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.
Gas works summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th MARCH 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the charge of Sunday desecration and pandemonium in Greenbank, a new knacker's yard opens in Parr, the expensive drunken freak in the Globe Hotel, the smallpox mix-up at Whiston Workhouse, the St Patrick's Day row in Bold Street, a fatal accident occurs at St Helens Gas Works, Foottit's Circus comes to town and the old man who during his lifetime had charge of 21 kids.
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Kendricks Cross summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th MARCH 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a savage clogs assault in Park Road, the Rainhill father who a magistrate called wicked, the window-breaking lodger of Parr, the 4-year-old girl performing at the Theatre Royal, the two neighbours that lived in a state of chronic war, the police swoop on a Water Street temperance hotel and the Rainford tobacco pipemakers strike comes to an end – but it’s a hollow victory for the men.
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Whiston Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th MARCH 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Rainhill apprentice who was badly beaten by his boss because his work was not up to scratch, the blackface troupe performing at the Volunteer Hall, the dominoes dispute in a Croppers Hill beerhouse that led to the knocking out of teeth, the Whiston boy accused of using abominable language and the pauper who did not want to work in Whiston Workhouse in court accused of tearing up his clothes.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th FEB. - 6th MARCH 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the inquest hearing into the Pocket Nook boiler blast that took the lives of four men, the lazy, dissolute vagabond who jumped from the frying pan into the fire, the wife-beating Rainford wheelwright, the toddler that died while playing with matches in Mill Street, the gun outrage committed on Queen Victoria and the Sunday morning police stake out on a Liverpool Street beerhouse.
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Glassworks summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st- 27th FEBRUARY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the deadly boiler explosion in a St Helens chemical works, the fire that raged all night on a Sutton Heath farm, a condemnation of the St Helens Borough Fire Brigade, the black artists and serio-comics that were performing at the Theatre Royal, the 10-year-old Prescot girl who was sent to prison for stealing and the Pilkington apprentice who prosecuted his foreman for boxing his ears.
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Griffin Inn summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th FEBRUARY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Valentine's Day cards on sale in St Helens, the Warrington Road beerhouse scandal, the eleven-year-old boy that was sent to prison, the pipe-smoking boys of College Street, the meeting of the new St Helens Hare & Hounds Club, the Pilkington apprentice from Kirkland Street accused of deliberately damaging glass and the stubborn cow that refused to leave a Prescot pub.
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Citadel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th FEBRUARY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an update on the shocking case of near-starvation of two children, the explosion at Peasley Cross Colliery, the zig-zagging drunk who walked into the St Helens Canal, the shindy in a St Helens chemical works, the leading citizens of St Ann's who petitioned against a chemical works, the mayor's lack of robes for official events and the grotesque black entertainers at the Theatre Royal.
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Parr Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st JAN. - 6th FEB. 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Atlas Street man who was sent to prison for neglecting his family, the unbreakable qualities of a St Helens-made watch that was run over by a train, a comic squabble between women over smashed glass, the St Helens Catholic Charity Ball, the brainless trick that was played on the landlord of the Lamb Hotel and the shocking case of near-starvation of two young Sutton children.
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Wellington summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th JANUARY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the near-mauling by a leopard at Manders' menagerie in St Helens, the shocking boiling death at a Pocket Nook chemical works, the high priced railway fares to Liverpool, the girl who frightened a horse with a shuttlecock in Liverpool Road, the Lowe House tea party for old women and the most inhuman barbarity utterly disgraceful to a civilized people committed by the British in India.
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Dromgooles summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd JANUARY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the scandalous Parr defamation case, the roughs that smashed the windows of the Public Hall in Hardshaw Street, the attempted rape of a sixteen-year-old girl at Eccleston Lane Ends, the extraordinary funeral of a St Helens railway guard, the turns that were performing at the Theatre Royal's New Concert Hall and the ten-year-old nuisance girl from Broad Oak who had water thrown over her.
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Bird in the hand summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th JANUARY 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 10-year-old and 12-year-old children who had never been to school, the smallpox epidemic worsens in St Helens, the strange Rainford pheasant theft, a Prescot wife-beater gets his come-uppance, the artists performing at the Theatre Royal, the violent storm that struck the St Helens district and the St Ann's property owners' campaign against a proposed chemical works in Boundary Road.
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