150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th FEBRUARY 1870)
This week's stories include the rioting railway navvies in Prescot, the man jailed for begging for bread in Liverpool Road, the Rainford poacher caught carrying a gun disguised as a walking stick, the man jailed for sleeping in a bottleworks, the brutal prize fights in St Helens, the Sutton coppersmith sent to prison for smashing his father's window and St Helens' coachmen hold their annual supper at the Sefton.