150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st OCT. - 6th NOV. 1872)
This week's stories include the novelty of voting in secret elections in St Helens, the casual attitude to explosive gas down a coal mine, the fireworks lit in a Newton court, tenders for the building of the new St Helens town hall are received, the most impudent robbery of jewellery takes place at Knowsley Hall, the assault on a policeman's whiskers in Market Street and the exceedingly long lives in Greenbank.