150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th MARCH 1872)
This week's stories include a savage clogs assault in Park Road, the Rainhill father who a magistrate called wicked, the window-breaking lodger of Parr, the 4-year-old girl performing at the Theatre Royal, the two neighbours that lived in a state of chronic war, the police swoop on a Water Street temperance hotel and the Rainford tobacco pipemakers strike comes to an end – but it’s a hollow victory for the men.