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.
Dromgooles summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 AUGUST 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Greenbank man whose wife stabbed him in the eye, the clog kicking of constables that resulted in rare prison sentences, the Nutgrove water man that said a customer twisted his nose round at all hours, the rabbit trapping in Sherdley Park, the spelling bee cards that were for sale, the abusive train passenger carrying £3 but who refused to pay his fare and the St Helens Junction railway staff who were thumped after saving a drunk from being run over by a train.
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Duke Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 AUGUST 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the numerous fever cases at Whiston Workhouse, the clog-wearing bobby wearing a dirty navvy's suit on the lookout for Sunday morning drinkers in Duke Street, the Sutton man that lost a leg at Rhyl when attempting to leap onto a train, the physician called Dr Coffin, the sham travellers at the Victoria in Thatto Heath and the curious case of rabbit stealing in New Street in Sutton.
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Daglish Foundry, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 AUGUST 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the police constable that was seized by his moustache in Church Street, the iron spittoon which was used as a weapon in a Bridge Street beerhouse, a reluctant husband finally ties the knot, the Sutton wife-beater who when drunk rolled and tumbled about the house and the foundry apprentice in St Helens who was warned that he would serve a fortnight in prison if he failed to go to work.
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Dentist summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 AUGUST 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the clown cricketers at Dentons Green in St Helens, the Parr assault that began with a dispute over a clothes-line, the dentist that was seeking to set up a surgery in a Church Street shop, the boys who were illegally bathing in the Sutton Glass Works reservoir, the new safety fuse firm at St Helens Junction and the landlady of the Prince of Wales pub summons one of her customers to court.
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Carr Mill Dam summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 JULY - 2 AUGUST 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the grand swimming gala held in St Helens, Sutton Cricket Club hold their annual athletics sports day, the porter badly injured at St Helens railway station while preparing a train, the Peasley Cross man knocked down by an engine, the drowning at Carr Mill Dam, the St Helens YMCA Rambling Club visit Billinge Hill and the miner from Broad Oak who was charged with killing his wife.
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Kurtz Alkali Works summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 JULY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the uninsured fire at Rainhill that destroyed an oil and tar works just hours before it was due to be sold, the violent customer in a Marshalls Cross beerhouse who attacked a bobby, a call for the Whiston Workhouse Band to perform in Sherdley Park, the slag attack in Pocket Nook, the St Helens baker who attacked his wife and the two young men who were separately drowned in one afternoon.
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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 nosh up at the Eagle and Child Inn, St Helens Police's annual inspection, the St Helens Athletic Sports takes place in Dentons Green, the illegal encroachment on 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 in St Helens when a drunk fell over in North Road.
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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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