150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th FEBRUARY 1871)
This week's many stories include St Helens Fire Brigade's unstate-of-the art handcart and hose, the new urinals planned for the town, the vaccination defaulters threatened with prosecution, the Prescot ghost that could walk abroad along the roofs of houses, the gentleman that rode his horse on a Newton footpath and the Eccleston woman prosecuted after being chased from her home by her husband carrying a poker.