150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th JULY - 1st AUG. 1871)
This week's stories include the Peasley Cross firm that silvered the largest mirror in Lancashire, a Sutton Glassworks outing to the Lakes ends in tragedy, the Cowley Hill boys charged with pigeon stealing, a fascinating account of a train journey in the real Wild West, the dead cousins left down a Haydock coal mine and the bishop who criticised the many Roman Catholics in prison and drunken overlaying of babies.