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.
Market summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 SEPTEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the formation of a fife and drum band at Whiston Workhouse, the blackguard market traders in St Helens that were passing blasphemous remarks, the Water Street fight that became a pointless and expensive court case, the liquidation of the mismanaged Sutton Alkali Co-operative Society and a chemical factory in Pocket Nook denies polluting sewers in St Helens with noxious matter.
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St Helens County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 SEPTEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the claim of murder in Parr Flat, the indecent assault on a 12-year-old girl in Moss Bank, there is more stinging criticism of the court system in St Helens, the St Helens magistrates reject applications by beerhouses to sell spirits, the exiled German Fathers perform at Lowe House Church and the cricket match in Dentons Green in which only the two captains knew how to play the game.
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Lowe House summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 AUGUST - 1 SEPT 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fathers that were ordered to birch their own sons under the supervision of the police, the Water Street female sweet seller who was accused of providing extra services to men, there's criticism of the lack of an art school in St Helens, some shocking starvation cases in London are described and the lucky escape of the man who tried to board a moving train at St Helens Station.
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Whiston workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 AUGUST 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the concern and complacency over the high rate of infant mortality in St Helens, the domestic servant's theft of cash from a Prescot doctor, the living skeletons in Whiston Workhouse, the illicit Sunday morning drinking in Prescot, a meeting is held in Gerards Bridge of the Catholic Association for the Suppression of Drunkenness and an inquiry is held into the water shortage in Whiston.
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Rainford catholic school summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 AUGUST 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Blackbrook woman who suffered a dreadful death from rabies, the return to court of a woman accused of being a disreputable character, the opening of the first Catholic school in Rainford for a hundred years, the little boys that were prosecuted for simply walking across a field and the man accused of being a lazy, drunken, idle fellow who said he wanted to cherish his wife.
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Tontine Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 AUGUST 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the runaway horse in Tontine Street that dashed into a shop window, the brutal attack on an old man in Parr because he was Irish, the knife assault in a Sutton pub, the Parr woman charged with uttering counterfeit coin, the miserable looking old man who stole bread from a Church Street shop and several fathers are prosecuted for not having their child vaccinated against smallpox.
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Sutton Heath colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JULY - 4 AUG 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the boy who was labelled a street Arab and who swam like a frog and dashed up a chimney, the devastating Liverpool docks fire, the Sutton mother who begged magistrates to punish her wayward boy, the washing machine on sale in Hamer Street, the family that attacked a policeman in Greenbank and the lads that were arrested for committing indecent exposure while bathing in the canal.
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Prescot Parish Church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JULY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the dirty dialogue that took place between two women in Liverpool Street, the stormy meeting inside Prescot Parish Church to discuss the renovation of its interior, the Ravenhead Plate Glass Works excursion to Morecambe Bay, the photography club in Ormskirk Street, the new omnibus service to Haydock and an Irish home rule campaigner delivers a lecture in St Helens.
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St Helens Foundry summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 JULY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the freak of a lunatic at Bold, the man who was prosecuted for taking two days off work, the overcrowded and smelly lodging houses, the sleeping man in Dentons Green Lane that had his watch pinched, the vast assemblage that attended the St Helens Athletics Festival and the man who called himself an unfortunate creature who the police needed to tie to a hand cart to take to the station.
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Holy Cross Church, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 JULY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the new church planned for Earlestown, the society wedding of the year takes place, the horse stealing in Rainford that led to a heavy prison sentence, the joiners striking over apprentices, the suicide of a Rainford doctor, the diorama in the Volunteer Hall and the brutal wife beater returns to court to face his victim who was bearing what was described as having a most death-like appearance.
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Roughdales, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 JULY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a shocking case of wife beating by a husband who had previously threatened to murder his spouse, more on the criticism of the bricks that were being used to build the new St Helens Town Hall, the deadly kick from a cow in Prescot, the eleven-year-old boys who were illegally employed in a brickfield and the arrested man who encouraged people on the street to throw stones at the police.
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