150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19 - 25 JUNE 1873)
This week's stories include the Thatto Heath man accused of disgusting savagery through biting his cousin's ear off, Billinge goes en fete to celebrate the opening of new schools, the need for an infectious diseases hospital after smallpox breaks out in Parr, the two brothers that drowned in Groves Dam in Sutton and the gigantic mirrors that were made and silvered in St Helens for display at a London exhibition.