150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd June 1869)
This week's stories include a fowl theft in Dentons Green, the brutal beater of his own father at Broad Oak returns to court, the Rainford parish clerk who officiated at 10,000 births, marriages and deaths, there's a fire at a foundry in Eccleston, a lecture on the "evils of strong drink" is delivered at the Ragged School, the mother castigated for not sending her son to church and the woman afraid of being bitten.