150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th JULY 1871)
This week's stories include the shocking insanitary state of Rainford, the high price of getting a divorce, the incorrigible character Catherine Dunn returns to court, a claim that the new Grace's Square in Sutton was being illegally built, the Moss Bank man in a precarious state, the females fighting in Parr, the insulting lads outside the Nag's Head and the heavy fines for Rainford miners who had quit their jobs.