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.
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 in the recent council election, the strange stealing by finding case, the working men's entertainment in Rainhill 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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St Helens fire brigade summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 NOVEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a claim that St Helens had become notorious for its wickedness, the end of the miners' strike, the pioneering child welfare reformer Father Nugent comes to the Volunteer Hall, the Prescot fire that was reported to have defied all efforts at extinction, the Greenbank purring of a woman and the young man that fired a pistol at a woman in Baxters Lane and claimed it was just a lark.
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Feathers Inn summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 OCT - 3 NOV 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens man that stabbed his wife for protesting about him wasting money on drink, the huge fire at the Sutton Sheeting Works at St Helens Junction, the miners riot at Haydock in protect at strike-breaking knobsticks, two workers constructing the new Town Hall are injured and Dromgoole's Newspaper goes hi-tech through using a gas boiler to power their presses to replace steam.
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Union Plate Glassworks St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 21 - 27 OCTOBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the purring attack on a man in Duke Street, the fatal accident at a Pocket Nook glassworks, Foottit's Circus comes to St Helens and Prescot, the highly ignorant Parr woman who did not know where she lived and who fought with a man, the hare killing in Rainford, an update on the miners strike and the thirsty carter who paid a high price for parking his horse and cart outside the Eccleston Arms.
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Liverpool Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 OCTOBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the balloon flight in Prescot that was said to be carrying a living freight, the revival of an old Catholic chapel at Portico that had been nearly deserted, the cheeky copper theft from the Ring O' Bells in Westfield Street, the stone-throwing at St Helens police in Greenbank while they were making an arrest and the woman who was badly beaten who was claimed to have been the real villain of the piece.
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James Radley, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 7 - 13 OCTOBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the offer to provide a chain of office for St Helens' mayors to wear, a serious accident occurs on the railway at Ravenhead, the apathy from the people of St Helens towards the miners' strike, the defamation against a wife in Rainford's Eagle and Child, the market stallholder accusing of crying his goods and the heavy sentence imposed for breaking into a house in Parr and stealing clothes.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 SEPT - 6 OCT 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the man called Crook who punched a policeman on the nose in Church Street, why the miners' of St Helens and Haydock had gone on strike, the claim that patients that were dying were being dumped on Whiston Workhouse, the road rage incident that took place in Naylor Street, the expanding St Helens Cottage Hospital and the Beetle brothers are in trouble for beating up a woman in Parr.
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Whiston Workhouse plaque summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 SEPTEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include Rainford's polluted water supply that came from the Randle Brook or from wells, the pubs that had their licences taken away, the movement calling for compulsory education for St Helens' children, the many men that died after suffering an accident, the riot in Greenbank after the police had made an arrest and the giant dying of fever that visited pubs on his way to the workhouse.
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Kurtz summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 SEPTEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the naked baby from Bold Street that was left alone on wet straw, the introduction of exchange and mart in newspapers, the dangers of accidentally walking into heaps of nightsoil, the high mounds of chemical waste in Langtree Street, the woman who bashed a grocer with a broom and two St Helens firms deny allowing acid to flow into the public sewers despite evidence to the contrary.
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Market summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 SEPTEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the formation of a fife and drum band at Whiston Workhouse, the blackguard market traders in St Helens that were passing blasphemous remarks, the Water Street fight that became a pointless and expensive court case, the liquidation of the mismanaged Sutton Alkali Co-operative Society and a chemical factory in Pocket Nook denies polluting sewers in St Helens with noxious matter.
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