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.
Volunteer Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th JUNE - 3rd JULY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the sheep that tried to jump through a Prescot shop window, the drunks that turned up in St Helens County Court to argue over a featherbed, the cruel mother who wanted her daughter to stay out all night, the most extraordinary weather occurs in St Helens, the man who drove his horse and cart furiously through Bridge Street and the Continental diorama amazing folk at the Volunteer Hall.
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Liverpool Road summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th JUNE 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the bucket of water solution to a chemical works fire, a Westfield Street brothel is raided by the police, the thunderstorm of exceptional severity that struck St Helens, the longstanding feud between two Liverpool Road rag dealers, the maniacal butcher that had to be placed in a straightjacket and the man credited with first importing the term OK into the UK appears in St Helens.
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St Helens work and rest

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th JUNE 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Pocket Nook stabbing case, the Sutton calf that was described as a freak of nature, the day Moses tried to part Abel's head in Bridge Street, a detailed critique of the smoke nuisance in St Helens, Clark's World-Famed Blood Mixture that John Cotton's chemist's shop was selling in Market Street, two curious train fare dodger cases and Pilkington's annual treat for their boy glass workers.
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St Helens County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th JUNE 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the impudent highway robbery in Pocket Nook, the child star who was performing in the Volunteer Hall in St Helens, the violent assaults made on police officers in Parr and Thatto Heath, the feckless Feigh family who appeared in court as often as the magistrates and the judge that claimed that the St Helens working class were the most well off in the country but wouldn't pay their debts.
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Newton Races summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th MAY - 5th JUNE 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the blacksmith that was wrongly charged with indecently assaulting a child in Parr, the woman falsely accused of stealing money from a Greenbank lodging house, the man who worked a 150-hour week, the Westfield Street doctor who sued a patient for not paying his bill, the Rainford sister-in-law defamation case, the start of Newton Races and how the courtroom biter ended up being bitten.
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Elephant Lane summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th MAY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the shocking account of the mentally-ill man who died through starvation, the warring neighbours of Warrington Road, a complaint by paupers over the food served at Whiston Workhouse, a proposal to make public a list of poverty-stricken people claiming poor relief, the smallpox raging in Elephant Lane and why the new Whiston waterworks was wiping the smile of some cynical folk's faces.
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Duke Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd MAY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the cruel Sutton carter who used a strap and buckle on his daughter, the runaway Rainford apprentices return to face the music, how Whit Monday was marked in St Helens, the Raven Hotel barmaid's fortunate escape, another accident takes place at St Helens railway station, the brutal assault in Rainford and the Kirkland Street pub in St Helens that had no beer but was proving successful.
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Whiston Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th MAY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the giddy and peculiar girl coal thief, the violent imbecile at Whiston Workhouse, the peculiar humour and slandering of a miner at Victoria Colliery in Rainford, the woman pedlar with a portable knife and scissors grinding machine, the Rainhill landlord who couldn't be in two places at once but was still fined and why the merry month of May was proving not to be very merry in St Helens.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th MAY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a review of the annual May Day horse and cart parade, the joiners of St Helens go on strike after their employers denied them an extra halfpenny per hour, the incorrigible Dennis Feigh complains that the price of drunkenness had gone up, the coal miners nude road racing in St Helens, the brainless theft at St Helens railway station by a soft-hearted clerk and the warring women of Cowley Hill.
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Eagle and Child summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th APRIL - 1st MAY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the stormy public meeting that was held in Rainford when the village elected to take charge of its own affairs, the Sutton couple who starved their children are sentenced, the St Helens bigamist who was open about his past, the pragmatic solution to a Sutton marital dispute, the man imprisoned for deserting his wife and children and the appointment of the first deaconess in St Helens.
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St Helens glassworks collieries summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the riotous conduct in Blackbrook's Ship Inn, the disappearance of a St Helens rates collector, the Pilkington glass boss accused of twaddling in a lofty key, the burning down of the new Parr knacker's yard, the Good Fairy of St Helens is performed at the Theatre Royal and the St Helens chemical works are criticised for planning to unite to fight a new health bill that would limit their filthy discharges.
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