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.
Waterdale House summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th JULY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the opening of the new St Helens Railway Station, a serious horse attack at the Stork Inn in Billinge, the second St Helens Cricket Club's athletics festival in Dentons Green, two accidents with horse-drawn vehicles occur in St Helens, the controversial compulsory smallpox vaccination and the man accused of threatening a neighbour who claimed he was only talking to his tobacco.
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Alexandra Colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th JULY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a sad suicide in St Helens Canal, the Rainhill man who said he was utterly unconscious of a Prescot dog ban, the decision is taken to build a new St Helens Town Hall, an alarming railway accident takes place at Rainford, the man given seven years in prison for stealing a meat pie and the miner with safety concerns charged with leaving his job at Alexandra Colliery without giving notice.
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Poor Law Gazette summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th JUNE - 4th JULY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the wife deserter in America with a conscience, the St Helens man who missed his train and became drunk and riotous in Ormskirk, St Helens Petty Sessions hears of a most disgraceful and abominable assault on a wife, the harsh treatment of miners at Ashton, smallpox rears its ugly head in the district and the tramp who bedded himself inside a pig sty after turning out the pigs.
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Whiston Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th JUNE 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the brutal wife-beater who received his comeuppance, the violent Looney family of Smithy Brow, the tardy Whiston Workhouse pauper who was sent to prison, a severe storm hits the district, the death of a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, a knife attack outside a pub in Canal Street, the apprentice prosecuted for not going to work and the diseased pig carcass in Warrington Road.
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Newton Races summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th JUNE 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the man accused of burning down St Helens Town Hall, the boys who were ordered to be soundly whipped for throwing stones, the end of tolls on the road between St Helens and Liverpool, a claim that the town of Prescot was dying, the Haydock Mission School treat, Newton Races takes place and the scary mask dispute in Ormskirk Street in St Helens between a doctor and a carriage maker.
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Engineer Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th JUNE 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the 13-year-old girl from College Street sent to prison for stealing from Pilkingtons, the unwanted kissing of women on the streets of Prescot, a double family tragedy underground at Pewfall Colliery, the outspoken solicitor Thomas Swift is sued for criminal slander, the new St Helens pubs that contained no beer and the campaign to introduce decimalisation and the metric system.
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Newton Races summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st MAY - 6th JUNE 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include reflections on the first bank holiday that had been held in St Helens, the wandering cows of Ashton-in-Makerfield, the illegal furniture remover from North Road, the posh villas that were for rent at St Ann's in Eccleston, Greenbank Tannery is put up for sale, the extraordinary suicide of a Rainford girl and the weak punishment on three circus lads after savagely assaulting a policeman.
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La Semaine Sanglante

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th MAY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Thatto Heath pigeon flying match that caused an obstruction, the twin deaths at Bickershaw Colliery that underlined the need for a tally system, the policeman accused of committing an assault at an Earlestown theatre, the dispute between the Newton-le-Willows toll collector and the vegetable hawker and The Times provides a graphic description of the burning of Paris.
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Prize Fight summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd MAY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an update on the severe fire that destroyed much of St Helens Town Hall, the College Street man who struck his father-in-law over the head with a poker, the Billinge child poisoning case, the story of Flash Harry the Newton-le-Willows horse thief, the Sutton woman who was mowed down by a train at Peasley Cross station and the dilemma of who should pay for the Prescot butcher's meat.
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Mary Girling summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th MAY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an update on the men who were accused of ravishing two middle-aged women in Parr, solicitor Thomas Swift causes more mayhem in court, Greenall's sumptuous rent day dinner for their landlords at the Fleece in Church Street, the comic music hall singer called The Great Vance performs in Newton-le-Willows and the curious kissing cult of Mrs Girling who wanted to rule the world!
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Old St Helens Town Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th MAY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the disastrous fire at St Helens Town Hall, the inquiry into abuses in the Prescot watchmaking industry releases a critical report, two men are accused of raping women in Parr, the Bold Heath race between a bicycle and two pedestrians, the attendants at Rainhill Asylum that had to play a musical instrument and the Earlestown row in a butcher's shop over a sheep's head with no brains.
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