St Helens History This Week

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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.
St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th MARCH 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the poker battle between neighbours in Parr, a fierce attack on longwinded councillors, the appointment of a much-needed Medical Officer of Health for St Helens, the unlicensed gun in Rainford, the feckless Feigh family's harsh punishment and why the government inspector of chemical works in St Helens could do little to prevent shrubs at the Borough Cemetery from turning black.
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Roger Tichborne summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th MARCH 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fraud in a Duke Street fish shop by men claiming to be inspectors of weights and measures, the miner fatally crushed down Peasley Cross Colliery, a call for something to be done to abate discharges from St Helens chemical factories, the Sunday shindy in Parr involving a mixed-sex fight and the man at the centre of the most amazing story of Victorian times arrives in St Helens.
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Moss Bank, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th FEB. - 5th MARCH 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the lunatic that was dangerously at large on the railway line at Moss Bank, some shocking St Helens death statistics, the Sutton sweeping brush squabble between two neighbours, the sending of a disgusting Valentines card, the horse that died after backing into a pit at Cowley Hill, the gold ring scam in Raglan Street and the gang of young roughs causing trouble at the Theatre Royal.
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Dromgooles, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th FEBRUARY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the big increase in the sending of Valentine cards in St Helens and Liverpool, the pitiful woman who was sent to prison for a month for attempting a sixpenny fraud, Pilks' annual soirée in the Volunteer Hall, the depressed man found floating in the canal, the St Helens mayor is slated by the Newspaper and the Pilkingtons bonus scheme for its management staff – but not for its workers.
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Raglan Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th FEBRUARY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the attempted rape in Sutton as a Peckers Hill Road woman walked to a shop, the Fleet Lane fight over a debt to a beerhouse owner for food and drink, the little girls' theft of old clothes and clogs from a house in Eccleston, the wearing apparel thefts off a Parr clothes-line and a child is killed by shunting wagons while stealing coal from Gamble's chemical works in Gerards Bridge.
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Holy Cross Church, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th FEBRUARY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the cost of maintaining Prescot Union lunatics in asylums, Manders' animal menagerie returns to St Helens, the evil smoke that had blanketed the borough cemetery, the Greenbank attack on a policeman, a civic deputation complain to a railway boss about the state of St Helens Station and the Welshman who couldn't speak English that had his clothes stolen in a Church Street beerhouse.
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St Helens County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th JAN. - 5th FEB. 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the case of the black entertainer that was charged with breaking a window on a train with his banjo, the alleged theft at a Westfield Street house of ill repute, the female squabble in Liverpool Street on New Year's Day, the annual meeting of the St Helens Home Rule Association and the curious friendly society court case in which two men both claimed to be the husband of a deceased woman.
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St Helens Cottage Hospital nurses summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th JANUARY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the night soil sale in Parr, the orphan girls that were wanted to work at St Helens Cottage Hospital, the improvements planned for the town's poor railway station, the St Helens Mineral Water Manufacturers Association's new scheme to get back their bottles and the man who refused to pay his wife's debts despite publishing a newspaper indemnity notice is sued in the St Helens County Court.
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St Annes Church St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd JANUARY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the opening of the St Helens Cottage Hospital in Peasley Cross, the respectable Rainford coal thieves, the stone throwing boys who joined in an adult dispute, the Liverpool Road man who beat his wife for drinking, the unfortunate boy John Feigh is sent back to prison after committing a burglary and a court takes pity on a "dissipated old" man from Clock Face who was only in his fifties.
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Wheatsheaf, Rainford summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th JANUARY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the drunk in the Wheatsheaf in Rainford that attacked a policeman, a lodger's brainless theft from his Eccleston home, the Lowe Street slag that hurt a horse, the Windle Park poacher that attacked a gamekeeper, the quick-fire theft from the Albion in Parr, the New Year's Day party in Rainford that turned into a family fight and the stubborn Parr pony boy who refused to give his parents his keep.
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Whiston Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th JANUARY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the railwayman's robbery of boots and pickles, the young boy's attempted sneak cash theft from a Liverpool Road grocer's, the repeat prosecutions against smallpox vaccination defaulters, the gambling game in Parr, there are two cases of wife beating and a claim that Irishmen attacked police officers in St Helens on an almost daily basis in an attempt to rescue their prisoners.
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