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.
Ashtons Green summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th APRIL 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the shocking state of the paupers hospital attached to Whiston workhouse, the death of a mine worker who was sinking a new shaft at Ashtons Green Colliery, the daily attacks on passers-by near Greenbank in St Helens, the boy imprisoned for stealing just five pence from a pub in Raven Street and the woman who claimed infancy as she was under 21 to get out of paying a debt.
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Whiston infirmary summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd APRIL 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the respectable Thatto Heath vagrant who was discovered sleeping in a cowshed, the corrupt practices at an election for the Prescot Guardians, the post office fraud by mistake that led to two months imprisonment, the severe beating of a wife for simply having a drink, the brainless Rainford pigeon thefts and the opening of the picturesque Victoria Pleasure Gardens in Thatto Heath.
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Alexandra Colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th APRIL 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include an update on the new St Helens Cottage Hospital, the deranged sexton employed at St Helens Cemetery, the rigged school examinations scandal, the Alexandra Colliery miners that left their work to go on a bender, the boys' bullseye lamp thieving from a Duke Street shop, the Haydock hair pulling squabble and the St Helens Newspaper writes about the contemptible henpecked husbands.
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Citadel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th APRIL 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Claughton Street man who set his dog on troublesome youths, St Helens coal miners give notice to their masters that they want more pay, the dispute over rabbit racing in Merton Bank, the coincidence that uncovered a blind man's scam and the St Helens Newspaper emphasises the importance of the appointment of the right candidate for St Helens' first medical officer of health.
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Rosbothams School St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th MARCH - 2nd APRIL 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the young boys that were illegally employed at a Liverpool Street bottle works, the poor safety practices at a St Helens copper works that led to a worker's death, the elderly family that were said to like their grog, the man fatally injured at St Helens Goods Station, the annual inspection of St Helens police force and the manure salesman's cheeky frauds on several Rainford and Eccleston farmers.
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Kurtz Alkali St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th MARCH 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the bricklayers and tailors of St Helens' demands for more pay, the entertainer that was known as the Great Vance performs at the Volunteer Hall in St Helens, the apprentice at the St Helens Newspaper that walked out because of excessive working hours, the Cuban slaves that were up for sale in Havana and St Thomas National School gets a glowing report from the 1870s version of Ofsted.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th MARCH 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the poker battle between neighbours in Parr, a fierce attack on longwinded councillors, the appointment of a much-needed Medical Officer of Health for St Helens, the unlicensed gun in Rainford, the feckless Feigh family's harsh punishment and why the government inspector of chemical works in St Helens could do little to prevent shrubs at the Borough Cemetery from turning black.
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Roger Tichborne summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th MARCH 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fraud in a Duke Street fish shop by men claiming to be inspectors of weights and measures, the miner fatally crushed down Peasley Cross Colliery, a call for something to be done to abate discharges from St Helens chemical factories, the Sunday shindy in Parr involving a mixed-sex fight and the man at the centre of the most amazing story of Victorian times arrives in St Helens.
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Moss Bank, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th FEB. - 5th MARCH 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the lunatic that was dangerously at large on the railway line at Moss Bank, some shocking St Helens death statistics, the Sutton sweeping brush squabble between two neighbours, the sending of a disgusting Valentines card, the horse that died after backing into a pit at Cowley Hill, the gold ring scam in Raglan Street and the gang of young roughs causing trouble at the Theatre Royal.
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Dromgooles, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th FEBRUARY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the big increase in the sending of Valentine cards in St Helens and Liverpool, the pitiful woman who was sent to prison for a month for attempting a sixpenny fraud, Pilks' annual soirée in the Volunteer Hall, the depressed man found floating in the canal, the St Helens mayor is slated by the Newspaper and the Pilkingtons bonus scheme for its management staff – but not for its workers.
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Raglan Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th FEBRUARY 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the attempted rape in Sutton as a Peckers Hill Road woman walked to a shop, the Fleet Lane fight over a debt to a beerhouse owner for food and drink, the little girls' theft of old clothes and clogs from a house in Eccleston, the wearing apparel thefts off a Parr clothes-line and a child is killed by shunting wagons while stealing coal from Gamble's chemical works in Gerards Bridge.
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