St Helens History This Week

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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.
Wanless illustration summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th SEPTEMBER 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 12-year-old boy who cheated a Rainford widow out of her compensation payments, the shenanigans in a Warrington Road beerhouse that prevented the transfer of its licence, the drunken brute who was staying in Sutton Oak who shot his wife dead on a train and then killed himself and the shocking story of the man at Aspull, near Wigan, who instructed his bulldog to attack his wife.
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St Helens Foundry summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th SEPTEMBER 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the sudden death of a former Greenall brewery boss at Crank railway station, the boys accused of the Newton works dinner theft, delays to the opening of the new St Helens to Huyton railway line, there is concern over rabies outbreaks in the district, the Rainford and Bickerstaffe Floral, Horticultural & Agricultural Show and the St Helens apprentices that found themselves in trouble with their boss.
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Donkeys summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th SEPTEMBER 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the land that was bought to build a new St Helens Town Hall, the Ashton-in-Makerfield gold watch trick, the uninteresting county court cases, a shocking mining explosion takes place, the St Helens butchers in court, the Bridge Street plumber who came to a sticky end in his own ashpit, the ragged little boys who wanted to go to school and the disorderly donkeys on New Brighton beach.
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Citadel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th AUG. - 5th SEPT. 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a three-year-old child's miraculous escape after being run over by a Doulton pottery cart, the long history of bowling in St Helens, the illegal playing of pitch and toss in Haydock, the turnip thieving in Ashton-in-Makerfield, a Sunday school field day in St Helens, the turns performing at the Theatre Royal in Milk Streets and how there was a pub in St Helens for every 120 adults.
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Kirkland Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th AUGUST 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the burglary of a tailor's shop in Kirkland Street, a swimming tragedy in Sutton Glassworks' reservoir despite a valiant attempt at rescue by a policeman, the man accused of exposing himself to a married woman, the fighting men of Haydock, Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows, the agitation for more pay in the coal mines and why long-winded lovers' letters could now be mailed more cheaply.
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Rainford Colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd AUGUST 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the mild penalty imposed on two women after committing a savage clogs assault, the head of Prescot police claims that on Sundays youths were turning the streets of his town into a pandemonium, a card sharper is caught at Newton Fair, the man who beat the Rainford Colliery Co. at its own game and the woman in the County Court whose debts were wiped out after getting married.
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St Helens County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th AUGUST 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the curious drowning of a child in a Lea Green pit, a harsh prison sentence is imposed on the thieving Sutton postie, a Rainford man's murderous assault on a friend with a poker, the workhouse cook's dodgy meals are under scrutiny, an accusation of illegal gambling is made against a police officer in Smithy Brow and the outspoken lawyer Thomas Swift finally has his wings clipped.
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St Ann's Church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th AUGUST 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Tontine Street wife stabber who behaved like a baby in court, the four men accused of raping two Parr sisters are handed long sentences in prison, the touchy mayor of St Helens sues once again for libel, the first ever official August Bank Holiday is held, a death takes place in the engine department of Sutton Glassworks and St Anne's Roman Catholic church in Sutton has a special visitor.
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Raglan Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th JULY - 1st AUG. 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
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.
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Holy Cross Church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th JULY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the shocking insanitary state of Rainford, the high price of getting a divorce, the incorrigible character Catherine Dunn returns to court, a claim that the new Grace's Square in Sutton was being illegally built, the Moss Bank man in a precarious state, the females fighting in Parr, the insulting lads outside the Nag's Head and the heavy fines for Rainford miners who had quit their jobs.
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Waterdale House summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th JULY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the opening of the new St Helens Railway Station, a serious horse attack at the Stork Inn in Billinge, the second St Helens Cricket Club's athletics festival in Dentons Green, two accidents with horse-drawn vehicles occur in St Helens, the controversial compulsory smallpox vaccination and the man accused of threatening a neighbour who claimed he was only talking to his tobacco.
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