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.
Eagle and Child Rainford summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 JULY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include Rainford Cow Club's annual nosh up at the Eagle and Child Inn, how St Helens Police's annual inspection left only three officers to patrol the town, the St Helens Athletic Sports takes place in Dentons Green, the illegal encroachment on public Thatto Heath land, the notorious Feigh family return to court, the miners of St Helens strike over a reduction in their wages and the chain of events that began when a drunken man simply fell over in North Road in St Helens.
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Raven Inn stage coach summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 JULY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens woman who travelled to Liverpool to rob children, the ban on ratepayers attending Council meetings in the new St Helens Town Hall, the thief's attack on a crippled man in Liverpool Street, the controversial banquet for the St Helens night soil men and a son of Queen Victoria rides into St Helens at the head of a 60-strong cavalry detachment to stay overnight at the Raven.
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Whiston workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JUNE - 5 JULY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the violent highway hat robbery in Bold, the boys in the popular Whiston Workhouse Band are banned from playing at outside events, the huge fire at a chemical works in Gerards Bridge, the barmaid that got her boss in trouble for serving a drunken man, the larking about in Waterloo Street that led to a knife attack and the 1,000 working class folk that went on a train for a day trip to Rhyl.
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Newton Races summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JUNE 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the church counter-attractions to Race Friday at Newton Races, the call for a choral society to be created in St Helens, the house robberies that took place in Parr, the brutal kicking attack near the Raven Hotel, the two men that both claimed the other had attacked them in Grove Street and the row in a Parr pub that was caused by a wife wanting her boozing husband to come home.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 JUNE 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Rainford wife beating case, the three pit sinkers that drowned in Ashton-in-Makerfield, the attempted rape of a 7-year-old girl in St Thomas Street, there's criticism of the arrangements for the opening of the new Town Hall, the man who repeatedly fired a gun at Brown Edge and the wife beating in the street that so outraged neighbours that they wanted to lynch the husband.
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Whiston Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 JUNE 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the measures to deter vagrants from staying at Whiston Workhouse, the rebuttal of a claim that the children of St Helens looked sallow and pale, the Workhouse Band are allowed to keep their shilling gifts, a new purveyor of false teeth comes to the town, the St Helens Bicycle Club's captaincy race and the harsh punishment for accepting too much change after buying a pint in a Parr pub.
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Littlers Field Dentons Green, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 JUNE 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the huge procession celebrating the opening of the new St Helens Town Hall, the sports held by the Catholic Association for the Suppression of Drunkenness, the brainless telescope stealing on Cowley Hill, the violence in a Pocket Nook beerhouse caused by the playing of dominoes and why the Ragged School pupils had to walk at the rear of the procession at the opening of the Town Hall.
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Wheatsheaf Inn, Rainford, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 MAY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the ailing woman who being given beer and turps landed the landlord of the Crooked Billet beerhouse in court, the furious riding of a horse and cart that occurred in Rainford, the unknown body that was found in the canal, the woman who was beaten by her husband for not getting him beer and the violent man at St Helens railway station who needed to be carried to the police station.
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Fire brigade, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 MAY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the stack fire on a farm in Parr owned by Haydock Colliery, the one-sided story of a Park Road punch up, the Gerards Bridge barber who deserted his wife who had to seek relief from the Prescot Union, the drunks that were causing trouble in a Church Street café, the beggar in Liverpool Road who foolishly boasted of only receiving 14 days and there's another low scoring cricket match.
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Kurtz alkali works, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 MAY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the health dangers of the dozen huge chemical waste heaps in St Helens, the Corporation water supply that had sand mixed in it, the workhouse children that received no exercise and developed skin complaints, there's criticism of dogs being taken out on chains and a complaint over the high ticket prices for the banquet that will take place after the opening of the new St Helens Town Hall.
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Ship Inn St Helens swing bridge summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 MAY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the arrangements for the opening of the new St Helens Town Hall, the spelling bee that was held in Ormskirk Street, the death down Pilkington's St Helens Colliery after a coal collapse, the man who attempted to saw another man's head off returns to court to face another saw-related charge and two men deny allegations made against them following the deadly horse and trap accident.
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