St Helens History This Week

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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.
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 annual St Helens Catholic Charity Ball is held in the Volunteer Hall, 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 bashed 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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James Radley, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 MARCH 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the ploughing competition held in Rainford, the anger of St Helens market stallholders with unlicensed auctioneers, the donation of a mayoral chain of office to the town of St Helens, the fowl deed that took place in Blackbrook at the Ship Inn, the demise of the Rainhill Light Horse, St Helens Cricket Club hire a professional player and the chemical worker too drunk to work.
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Home washer summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 FEB - 2 MARCH 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the suspicious death of a baby, the mother of a future St Helens MP attacks the man she blamed for her husband's death, the foolish fare dodging at St Helens Station, the six boys in trouble for playing kinny cat in Rainford, the barefaced poaching of a hare in Bold, the gory description of a man's death at Knowsley and the two squabbling women who continued their row at court.
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Kirkdale Gaol summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 FEBRRUARY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Valentine's Day mania that took place in St Helens, shocking statistics demonstrate a high level of infant mortality in the town, the brainless Liverpool Street lodging house theft of a pair of boots and a shawl, the brutal husband from Gerards Bridge who threatened to Corrigan his wife and the claim of cruelty to an exhausted bull that was being driven through the streets of St Helens.
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Dromgooles summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 FEBRRUARY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Valentine cards available to buy in Hardshaw Street, the congested nature of market days in St Helens in which Exchange Street was blocked off, the amazing prison sentence given to a Bridge Street burglar, the epileptic who had a fit in the courtroom, the Gerard Arms landlord at Moss Bank comes clean and the man who deserted his family for Scotland is brought to book.
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St Helens Volunteer Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 FEBRRUARY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the blackface troupe performing at the Volunteer Hall, two coal mining tragedies take place at Havannah and Gillars Green collieries, there is a harsh penalty for an unsuccessful attempt at stealing from an East Street till, even harsher penalties are imposed for stealing two shawls from the family home and the Grand Gala that was coming to Prescot featuring a galaxy of talented men.
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Liverpool Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 JAN - 2 FEB 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the stealing of finny haddys in Liverpool Street, the violent purring attack that took place in Tontine Street, the trouble at Rainford's Star Inn between a landlord and a policeman, the St Helens Newspaper denounces the brutality that was regularly taking place in the town and the prosecutions for taking a day off work at Sutton Heath Colliery despite the defendants having been sick.
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Whiston Workhouse plaque summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 JANUARY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the reckoning Monday row in Thatto Heath that led to a violent assault, the St Helens seedsman's stolen watch, the horseplay at the Holt in Rainhill that had potentially serious consequences for the main offender, the railway shunter's coal stealing, the perils of going to work on the railway line in the dark at 4am and the St Helens Chemical Company is charged with fouling the Atlas Street sewer.
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