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.
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, the penny reading at St Joseph's School in Parr, the Gerards Bridge stairs fall 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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St Helens horse parade summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 APRIL - 3 MAY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens May Day horse parade, the attempted rape of a three-year-old girl in Gerards Bridge, the half-day closing movement in St Helens, the arrangements for the opening of the new Town Hall, the opportunistic thief in the marketplace, the resignation of the mayor and the trap tragedy that was caused by a horse that bolted at a furious rate while it was approaching Church Street.
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Kirkdale Prison summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 APRIL 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the reopening of the St Helens Public Baths after being cleaned, coloured and repainted, the death at Rainhill Railway Station after a passenger chose to cross the line, the literacy levels at the Kirkdale Quarter Sessions, the man who stole tame rabbits, the historic Roman Catholic Chapel at Portico and the sacking of the little girl nurses who were working at the St Helens Cottage Hospital.
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Market St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 APRIL 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the man who claimed the police had beaten him black and blue, the landlord of the Lamb Hotel in College Street is charged with serving out of hours, the Parr Stocks boy that was slapped for stealing from a pigeon house, the female fish seller accused of using disgusting language to the market inspector and the woman who was told her husband could legally say whatever he liked to her.
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Rainford National School, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 APRIL 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This many stories include the sad case of the child that died of rabies after being bitten by a mad dog in Hardshaw Street, the landlord of the Lorne Hotel calls again for more policemen in St Helens, the plans to celebrate the opening of the new Town Hall, the start of summer band concerts in St Helens and the councillors that laughed at their own medical officer of health for suggesting that infectious diseases broke out in cycles.
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Frederic Maccabe summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 MARCH - 5 APRIL 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the attempted rape of a child in Greenbank, the hard times ahead for paupers living in the community, the world-famous vocal illusionist that performed in St Helens, a man called Pork John is charged with breaking into a Parr Street butcher's, the fire in Shaw Street when the water supply was turned off and the well-off St Helens auctioneer that travelled on a train without a ticket.
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Ashtons Green Colliery St Helens

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the visit to St Helens by the American temperance champion Mother Stewart, the dirty state of Rainford Brook, there's another death at Ashton's Green Colliery, the saga of the stolen spade at Greenalls, why as the result of an action for slander a St Helens publican was officially not a chump and the man whose rather fanciful excuse for not possessing a train ticket turned out to be true.
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Citadel St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the popularity of playing the dangerous game of guinea cat in St Helens, the theft of an artiste's belongings from the Theatre Royal, the men that were prosecuted for not going to work, the husband who was described as an idle and dissolute fellow that lived off his wife and the Gerard's Bridge daughter who received a harsh prison sentence after stealing some of her mother's clothes.
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Littlers Field, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the pigeon shooting on Croppers Hill, the feckless Feigh family are back in trouble, the Dentons Green Lane drowning of an unknown man, the spelling bee in Waterloo Street, the clog kicking of constables in Parr, the stealing from the till of the Swan Inn, the foiled burglary attempt on the Peel Arms and a warning against the spreading of mistaken notions of the causes of epidemics.
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Liverpool Road, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many 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 and the cruel miner taken to court for blinding a pit pony.
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