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.
Sutton Oak station, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 JULY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the three railway accidents in which two men and a child lost limbs, the thrashing of a little boy over a lost ball, the violent assault on a constable in Peasley Cross Lane, the rationing of the town's water supply through shortages, a death down Gillars Green Colliery and the St Helens Newspaper hopes that the inhuman brutality for which the town had become notorious had been checked.
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Sutton Grange, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 7 - 13 JULY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include criticism of the chosen location for the new post office, the vicious horse that was said to have jibbed at every street corner, the ex-St Helens grocer who spent £1,000 on booze and was accused of setting fire to a cotton mill, the mother left penniless by her husband who fainted through lack of food and the two tragic child drownings that took place within half-an-hour of each other.
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Pilkington Glassworks St Helens 1870s summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 JUNE - 6 JULY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the melee in Greenbank involving bricks and pokers, the Rainford poaching case, a gigantic strike at Pilkingtons over a wage reduction is averted, the crucifixion case near Golborne, the boy that drowned in a waterfilled pit in Rainford, the Prescot Reporter campaigns for insanitary dwellings to be demolished and the wretched house in which three children had nothing to lie on.
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Bridge Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 JUNE 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 44-year-old man described as an elderly coal stealer, the lazy fellow that attacked his mother in a Greenbank pub, the 11-year-old concertina thief, the window smasher in a police cell, the supposed witnesses to dogs being set on donkeys who had not seen anything and the young man who got his girlfriend of two years standing pregnant but claimed he had only spoken to her once.
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St Helens Hospital summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 JUNE 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include St Helens Cottage Hospital's successful annual meeting, the ongoing scarlet fever outbreak in St Helens, how Thatto Heath was fast developing into a little village, two similar pit sinking deaths occur in Bold and in Thatto Heath through the negligence of workers and there's hope that the new Rivers Pollution Bill would improve both the highly polluted Sankey Brook and Mersey river.
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Red White and Blue pub St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 JUNE 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Robins Lane trespassing case by a nine-year-old boy, the Westfield Street pub that was illegally serving drinks, the Baxters Lane sewage that was flowing around people's yards, Denis Feigh is released from prison and then swiftly returned to gaol, the excitement surrounding a Sutton council by-election and the man who beat up a police constable after he had refused to arrest him.
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Holy Cross Church, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 JUNE 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the angry woman that smashed the windows of her own home, the child that was knocked down by a horse and cart in Smithy Brow, the middle-aged couple from Earlestown who eloped, the tramps that heartlessly deserted a child in Burtonwood, the death of a nine-year-old hitchhiker in Parr and the Church Street draper who was given permission to work women for 14 hours a day.
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Laceys School, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 MAY - 1 JUNE 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Atlas Street house that an inspector found twenty-six people living inside, Queen Victoria gives her blessing for a discrimination-free Cowley Middle School, the bonnet stealing that took place in Talbot Street, the man that was only fined after stabbing a bobby in Hamer Street and the brutal market boss who magistrates said had suffered considerable aggravation from his abused wife.
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Newton Races summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 MAY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the revenge of the fourteen-year-old street rough that liked to assault girls, some shocking death statistics for 1874 are released, the strange reason a police officer had been stationed in St Helens Cemetery, the feckless Feigh family are reunited in prison, the St Helens Newspaper feels that the town is going backwards and preparations are made for the forthcoming Newton Races.
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St Helens fire brigade summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 MAY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the cases of smallpox that had broken out in Whiston Workhouse killing one child, the celebrations of Whit Monday that took place in St Helens, the Grand Gala that was held at Prescot, the boy sneak thief returns to court and how firemen were accused of not knowing what they were doing when they caused water damage while dealing with a small fire in a Church Street draper's.
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Rosbothams School summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 MAY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Greenbank riot after the police put a stop to a prize fight, the boys that were prosecuted for running a foot race in Rainford, the curious procession by a Lowton society for the protection of women, the young man who got his girlfriend pregnant but denied responsibility in court and the public meeting at the Golden Lion in Rainford to extend the provision of schools in the village.
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