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.
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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Volunteer Hall, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 JANUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the notorious Rainford poacher who unsuccessfully begged a game watcher not to report him, the excitement over the new Rainhill sewage farm to prevent contagious disease, the annual dinner of the 47th Local Rife Volunteers takes place in the Volunteer Hall, the row over water in Pocket Nook, the new dress warehouse in Hardshaw Street and there's another street death.
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Sefton Arms, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 JANUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a damning indictment of the St Helens Railway Station after the death of a man, the military ball that was held in the Volunteer Hall, the penny reading that was held in Parr, the ice skater that drowned in Sutton after the ice broke up, there's more on St Helens Corporation's purchase of the gasworks and the woman that dropped dead outside the Sefton Arms while wheeling her barrow.
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Whiston Infirmary, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 JANUARY 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the attempt to stop Ex Terra Lucem becoming the town's first motto, there's concern over acids from chemical waste heaps that were flowing into brooks, the drowning in a Cowley Hill clay hole, the two nurses at Whiston Workhouse receive a pay rise, the Water Street fight with a policeman and the death at St Helens Station through crossing the lines rather than using a railway bridge.
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Baldwin Street workhouse, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 DEC 1875 - 4 JAN 1876

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Dark Lane shop in Parr that was prosecuted for having dodgy weights, the two court cases concerning the Druids Arms beerhouse in Sandfield Crescent, the aged poor Christmas hand-outs that took place in Lea Green, the violent assault on a mother-in-law in the former Baldwin Street workhouse and the owner of a cart who was prosecuted for only having his name chalked upon it.
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St Helens Citadel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 DECEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Beauty and the Beast at the Theatre Royal, criticism of the town's new motto, the harsh punishment for the theft of a pinafore, the wicked stepmother who battered two small boys, the fowl deed at Rainhill Asylum, the wife beater who signed the pledge, the man who kicked the wife of a beerhouse keeper in Pocket Nook and the seller of pianofortes and harmoniums on the three year system.
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Eagle and Child, Rainford summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 DECEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the proposed new St Helens coat of arms and motto, the punch up that occurred in the Clock Face Inn, the family fight in the Lamb Hotel in College Street over the landlord's brutal treatment of his wife, the coal miner's widow prosecuted for having nine lodgers sleeping in an unregistered lodging house and the Rainford coal boss who was killed while walking on the railway line.
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Whiston Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 DECEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the robbery from the cabin of a boat on the St Helens Canal, the January Christmas tree at Whiston Workhouse, the scandal of playing billiards for money in the St Helens Liberal Club, most of the town's firemen hand in their resignation, the man sleeping in an outhouse at Ravenhead Colliery that attacked a policeman and the drunken man's fall down the stairs in New Cross Street.
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St Helens Fire Brigade summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 DECEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the resignation of the superintendent of the St Helens fire brigade, the contagious fever epidemics pervading parts of St Helens, the child burning case in Sutton, the conscientious anti-vaccinators that appeared again in court, the Salisbury Hotel's free and easy performances, the death down Peasley Cross Colliery and the woman who used her shawl to steal children's boots.
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St Helens County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 NOVEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the annual inspection of the highways, the annual gathering of the Ragged School and Home Mission, the revenge taken after a County Court case, the ringing of the changes in three St Helens pubs, the fire at Sutton Heath Colliery, the passing of counterfeit coins, the mixed fight in Peasley Cross and the failed attempt to get compensation through falling over a stone in Baldwin Street.
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