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.
Kirkdale Gaol

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th NOVEMBER 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the cow that went for a wander inside a Prescot hotel, the fury over the re-emergence of the Eccleston toll-bar, the slag that was thrown at a woman in Parr that missed its mark, there are more severe sentences for stealing wearing apparel, a black-faced troupe of minstrels performs in the Town Hall and the violent wife-beater who in a fit of rage committed suicide in the St Helens Canal.
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David Gamble

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th Oct. - 3rd Nov. 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the corrupt St Helens councillors who bought their way into office, the Westfield Street brothel keeper who picked up trouble in Bolton, miners demand protection for boys down coal mines, a prosecution for perjury by a Cotham Street doctor against a Market Street bootmaker, the woman who used frightful imprecations in Prescot and the racist railway row between an Irishman and a Welshman.
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Red Lion

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th October 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the farmer who fell into a threshing machine on Leach Hall Farm, a Sutton pub landlord learns the perils of pigeon racing, the Prescot police cell that four prisoners had left in a "beastly condition", the gloom caused by the death of Lord Derby, a presentation in Rainhill to the philanthropic Bretherton family and the man who claimed that Beecham's pills were the best medicine in the world.
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Duke Street

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th October 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a Duke Street joy ride that led to a prison sentence, a kitten causes a fire in Prescot, an auction of pews in St Helens Parish Church, the former workhouse master is in court charged with assault, there's an opportunity to buy your own coal mine, the disgraced Parr vicar is taken to court for maintenance by his former lover and the cows and pigs at the Talbot Hotel.
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“Canal

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th October 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 10-year-old boy sent to prison for stealing a bag of nails, two violent Peasley Cross poachers, two destructive fires at Nutgrove Farm, a warning that the council chamber was in danger of becoming a bear garden, a temperance meeting in Sutton, a fatal walk on the railway line to Rainhill and the recidivist Catherine Yates is back on the streets charged with indecency in Canal Street.
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“Griffin

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th Sept. - 6th Oct. 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the tollgates to Thatto Heath, Eccleston and Parr, the Rainford poacher watcher on duty in Maggots Nook, a sumptuous dinner at the Griffin Inn, the woman involved in a Prescot poker assault who performed a man's toilet, the Eccleston Penny Readings, the shameful attack in Parr, the excitable woman in a Snig Lane scrimmage and the violent wife who hit her husband over the head with a pan.
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“St

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th September 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the gang of burglars that had "infested" the town, the slanderous women's whispering in Parr, a new schoolmistress at Whiston Workhouse, an assault in Liverpool Road, the utterly reckless girl thief from Parr Flat who liked to go out at night, agitation by local miners, a concert for the victims of the Haydock Colliery explosion and the first dedicated Baptist Chapel.
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“Bridge

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd September 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the conclusion of the Parr vicar sex scandal, St Helens's enormous cucumbers, the donkey stone assault in Eccleston, the 'Grand Display of Fireworks' in Thatto Heath, a distraction theft takes place in the Shakespeare Inn in Bridge Street, two old offenders are back on the streets and a Grand Concert is held in aid of the families of the victims of the Haydock Colliery explosion.
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“Liverpool

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th September 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a violent assault at St Helens Junction on the workhouse doctor by the ex-Master, the cruel child beater of Parr who used a leather belt on his wife, an advertisement for a new schoolmistress for Whiston Workhouse, an inspection of Lancashire lunatics, the St Helens fair takes place, there's more begging in Liverpool Road and why the rain was good news for industry.
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“Bowling

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th September 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
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.
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“Tontine

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th August - 1st Sept. 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the dreadful state of Thatto Heath with poor roads and water supply, the dangerous lunatics in Whiston Workhouse, more neighbours battle it out in Parr, a schoolteacher is forced to quit her job, a concert in aid of the Haydock Explosion Fund, the beerhouse brothel of Water Street, the troublesome Maid of Erin of Tontine Street and a Prescot woman is jailed for shouting in the street.
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