150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th September 1869)
This week's stories include the athletics fan who was thrown off a moving train near Clock Face, the "mad drunk" Robins Lane beerhouse keeper who gave his wife a beating, a Rainhill to Sankey pony trotting match, the Albion Hotel window smashing, a petition against a Market Place singing room, the Haydock witness that fled to France and the young Whiston Workhouse potato thieves appear in court.