150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th DECEMBER 1871)
This week's stories include the contagious diseases raging in St Helens, the Pocket Nook rail crash that killed a Sutton stoker, the 3-hour curling match that took place on the ice at Rainhill, the cosy pay rises for a Newton-le-Willows workforce, more on the Whiston water well problem and the curious controversy over school boards designed to educate the 2 million children in England with no access to education.