150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th NOVEMBER 1869)
This week's stories from 1869 include the women from Greenbank who put on an act in court, the drunks that died in the St Helens Canal, the abused Newton-le-Willows servant girl who cut her own throat, the council consider having their own police force, the state-of-the-art steam printing in Hardshaw Street, the resumption of road tolls from Eccleston to Thatto Heath and the brick-throwing fracas at Pilkingtons.