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.
Newton Races summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 MAY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the revenge of the 14-year-old street rough that liked to assault girls, some shocking death statistics for 1874 are released, the strange reason a police officer had for five months been stationed within St Helens Cemetery, the feckless Feigh family are reunited in prison, preparations are made for the forthcoming Newton Races, the night soil collections and in a highly critical editorial the St Helens Newspaper argues that the town is going backwards.
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St Helens fire brigade summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 MAY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the cases of smallpox that had broken out in Whiston Workhouse killing one child, the celebrations of Whit Monday that took place in St Helens, the Grand Gala that was held at Prescot, the boy sneak thief returns to court and how firemen were accused of not knowing what they were doing when they caused water damage while dealing with a small fire in a Church Street draper's.
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Rosbothams School summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 MAY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Greenbank riot after the police put a stop to a prize fight, the boys that were prosecuted for running a foot race in Rainford, the curious procession by a Lowton society for the protection of women, the young man who got his girlfriend pregnant but denied responsibility in court and the public meeting at the Golden Lion in Rainford to extend the provision of schools in the village.
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Sutton Oak Station summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 APRIL - 4 MAY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the pauper's complaint over the quality of the scouse that was being served in Whiston Workhouse, the Peasley Cross saw man is brought to book, the stolen shawl that was seen being worn in Church Street, the May Day horse and cart procession takes place, the man killed while walking on the railway line to Sutton Oak station and the stolen boots that were concealed under a thief’s shawl.
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Muncaster Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 21 - 27 APRIL 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the illegal cockfighting that took place on Aintree Racecourse, the poetic hairdresser of Market Street promotes his services, the location for the borough's new Fever Hospital is agreed, there's a tragic accident in Rainford involving a heavy iron roller and the Superintendent of the St Helens Police complains to magistrates that in Parr the people there attacked the police right and left.
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Kirkdale gaol summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 APRIL 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the bizarre attempt to saw a man's head off, the cheeky Liverpool Road theft of a builder's hod, the meeting of a temperance society in the Volunteer Hall, some very harsh sentences for stealing are imposed in the Kirkdale Quarter Sessions, the wretched man who was launched into eternity and the rearing supper held at the Fleece to celebrate the new Town Hall's roof being installed.
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Havannah Colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 7 - 13 APRIL 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the distribution of the Windle Dole, the fire that took place at the rear of St Helens Post Office, the blind Minstrels that were performing in the Volunteer Hall, a call for the disreputable St Helens Fair to end, two miners lose their lives in a shocking accident that took place at Havannah Colliery in Parr and the troupe of uncharcoaled minstrels that were suspected of theft in the Bulls Head.
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Volunteer Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 31 MARCH - 6 APRIL 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the outrage on a woman in Ashton, the shocking living conditions in the poorer parts of St Helens are condemned by the St Helens Newspaper, the Bold Hall gamekeeper's shotgun diplomacy, the brainless thefts that were made from a pair of Church Street ironmongers and the powerful looking Sutton man who hit his wife on the head because he said she would not cut him some bread.
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St Helens Newspaper, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 MARCH 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the opening for the season of the Victoria Pleasure Gardens in Thatto Heath, the Greenbank corner boys who liked to annoy and assault young women, the drunken prisoner who claimed he was punched in the police station, the St Helens volunteer soldiers hold their annual review in the rain and the fare dodging at Rainford Junction that probably led to two young men being sent to prison.
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Liverpool Road, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 MARCH 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the police chase in Liverpool Road to capture a violent man, the proposed widening of Corporation Street by 6 feet, the great crowd watching a punch up in the backyard of the Volunteer Inn in Bridge Street, the St Helens Newspaper criticises the organisers of a petition of lacking manliness and the elderly woman who was supposedly given a lenient prison sentence for stealing clothes.
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Prescot Reporter, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 MARCH 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the twelve-year-old Parr girl's claim of rape against a well known Corporation official, the dispute over a policeman's lamp in Rainford, the harsh penalty for stealing a coat from St Helens market, criticism of Sunday schools for giving tea parties to their children, Fossett's Circus comes to Prescot and the Parr grocer who wanted his debt paying off but received a beating instead.
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