150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th MAY 1871)
This week's stories include an update on the men who were accused of ravishing two middle-aged women in Parr, solicitor Thomas Swift causes more mayhem in court, Greenall's sumptuous rent day dinner for their landlords at the Fleece in Church Street, the comic music hall singer called The Great Vance performs in Newton-le-Willows and the curious kissing cult of Mrs Girling who wanted to rule the world!