St Helens History This Week

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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.
Crab Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st MAY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the start of the "abominable" Prescot sex scandal involving two men, a large American circus and menagerie performs in St Helens, the squabbling neighbours of Peckers Hill Road, the St Helens Harmonic Society's hot concert in the Town Hall, a rapid writing course is held in Church Street, the family "shindy" that took place in Sutton and a campaign is launched to preserve Thatto Heath.
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Whiston Workhouse

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th MAY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a claim of attempted rape in Bold Park, the former workhouse master who claimed persecution, the Visiting Commissioner in Lunacy carries out an inspection of Whiston Workhouse, a woman with two terrible black eyes accuses her husband of beating her, there's short measure at the Lamb Inn and the poor woman arrested for sleeping rough in the grounds of a Prescot mansion.
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Sandfield Crescent St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th MAY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the performing bears in St Helens, the runaway horse in Liverpool Road, a brutal assault takes place on a Whiston wife, the widening of Ormskirk Street, the St Helens train that hit a horse, a Prescot publican is charged with harbouring a policeman, the bullyragged woman from Sandfield Crescent and the "idle, drunken and disorderly" woman charged with sleeping in the open air at Windle.
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Gas works St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th MAY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Parr woman violently assaulted by her husband, a succession of accidents take place at Farnworth, the woman who was removed from the court dock howling terribly and tearing her bonnet, the Worshippers of the Rosy God appear in court, the gruesome case of the wandering cow, Greenalls annual dinner for their tenants at the Fleece and why St Helens folk were worked up over gas.
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Pilkington Glass St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th APRIL - 3rd MAY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the freaks of nature at the St Helens Fair, an update on the Pilkington glassblowers' strike, the Rainford miner's family that were in complete destitution, the annual May Day horse and cart parade in St Helens, the Rainhill drunk who thought Yorkshire was another country and the fearfully cold man who was in a police cell because he had found a fork and spoon on an Eccleston road.
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Old St Helens Town Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th APRIL 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drunken cook in Whiston Workhouse, an update on the Pilkington glass strike, the deadly joke that was played on a female tramp at Haydock, an arson attack on land at Eccleston, the lodgers in the old Baldwin Street workhouse, another wandering cow story, the annual distribution of the Windle Dole and the man who blamed being "beerified" for thieving from Rainford's Bridge Inn.
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Prescot Parish Church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th APRIL 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the "obnoxious individual" mobbed by a crowd of angry women outside St Helens courthouse, the drunken row of the two Prescot carters, the opening of Victoria Pleasure Gardens in Thatto Heath, the start of a long strike at Pilkingtons over a cut in wages, the St Helens solicitor's clerk who did a runner with his boss's cash and the controversial issue of a Sunday offertory at Prescot Church.
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Citadel

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th APRIL 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the "contemptible set of adventurers" performing at the Theatre Royal, the woman who went back to live with her violent husband in Moss Bank, a poker assault in a lodging house in Tontine Street, two women battle it out in Greenbank, two more women battle it out in Parr, the girl who stole a child's sovereign in Pocket Nook and concern over the danger of drowning in St Helens Canal.
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Crown Glassworks Summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th MARCH - 5th APRIL 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Bridge Street butcher's wife who said her husband threatened to cut her heart out, the "shocking immorality and depraved habits" revealed in court, an inquest jury calls for human life at St Helens Canal to be protected, a savage assault on an "old man" of fifty at Peasley Cross, the man prosecuted for wasting water and why the copper workers in Sutton had presented a bible to their boss.
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Ell Bess Arms Summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th MARCH 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Park Road woman who claimed a policeman made her return to her abusive husband, the Fingerpost baby that died after catching a cold, the noxious fumes from Sutton Copper Works that damaged the Bold Hall estate, the Rainhill love letter, the Free Town Hall Breakfast Table and the Waterloo Street cannon explosion when workmen celebrated the 21st birthday of their boss's son.
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St Annes Summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd MARCH 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the madman inside St. Anne's monastery, why cannons were being fired in celebration in Rainhill, two women scrap like bulldogs in Pocket Nook, the depraved young girl from Napier Street, the scandalous slander charge against a couple from Rainhill, the Parr woman who forgave her husband for assaulting her and the bare-knuckle prize fighter that brutally attacked a Prescot woman.
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