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.
Prescot Penny Bank

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th MARCH 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the dirty, ragged children causing pandemonium outside the Prescot Penny Bank, the "undaycent" name-calling by a woman in Parr, trespassing in pursuit of game in Moss Bank, the brainless watch-stealing lodger in Rainford, the excitable woman in the St Helens County Court and concern that the Rivers Pollution Commissioners would ban St Helens factories from polluting streams.
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Whiston Workhouse

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th MARCH 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Irish Fenians that would meet in a Parr Street beerhouse, a three-year-old Sutton boy is summoned to court for smashing a window, the St Helens' works that made candles for coal mines, the Parr man who walked out on his family leaving them penniless, the fees for lunatics in Rainhill Asylum, the infestation of burglars in St Helens, and a setback for plans to widen Church Street.
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Newton Races summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th FEB. - 1st MARCH 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Pocket Nook house that was full of rats, the Peasley Cross poker woman who smashed up her neighbour's door, the violent man in the Nelson Inn who was mad in drink, the thieving lodger from Parr, the filthy and disgusting language used in a Whiston maintenance case, the start of Newton Races and the boy who stole a pistol from a Liverpool Road shop in order to swap it for a pigeon.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd FEBRUARY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Welsh woman from Moss Nook who was kicked unconscious, criticism of the Prescot Board of Guardians for slinking off to the Green Dragon, the "backwardation" of smoky gas lamps in St Helens, a fire in a shop in Eccleston Street in Prescot, the distinguished St Helens Catholic Charity Ball and the man who called a woman a witch in a Parr beerhouse and gave her a tremendous smack.
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Letter on vaccination in Wigan Observer

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th FEBRUARY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Prescot boys imprisoned and flogged for stealing a rabbit, a destitute woman is sent to prison for stealing coal, the "extraordinary novelty" of a French marionette show at the Town Hall, a man from Windle Street challenges the need for vaccination, Pilkington's annual workers' soiree, the dirty lights on the streets, rumours about Dr Livingstone and the severe weather in the town.
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Liverpool Road summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th FEBRUARY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the rioting railway navvies in Prescot, the man jailed for begging for bread in Liverpool Road, the Rainford poacher caught carrying a gun disguised as a walking stick, the man jailed for sleeping in a bottleworks, the brutal prize fights in St Helens, the Sutton coppersmith sent to prison for smashing his father's window and St Helens' coachmen hold their annual supper at the Sefton.
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Cowley House summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th JAN. - 2nd FEB. 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the thousand skaters on St Ann's Dam, the Prescot landlord charged with harbouring a policeman, the stone throwing in Croppers Hill, the dumping of night soil on the street, the son of the notorious Dennis Fay appears in court, the boy who made whip handles out of trees in the future Victoria Park and the woman who wanted a gold ring and dress before she would marry her child's father.
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Prescot Reporter summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the man sent to prison for singing in the street, the deaf blacksmith that walked on the Parr branch railway line, the road rage near Rainford, the two Peasley Cross women who fought each other most savagely, the Whiston carter that had a "wonderful escape from instant death" and an allegation of corruption at an Eccleston council by-election in which women were allowed to vote.
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Kirkdale prison

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the pocket picking on a St Helens train, the evicted Parr man accused of making off with a door, more harsh sentences are passed in the Quarter Sessions, the damsel tramp who stole overcoats in Prescot, the shoplifter in a Naylor Street shop who was caught when a boot rail "treacherously" fell and the Water Street beerhouse that had been accused of being a brothel is back in the news.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the violent gang of scoundrels that stole a shawl in Croppers Hill, the listless indifference shown by St Helens' folk towards their MPs, an indecent assault takes place on a Parr woman, the St Helens' bank that went out of business, the Laffak Colliery pitmen who were prosecuted for quitting their jobs and the many St Helens men who deserted their families and left them penniless.
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Sherdley Hall St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th DEC. 1869 - 5th JAN. 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a New Year's Eve dinner for the old folk of Eccleston, the angry butcher that attacked a policeman in St Helens Market, a savage assault on a horse in Prescot, St Helens Town Council's fines for absentee councillors, an unprovoked brutal assault on a lad in Whiston, a New Year’s Day meeting of St Helens' miners and the annual teas and balls that were held in St Helens and Prescot.
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