150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th APRIL 1870)
This week's many stories include the drunken cook in Whiston Workhouse, an update on the Pilkington glass strike, the deadly joke that was played on a female tramp at Haydock, an arson attack on land at Eccleston, the lodgers in the old Baldwin Street workhouse, another wandering cow story, the annual distribution of the Windle Dole and the man who blamed being "beerified" for thieving from Rainford's Bridge Inn.