150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 FEBRUARY 1874
This week's many stories include why the residents of Hardshaw Street were fuming with Greenall's brewery, the disorder at a tea party and ball, the violent Rainhill row between two women, the youth who caused trouble in St Thomas's church, the Noggs protection order, the brainless theft from Liverpool Street lodgings and the stolen jacket in the Hesketh Arms in Church Street that dropped on to a woman's head.