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.
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 that was being 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 key witness in a Parr wounding who was paid not to appear, 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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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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