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.
Citadel, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 DECEMBER 1873

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens Newspaper's musings on the meaning of Christmas, the joy of Christmas Day in Whiston Workhouse, the Canal Street crowd that tried to stop policemen from making an arrest, the Peasley Cross grocer brought down to earth in a spirit of wantonness, the poaching on the Bold Hall estate, the fire at the old Town Hall, the Haydock miners' strike over how many hundredweight comprise a ton and more details of the new St Helens News and Reading Room.
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Laceys Cowley School, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 DECEMBER 1873

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the gorgeous Christmas pantomime at the Theatre Royal in St Helens, a Haydock man is suspected of murdering his wife, the banquet that was held at the Fleece Hotel for the principal inhabitants of St Helens, the scarlet fever outbreak at Whiston Workhouse, the annual Cowley School reunion, the abused Newton apprentice wheelwright and the pub collections in St Helens for a boys' refuge.
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St Bartholomews Church Rainhill, summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 DECEMBER 1873

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the poker bashing case in Bold Street in Greenbank, Rainhill village goes en fete as Mary Stapleton-Bretherton returns from her European travels, the cow that took on a St Helens train and lost, the minstrel show that took place at the Volunteer Hall, the Christmas adverts in the Newspaper and the new Catholic temperance society that allowed those who signed the pledge to drink beer.
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Rookery Station, Rainford, summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 DECEMBER 1873

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the first training session of the new Saints football club, the St Helens Newspaper claims persecution over its forthcoming libel case, the men-only Newsroom for newspaper readers, the railway row in Rainford over an open window, there's a sequel to the violent assault on the St Helens Junction stationmaster and the curious case of the stolen drawers from a Liverpool Road draper's shop.
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St Helens market summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27 NOV - 3 DEC 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the constable that spotted a fugitive tailor on a train at Newton, the three Feigh brothers are accused again of stealing, a Rainford hare poaching case, the carters' squabble that led to a court case, the new ratepayers association for Eccleston and the thief in St Helens Market that was sent to prison for stealing a tunic worth just a tanner despite claiming to have been in delicate health.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20- 26 NOVEMBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Bridge Street window smashing through a dispute over a tanner change, the St Helens Medical Officer of Health releases some shocking child mortality stats, the St Helens Newspaper is sued for libel, the Irish diorama in the Volunteer Hall, the councillors' annual inspection of St Helens roads and the deaths of two men employed by two chemical works that were allowed to drink at work.
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Wellington Hotel, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13 - 19 NOVEMBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the trowel stealing amongst the labourers that were building the new town hall, the elderly victim of an assault that was branded a lunatic, the pretty ornamental gas lamp at the bottom of Bridge Street, the bigotry of the pit brow lasses at Ravenhead Colliery, more on the claim of corruption at the recent council election and the less than free and easy life of a St Helens carter.
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St Helens Town Hall foundation stone summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6 - 12 NOVEMBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the laying of the new Town Hall's foundation stone, an outbreak of smallpox in St Helens, the exiled German Fathers perform at Prescot Catholic Church, a small boy is sent to prison for a month, Greenall's rent dinner takes place, the little boy from Mill Street that was frightfully scalded by boiling water and the secret ballot that was causing confusion in the St Helens council elections.
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Boundary Road St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30 OCT - 5 NOV 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fight between two brothers that led to a charge of manslaughter, the female Amazons from Atlantis who performed at the Volunteer Hall, the cruelty to a Boundary Road goat, there's criticism of the apathy of voters at local elections, the man that brutally beat up his mother-in-law and an attack on those with big ideas that failed to save the pioneering Mechanics Institute.
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St Helens Cottage Hospital summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23 - 29 OCTOBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the old woman's drowning in the canal, the indifferent interest in supporting St Helens Cottage Hospital, the train ticket for a dog that caused a row at St Helens station, the Park Road squabble that led to a dust up in court, a theft from the Running Horses, the pony boy at Greengate Colliery who kicked his horse and the Water Street brothel keeper who turned to poaching in Bold.
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Whiston workhouse women summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16 - 22 OCTOBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the ragged Bold youth imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, a violent assault on St Helens Junction's stationmaster, Lowe House's circulation library, a goods train derails near St Helens Station, the improved sanitary system in St Helens to reduce disease, the high rates of infant mortality in St Helens and the Rainford policeman that a solicitor accused of an abominable act.
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