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 Colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd AUGUST 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the mild penalty imposed on two women after committing a savage clogs assault, the head of Prescot police claims that on Sundays youths were turning the streets of his town into a pandemonium, a card sharper is caught at Newton Fair, the man who beat the Rainford Colliery Co. at its own game and the woman in the County Court whose debts were wiped out after getting married.
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St Helens County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th AUGUST 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the curious drowning of a child in a Lea Green pit, a harsh prison sentence is imposed on the thieving Sutton postie, a Rainford man's murderous assault on a friend with a poker, the workhouse cook's dodgy meals are under scrutiny, an accusation of illegal gambling is made against a police officer in Smithy Brow and the outspoken lawyer Thomas Swift finally has his wings clipped.
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St Ann's Church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th AUGUST 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Tontine Street wife stabber who behaved like a baby in court, the four men accused of raping two Parr sisters are handed long sentences in prison, the touchy mayor of St Helens sues once again for libel, the first ever official August Bank Holiday is held, a death takes place in the engine department of Sutton Glassworks and St Anne's Roman Catholic church in Sutton has a special visitor.
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Raglan Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th JULY - 1st AUG. 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Peasley Cross firm that silvered the largest mirror in Lancashire, a Sutton Glassworks outing to the Lakes ends in tragedy, the Cowley Hill boys charged with pigeon stealing, a fascinating account of a train journey in the real Wild West, the dead cousins left down a Haydock coal mine and the bishop who criticised the many Roman Catholics in prison and drunken overlaying of babies.
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Holy Cross Church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th JULY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the shocking insanitary state of Rainford, the high price of getting a divorce, the incorrigible character Catherine Dunn returns to court, a claim that the new Grace's Square in Sutton was being illegally built, the Moss Bank man in a precarious state, the females fighting in Parr, the insulting lads outside the Nag's Head and the heavy fines for Rainford miners who had quit their jobs.
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Waterdale House summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th JULY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the opening of the new St Helens Railway Station, a serious horse attack at the Stork Inn in Billinge, the second St Helens Cricket Club's athletics festival in Dentons Green, two accidents with horse-drawn vehicles occur in St Helens, the controversial compulsory smallpox vaccination and the man accused of threatening a neighbour who claimed he was only talking to his tobacco.
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Alexandra Colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th JULY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a sad suicide in St Helens Canal, the Rainhill man who said he was utterly unconscious of a Prescot dog ban, the decision is taken to build a new St Helens Town Hall, an alarming railway accident takes place at Rainford, the man given seven years in prison for stealing a meat pie and the miner with safety concerns charged with leaving his job at Alexandra Colliery without giving notice.
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Poor Law Gazette summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th JUNE - 4th JULY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the wife deserter in America with a conscience, the St Helens man who missed his train and became drunk and riotous in Ormskirk, St Helens Petty Sessions hears of a most disgraceful and abominable assault on a wife, the harsh treatment of miners at Ashton, smallpox rears its ugly head in the district and the tramp who bedded himself inside a pig sty after turning out the pigs.
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Whiston Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th JUNE 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the brutal wife-beater who received his comeuppance, the violent Looney family of Smithy Brow, the tardy Whiston Workhouse pauper who was sent to prison, a severe storm hits the district, the death of a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, a knife attack outside a pub in Canal Street, the apprentice prosecuted for not going to work and the diseased pig carcass in Warrington Road.
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Newton Races summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th JUNE 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the man accused of burning down St Helens Town Hall, the boys who were ordered to be soundly whipped for throwing stones, the end of tolls on the road between St Helens and Liverpool, a claim that the town of Prescot was dying, the Haydock Mission School treat, Newton Races takes place and the scary mask dispute in Ormskirk Street in St Helens between a doctor and a carriage maker.
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Engineer Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th JUNE 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the 13-year-old girl from College Street sent to prison for stealing from Pilkingtons, the unwanted kissing of women on the streets of Prescot, a double family tragedy underground at Pewfall Colliery, the outspoken solicitor Thomas Swift is sued for criminal slander, the new St Helens pubs that contained no beer and the campaign to introduce decimalisation and the metric system.
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