St Helens History This Week

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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.
Rainhill Asylum summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Rainhill Asylum attendant called the greatest rascal on the face of the earth who was accused of assaulting a patient, the pipe-smoking Parr woman who was attacked in her home, the scarcity of magistrates in St Helens leads to more inconvenience for those that were attending court, the Worcester source that was manufactured in Rainford and the Sutton Alkali Works' day trip to Blackpool.
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Beechams magic cure summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4 - 10 SEPTEMBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Rainford girl who accused two men of slander by claiming she had been sleeping with a man in the woods, the stinking fish that was cried for sale in Greenbank, an inspection of the lunatic paupers from Ormskirk in Rainhill Asylum, the strange theft in a bedroom of the Black Bull in Church Street and there's a sequel to the disgusting savagery case in which a man's ear was bitten off.
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Baldwin Street St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28 AUGUST - 3 SEPT 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the exhausted nag made to haul 3 tons of sand up Croppers Hill, the failure of the new Licensing Act in St Helens, the Parr defamation case in which a bowl of vinegar was cast in a woman's face, the 13-year-old boy that was whipped and imprisoned for theft, the different court treatment for two different boot thieves and the Liverpool Road window smasher that had a heavy price to pay.
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Bird in the Hand St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21 - 27 AUGUST 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the town's first public illuminated clock on the parish church tower, the two drunks that separately drowned in St Helens Canal, the train company sued after a passenger suffered serious injuries in an accident at Rainford, Sangers Circus presents a Monstre Fete opposite the Bird I’th Hand and the unusual reason that was given why convictions for drunkenness in St Helens had risen by a third.
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Mansion House St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14 - 20 AUGUST 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the death of the St Helens Town Crier, the stupid prank at a waxworks exhibition in Rainford that damaged a woman's eyesight, the man accused of an attempted rape in Pocket Nook, the twelve-year-old boys that were illegally working 70 hours a week, the rival stingy nettle beer sellers in St Helens and the woman using abusive and blasphemous language to a child in Robins Lane.
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Wheatsheaf Rainford summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7 - 13 AUGUST 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the violent outrage near the Wheatsheaf Inn at Rainford, the curious Parr row between an octogenarian and a blind woman, the first annual meeting of St Helens Cottage Hospital takes place, a shocking accident at Wigan railway station involving many deaths, the fight inside Gamble's chemical works in Gerards Bridge and the Peasley Cross girl's harsh sentence after stealing a pair of clogs.
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Bridge Street St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31 JULY - 6 AUGUST 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Bold engine driver who gave his 79-year-old mother-in-law two black eyes, a disputed claim that a dog in Sutton had been fed poisoned meat, the no-show magistrates that were causing chaos in court, the trouble inside the Old House At Home in Bridge Street, the game of dominoes in a Parr pub that led to a fight and the battle over a pigeon between a tall man and a little fellow.
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Pilkingtons St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24 - 30 JULY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fear of cholera coming to St Helens, the St Helens Newspaper warns of the dangers of appointing a dishonest Town Clerk, the violent storm that struck St Helens and flooded Duke Street and Bridge Street, the rotten pears that were sold in the market and the boy who was sent to prison for committing a penny's worth of damage to a sand-washing machine at Pilkington's glassworks.
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Volunteer Hall, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17 - 23 JULY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the severe sentence that was imposed on an Oldfield Street burglar, the mixed-sex fight that took place in St Helens, the Whiston coalmine that was turned into an inferno, the coat-tails stockings theft from a market stall, a review of the extraordinary panorama exhibition in the Volunteer Hall and the rain tub row in Rainford that led to a serious assault being committed on a woman.
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Volunteer Hall, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10 - 16 JULY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the boy dress thieves in St Helens Market, the Royal panorama that was exhibited in the Volunteer Hall, the contract to build the new Town Hall is awarded again, the thieving tramp in Eccleston that called a coachbuilder a liar, the young boys that stole a one-pound weight from a grocer's shop and the St Helens Newspaper accuses town councillors of being incompetent and reckless.
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Duke Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3 - 9 JULY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the death of the boy taking breakfast to his father at the Hardshaw Brook Chemical Works, the annual gathering of miners of St Helens and Haydock, another fire strikes St Helens Town Hall, the eccentric night soil dumper of Rainford, there's two similar court cases of wife beating, the two sons that beat up their father in Westfield Street and the stone and egg throwing that took place in Parr.
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