row in Thatto Heath that led to a violent assault, the horseplay at the Holt in Rainhill that had potentially serious consequences for the offender, the railway shunter's coal stealing, the perils of going to work on the railway line at 4am, the St Helens Chemical Company is charged with fouling the Atlas Street sewer and the St Helens seedsman's stolen watch turns up after a year and there's a stiff penalty for the man who had it.
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St Helens County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 JANUARY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the annual ball of the 47th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, the renewal of interest in the creation of a Mersey Tunnel, the case of a bottle of beer that was bought from a Nutgrove pub on a Sunday, the boy who was sent to prison for stealing his mother's dress, the Parr rabbit trap that was known as a grin and the death of a Sutton pit sinker employed at what would become Bold Colliery.
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Griffin Inn summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 JANUARY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Oddfellows' generosity towards a blind miner, the mysterious deaths of three men whose bodies had lain in the St Helens Canal for over a month, the Parr boy who died after stirring up the kitchen fire, the battered wife who changed her mind over court action, the Sutton woman who died through injuring her ankle in a fall and the runaway husband who showed a rare bit of common sense.
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Gerard Arms, summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 DEC 1874 - 5 JAN 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the annual nosh-ups for the aged poor of Parr and Eccleston, the St Helens mayor's fall from grace on the icy pavements of Manchester, the friendless man that died over Christmas, Cinderella continues at the Theatre Royal, Sir Robert Gerard's court baron at the Gerard Arms, the fearful railway accidents and St Helens Cricket Club decide to hire a professional to boost their skills.
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School Brow Rainford summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 DECEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the glitzy Christmas pantomime performed at the Theatre Royal, the typhoid fever in Rainford blamed on poor quality well water, the distribution of the volunteers' shooting prizes, the St Helens Newspaper's romantic portrait of Christmas Day, the need for a second bridge over the canal at Grove Street and the two young thieves that received harsh punishments for their crimes.
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Laceys School - Cowley St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 DECEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fatal cart accident in Bold caused by a horse taking fright, the husband that threatened to knock his wife's neck out, the stabbing at a Sutton chemical works and the reflective judge, the Cowley Boys school concert in North Road, the fatal fall near to Thatto Heath station and a description of a shocking rape in which those watching thought what was taking place was not wrong.
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Whiston Workhouse St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 DECEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the clever police capture of alleged rapists that were sleeping rough in Westfield Street, the huge number of tramps who were visiting Whiston Workhouse, the heavy fines inflicted for using a trade vehicle privately, the miner who was arrested for taking time off work through rheumatism, the pauper taint of workhouse boys and the assault claimed by being drenched by a bucket of water.
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James Radley, Mayor St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 DECEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fire-damaged stock that was for sale in Church Street, the colossal Scottish diorama on show in the Volunteer Hall, a complaint over a lack of light in Pudding Bag, the fire in a Market Street toy shop, there's criticism by councillors of the efficiency of the town's fire brigade and the man that battered a policeman in Cross Street in St Helens who only received a fine of half-a-crown.
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Volunteer Hall St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 NOV - 1 DEC 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fear that a fire in a Church Street ironmongery warehouse would cause an explosion, the man who was accused of raping a Parr schoolmistress as she walked to work appears in court, the young girl who stole a loaf of bread in Earlestown, a call to prevent the build up of obnoxious sewage gas in St Helens and the town's councillors take their annual tour of the St Helens' streets.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 NOVEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the schoolteachers that were raped as they walked to school, the lengthy working hours of a Bridge Street barber's apprentice, the death of the man for whom Neills Road in Bold is named, the election campaigners accused of dirty scheming, the strange stealing by finding case and the eleven-year-old boy who was found to be operating a dangerous printing press in Liverpool Road.
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St Helens Engineer Hall

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 NOVEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the homeless man that was living in a brickfield, the effigy that was burnt in Gerards Bridge, the nineteenth century version of virtual reality on Croppers Hill, the rent dinner of the St Helens Brewery, the courageous Rainford wife who prosecuted her violent spouse and a Poor Law Inspector expresses concern over the lack of isolation of contagious cases in Whiston Workhouse.
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