150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th JULY 1870)
This week's stories include an abominable sentence for an abominable crime at Eccleston, concern over a lack of water in Parr, why women were considered the best attraction at the Prescot Horticultural Society's annual exhibition, there's road rage in Eccleston, a theft by an ungrateful man in the Gerard Arms and a woman is seriously injured at Rainhill Railway station while attempting to get out of a moving train.