150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th DECEMBER 1870)
This week's many stories include the horse rug that was allegedly stolen in Moss Bank by a Peasley Cross grocer, the strange Parr Street drunkenness dispute between a solicitor and the police, the riderless horse in Eccleston, the recidivist offender stupidly drunk in Tontine Street, a famous Irish poet gives a series of readings at St Helens Town Hall and the drunken man who would turn himself in at the police station.