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.
Liverpool Road, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the plans to build a new parish church in Rainford move up a gear, the 18-year-old girl's tragic suicide in St Helens Canal after a minor tiff with her boyfriend, the plans to install stained glass windows in the new Town Hall, the Liverpool Road lodging house shawl theft, the duck stealing in Parr, the poker bashing in Gerards Bridge, the charwoman given 6 months for striking another woman in the face with a glass bottle and the cruel miner that blinded a pit pony.
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Dromgooles, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 FEBRUARY - 1 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the mad dog that was at large in St Helens town centre biting persons and other dogs, the playing of guinea cat by workmen at Pilkingtons, the welcome rejection of a chemical company's appeal against polluting a Pocket Nook sewer, the Tea Party and Concert held in Rainford, AJ Young's new coaching and postal service in Bickerstaffe Street and the curious case of the stolen spade.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 FEBRUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens sewers that were found to be acidic through chemical firm's discharges, the man called Garbage that gave the police a severe kicking after being arrested in Ormskirk Street, Rainhill ratepayers battle against a proposed new sewage farm, the cruel farm labourer that hit a horse with a spade and the man that received a severe prison sentence for stealing some stockings from a pub.
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Rainford old parish church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 FEBRUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the plans to build a new parish church in Rainford, the builder injured in an accident in Park Road who received a huge pay-off, the Smithy Brow father forced to pay maintenance for his illegitimate child, the dangerous Jack Tar in the Globe, the thief that stole from a drinker in a Bridge Street pub and the Marshall Cross man rewarded in court for helping a policeman that was being attacked.
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Dromgooles, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 FEBRUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the annual Rainford ploughing match that was held in Crank, the fire that took place at the Friends Meeting House, the overlaid baby in Waterloo Street, the Valentine cards that were on sale in St Helens, the unlicensed hawker who asked a policeman if he wanted to buy some earrings and the black singers from Nashville who were singing slave hymns in the Volunteer Hall in St Helens.
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County Court, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 JAN - 1 FEB 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the official opening of the new St Helens police station and courthouse, the Bold farmer who in St Helens County Court refused to pay a medical bill, Whiston Workhouse's Christmas Tree celebration that featured the St Helens Amateur Christy Minstrels, the theft of a till from the Victoria Vaults in Sutton and the woman who was dubbed a virago that attacked the landlady of a pub in Smithy Brow.
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Volunteer Hall, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 JANUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the notorious Rainford poacher who unsuccessfully begged a game watcher not to report him, the excitement over the new Rainhill sewage farm to prevent contagious disease, the annual dinner of the 47th Local Rife Volunteers takes place in the Volunteer Hall, the row over water in Pocket Nook, the new dress warehouse in Hardshaw Street and there's another street death.
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Sefton Arms, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 JANUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a damning indictment of the St Helens Railway Station after the death of a man, the military ball that was held in the Volunteer Hall, the penny reading that was held in Parr, the ice skater that drowned in Sutton after the ice broke up, there's more on St Helens Corporation's purchase of the gasworks and the woman that dropped dead outside the Sefton Arms while wheeling her barrow.
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Whiston Infirmary, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 JANUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the attempt to stop Ex Terra Lucem becoming the town's first motto, there's concern over acids from chemical waste heaps that were flowing into brooks, the drowning in a Cowley Hill clay hole, the two nurses at Whiston Workhouse receive a pay rise, the Water Street fight with a policeman and the death at St Helens Station through crossing the lines rather than using a railway bridge.
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Baldwin Street workhouse, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 DEC 1875 - 4 JAN 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Dark Lane shop in Parr that was prosecuted for having dodgy weights, the two court cases concerning the Druids Arms beerhouse in Sandfield Crescent, the aged poor Christmas hand-outs that took place in Lea Green, the violent assault on a mother-in-law in the former Baldwin Street workhouse and the owner of a cart who was prosecuted for only having his name chalked upon it.
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St Helens Citadel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 DECEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Beauty and the Beast at the Theatre Royal, criticism of the town's new motto, the harsh punishment for the theft of a pinafore, the wicked stepmother who battered two small boys, the fowl deed at Rainhill Asylum, the wife beater who signed the pledge, the man who kicked the wife of a beerhouse keeper in Pocket Nook and the seller of pianofortes and harmoniums on the three year system.
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