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.
Rainford National School, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 APRIL 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This many stories include the sad case of the child that died of rabies after being bitten by a mad dog in Hardshaw Street, the landlord of the Lorne Hotel calls again for more policemen in St Helens, the plans to celebrate the opening of the new Town Hall, the start of summer band concerts in St Helens and the councillors that laughed at their own medical officer of health for suggesting that infectious diseases broke out in cycles.
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Frederic Maccabe summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 MARCH - 5 APRIL 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the attempted rape of a child in Greenbank, the hard times ahead for paupers living in the community, the world-famous vocal illusionist that performed in St Helens, a man called Pork John is charged with breaking into a Parr Street butcher's, the fire in Shaw Street when the water supply was turned off and the well-off St Helens auctioneer that travelled on a train without a ticket.
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Ashtons Green Colliery St Helens

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the visit to St Helens by the American temperance champion Mother Stewart, the dirty state of Rainford Brook, there's another death at Ashton's Green Colliery, the saga of the stolen spade at Greenalls, why as the result of an action for slander a St Helens publican was officially not a chump and the man whose rather fanciful excuse for not possessing a train ticket turned out to be true.
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Citadel St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the popularity of playing the dangerous game of guinea cat in St Helens, the theft of an artiste's belongings from the Theatre Royal, the men that were prosecuted for not going to work, the husband who was described as an idle and dissolute fellow that lived off his wife and the Gerard's Bridge daughter who received a harsh prison sentence after stealing some of her mother's clothes.
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Littlers Field, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the pigeon shooting on Croppers Hill, the feckless Feigh family are back in trouble, the Dentons Green Lane drowning of an unknown man, the spelling bee in Waterloo Street, the clog kicking of constables in Parr, the stealing from the till of the Swan Inn, the foiled burglary attempt on the Peel Arms and a warning against the spreading of mistaken notions of the causes of epidemics.
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Liverpool Road, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the plans to build a new parish church in Rainford move up a gear, the 18-year-old girl's tragic suicide in St Helens Canal after a minor tiff with her boyfriend, the plans to install stained glass windows in the new Town Hall, the Liverpool Road lodging house shawl theft, the duck stealing in Parr, the poker bashing in Gerards Bridge and the cruel miner taken to court for blinding a pit pony.
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Dromgooles, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 FEBRUARY - 1 MARCH 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the mad dog that was at large in St Helens town centre biting persons and other dogs, the playing of guinea cat by workmen at Pilkingtons, the welcome rejection of a chemical company's appeal against polluting a Pocket Nook sewer, the Tea Party and Concert held in Rainford, AJ Young's new coaching and postal service in Bickerstaffe Street and the curious case of the stolen spade.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 FEBRUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens sewers that were found to be acidic through chemical firm's discharges, the man called Garbage that gave the police a severe kicking after being arrested in Ormskirk Street, Rainhill ratepayers battle against a proposed new sewage farm, the cruel farm labourer that hit a horse with a spade and the man that received a severe prison sentence for stealing some stockings from a pub.
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Rainford old parish church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 FEBRUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the plans to build a new parish church in Rainford, the builder injured in an accident in Park Road who received a huge pay-off, the Smithy Brow father forced to pay maintenance for his illegitimate child, the dangerous Jack Tar in the Globe, the thief that stole from a drinker in a Bridge Street pub and the Marshall Cross man rewarded in court for helping a policeman that was being attacked.
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Dromgooles, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 FEBRUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the annual Rainford ploughing match that was held in Crank, the fire that took place at the Friends Meeting House, the overlaid baby in Waterloo Street, the Valentine cards that were on sale in St Helens, the unlicensed hawker who asked a policeman if he wanted to buy some earrings and the black singers from Nashville who were singing slave hymns in the Volunteer Hall in St Helens.
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County Court, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 JAN - 1 FEB 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the official opening of the new St Helens police station and courthouse, the Bold farmer who in St Helens County Court refused to pay a medical bill, Whiston Workhouse's Christmas Tree celebration that featured the St Helens Amateur Christy Minstrels, the theft of a till from the Victoria Vaults in Sutton and the woman who was dubbed a virago that attacked the landlady of a pub in Smithy Brow.
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