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.
St Helens market summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 JUNE 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the children's Race Friday parades that served as counter-attractions to Newton Races, how a breach of the peace in Greenbank was punished by a nine-month prison sentence, the stealing of a pipe from a man's mouth in Bridge Street, the intolerable smell that came from an East Street ashpit and the man accused of giving his wife abominable treatment who threatened to cut her throat.
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Junction Hotel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 JUNE 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a defence of the bricks being used to build the new town hall, the violent woman who told magistrates her motto was death or glory, the fire at Pewfall Colliery caused by a furnaceman moving ashes, the fake traveller at the Junction Hotel, the battle of the billposters who stuck their notices onto the same wall and the woman who sought revenge against a witness in a court case.
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Kirkdale Gaol summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 JUNE 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the begging letter impostor who said he wanted to go to America to stake an inheritance, criticism of the "shameful" bricks that were being used to build the new Town Hall, the pit sinker killed at Whiston, why houses in the higher parts of the town had a disrupted water supply, the Prescot Grand Fete and the bankruptcy of the Water Street tailor that sued the St Helens Newspaper for libel.
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Liverpool Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 MAY - 2 JUNE 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the highway robbery that took place inside a Croppers Hill railway tunnel, there's more wife beating in St Helens, the disorderly blackguards in Liverpool Street, the 2,000 children that participated in a Band of Hope march to Sherdley Park, the knifing attack in Gerards Bridge, a poker assault in Market Street and the St Helens Newspaper predicts cremation will never prove popular.
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Pilkingtons, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 MAY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the campaign to clean up the filthy lodging houses of Prescot, how a wet Whit Monday was celebrated by thousands of children in St Helens, a claim for compensation for the breaking of a child's leg, the ticket-of-leave man that attacked a policeman in Salisbury Street, the abusive beggar going round houses in Sutton and the battered wife that asked the Bench to be lenient with her husband.
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St Helens Cottage Hospital, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 MAY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the filthy tumble-down cottages of Prescot, the laying of the foundation stone of Rainford's Catholic school, the damages awarded for breach of promise of marriage, the fines given to the badly paid night soil men, the repulsive looking woman who stole boots from Claughton Street, the shocking health report for 1873 and why the body of a chemical worker was exhumed from a cemetery.
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Liverpool Mercury summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 MAY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the bottle boys employed at Nuttalls who complained of being beaten, how the installation of a telegraph wire at Eccleston waterworks would improve communication, the man dubbed a lunatic who claimed to be an inspector of coal mines, the shocking scalding fatality that took place at the Hardshaw Brook Alkali Works, the furious driving of young sand carters in Taylors Row in Sutton.
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Rainhill Asylum summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 APRIL - 5 MAY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the finest display that was ever witnessed in the May Day horse parade in St Helens, the tramps that stayed overnight in Whiston Workhouse, the battered wife who was blamed for provoking her husband, Rainhill Lunatic Asylum increases its rates of admission, the workhouse boy who became a thief and the Peasley Cross girl who was killed while taking dinner to her father.
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Tontine Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 APRIL 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the betting mania in Prescot, the violent passenger at the St Helens Station who behaved like a lunatic, the glassworker fined for arriving ten minutes late at work, the man charged with having a diseased pig in Tontine Street, the obnoxious impost of income tax, the dog at Peckers Hill that was supposedly set on a man during a row and the vandalised boring machinery in Rainford.
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Bold Colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 APRIL 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the repulsive burglar of Raglan Street, the battered wife whose retaliation against her husband led to her court case being dismissed, the creation of Bold Colliery, the County Court case in which a man's admission that he had beaten his wife was seen as a positive thing and newspaper adverts for a moderate curate, respectable girls to pack washing powder and the services of a billposter.
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Liverpool Mercury summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 APRIL 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the wife who refused to give evidence against her violent spouse, the vast throng that watched a sham battle on a Rainhill field, more runaway apprentices face the music, a fatal hobbyhorse accident at St Helens Station, the youngsters prosecuted for chatting outside a shop and the two fighting women, one of whom claimed to have received a "smack in the face" and the other a "slap in the mug".
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