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.
Citadel St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 OCTOBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the overwinding accident that took place at Nutgrove Colliery while two men were pit sinking, the violence in a College Street beerhouse over a card game, the straw stack blaze at Bold in which the fire brigade took an hour to arrive, the plans to create the Mersey Tunnel, the hare coursing case in Rainford and the reopening of the redecorated and beautified Theatre Royal in St Helens.
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Parr Street St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 OCTOBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drunken man who drove his cart into a load of bricks in Park Road, the attempted rape by a lodger, the purring case in Haydock, the fatal accident to a sleepwalker in Boundary Lane, the attempt to take an arrested man from Liverpool Road to the police station and the openings of the Rainford Catholic Chapel, the new Conservative Club and the tobacco showrooms in Naylor Street.
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St Helens Hospital summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 OCTOBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Newspaper's criticism of the drunkenness that was prevalent in St Helens, Hospital Saturday takes place to raise funds for the cottage hospital, the young father who refused to obey a bastardy order, the malicious acts committed against the Lorne Hotel, the Greenbank stabbing of a young woman by the father of her children and the policeman that had his trousers torn to pieces.
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Baldwin Street Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 SEPT - 5 OCT 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the retirement of the Prescot police chief through being violently assaulted on numerous occasions, the St Helens licensing blacklist, the violent storm that struck St Helens, Sutton Cricket Club play an unusual game between married and single men, the indecent exposure that took place in Dunriding Lane and the Prescot Guardians are told to stop claiming free meals when having meetings.
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Pilkingtons Glass, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 SEPTEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the intolerable nuisances that took place in Victoria Passage, the wild Irish farm workers causing trouble outside Rainford's Derby Arms, the strange death in Liverpool of a well-known St Helens builder, the formation of a shorthand writers association for St Helens, the brainless theft of a coat from a Bridge Street beerhouse and the death of a boy employed at Pilkingtons Glass Works.
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Kirkdale Prison, Liverpool summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 SEPTEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the abominable offence committed in the stable of Rainford's Derby Arms, the man who wandered into a coal mine and began playing at being an engineer, the almighty row in Phythian Street, how a drunken Dusty Bob died on a Rainford railway line, the attempted rape of a nine-year-old girl and the Smithy Brow row in which the contents of a bedroom po were poured over a woman's head.
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Watery Lane, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 SEPTEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the tobacco and cigar manufactory that was coming to St Helens, the fake Liverpool doctor that got a Rainhill housemaid pregnant, the Ellamsbridge Road melee between the landlords of the Mechanics Arms and Victoria Vaults, the curious attempt at an indecent assault on a woman at Whiston and the Eccleston cook who was attacked while walking to a religious service in Prescot.
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Parr Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 SEPTEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Dentons Green pear thefts of a magistrate, the start of the temperance groups' fight against the many St Helens pubs, a call for the building of a good approach road to the new Town Hall, the rejoicing at the foundation stone laying of a new Methodist church and the claim of sexual assault in Union Street in St Helens that was dismissed because of the delay in the victim reporting it.
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Liverpool Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the new harsh rules for the extreme poor claiming relief, the violent women's quarrel that took place in a Water Street inn, the married couple brutally kicked in Greenbank, the Phythian Street bother that led to a charge of assault against a bobby being dropped and the Liverpool Street woman who said the man that had stolen clothes from her home had only been trying to plague her.
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St Helens Foundry summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the stringent cuts that were planned in relief payments for the very poor, the St Helens butcher who bought sheep infected with foot and mouth disease, the engineering apprentice who sought to cancel his indentures as he wanted to go to sea, the brutal attack on an old woman in Whiston and Beechams seek compensation from the railway company for damage to a consignment of pills.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Parr purring threat that failed a prosecution, the paralysed beggar who was sent to prison after supping in a Liverpool Road pub, the drunk in the marketplace pottery stand, the clown cricketers that easily beat St Helens Cricket Club, the brutal kicking of a Cowley Street wife and the row over ducks eating corn that led to an old woman in Parr getting herself knocked to the ground.
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