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