150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th AUGUST 1872)
This week's stories include the Good Friday fight in Parr Street in St Helens in which a man bled to death, the boys who could still work up to 54 hours a week down a coalmine, a shocking story of wife beating is told in St Helens Petty Sessions, the latest news of the exploits of Dr Livingstone in Africa, another sad drowning of a child in St Helens, the thieving Nutgrove domestic servant and the Baldwin Street butcher theft.