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.
Garswood Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th SEPTEMBER 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the remarkable funeral procession of William Pilkington, a wantonly cruel Parr wife beater appears in court, the inspection of reformatory schools at Blackbrook and Newton, the Sutton woman charged with driving cows that were afflicted with foot and mouth disease, the coming of age celebrations in Garswood and the Eccleston man who declared that he intended to cut somebody's ears off.
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St Helens glassworks summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th SEPTEMBER 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the destructive fire at the Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum, the death of William Pilkington Snr, the mayor of Tokyo visits St Helens, an analysis of the immense number of drinking houses in the town, the woman who said she could live hundreds of thousands of years besides decent neighbours and criticism of the Corporation Fire Brigade for soaking shop fronts while practising.
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Whiston Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th SEPTEMBER 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the imbecile workhouse baker who made too much bread, the banning of unlicensed steam whistles at St Helens' works, the Bridge Street labourer hit on the head by dropped bricks, the rough Parr characters who planned to knock a landlord's head off, the violent thunderstorm in the St Helens district and the pauper kids at Whiston Workhouse written off by those charged with their care.
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Volunteer Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th AUG. - 4th SEPT. 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the effect of the new Licensing Act on drinking in the town, the annual demonstration of the Band of Hope Union, the exploding elephant balloon in Mill Street, the swan stealing in Newton-le-Willows, the little boy that sued another little boy for assault, a very famous comic vocalist comes to St Helens and the completely mad man in Liverpool Road that kicked a constable in the head.
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Fire brigade summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th AUGUST 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the wroth of St Helens tipplers in observing the new Licensing Act, the Rainford farm fire that took fifty minutes for the fire brigade to arrive, the St Helens chemical workers train crash while on a treat to Windermere, the very scandalous language in Liverpool Road and the furious woman prosecuted for giving another woman black eyes who did not understand the meaning of providing sureties.
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Littlers Field summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st AUGUST 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the drunken death of Thomas Beecham's wife, an advertisement for a new assistant nurse at Whiston Workhouse, how the offer of marriage halted a domestic abuse case, the Parr woman accused of behaving in a scandalous manner before hundreds of people, a meeting of the St Helens District Teachers Association and the Crank woman at the centre of a child manslaughter case returns to court.
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Parr Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th AUGUST 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
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.
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Holy Hand summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th AUGUST 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the shocking condition of a Prescot ex-soldier who had fought in the Crimea, the boy who cut a hole in a circus tent on the fairground, the death of a child in an old clay pit in Marshalls Cross, the wonderful cures credited to the holy hand at Garswood, the foundry chimney in St Mary's Street that was demolished by lightning and the mystery of the woman who drowned in the canal at 3am.
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Liverpool Daily Post summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st JULY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the lightning flashes that were blinding in their brilliancy, the shocking Crank miserable little wreck child emaciation case, the porters within the goods department at St Helens Railway Station go on strike, the two boys charged with indecent exposure, the police assault in Rainford as a man attempts to liberate two of their prisoners and love is blind for the Laffak swains and damsels.
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Pilkingtons summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th JULY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the fire at Bold Old Hall farm that led to three brigades being summoned, a savage attack on a man charged with stopping people from bathing in the Ravenhead reservoir, the bad beating up of a policeman by a couple of men, the Pilkington's apprentice who walked out of the glassworks after being fined, St Helens Cricket Club's athletics festival and the sad death of a child in a quarry.
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Poor Law Gazette summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th JULY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the severe storm that caused immense flooding within the St Helens district and struck a train in Rainford, a Prescot curate is declared insane after claiming to be the Prince of Wales, the Sutton Heath explosions that were caused by careless miners, the rewards on offer for apprehending absent husbands and the Parr Flat girl called utterly reckless by her father is sent to prison.
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