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.
Holy Cross church summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the pitiful story of ill-usage by the wife-beating landlord of the Glassmakers Arms, the sibling violence in Peasley Cross in which a man was threatened with a rifle, a Rainhill bigamist is brought to book, the Women's Rights Movement comes to St Helens, the campaign against the expensive new town hall begins in Peasley Cross and the one-armed beggar that was made to pay his own fare to prison.
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Pilkington works St Helens summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the extraordinary death of a patient at Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum, the man who was accused of being a knobstick at Pilkington's glassworks, the bleeding horse that was beaten by its owner because it couldn't haul bricks up Croppers Hill, the Pilks boys that were stealing lead off the glasshouse roof and the troublesome soldier at the bottleworks that punched a policeman on the nose.
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Ballot Act 1872 St Helens summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the first St Helens election featuring the secret vote, the Lowe House Church tea party and ball, the reopening of St Helens Library, the dirty mains water at Greenbank, concern that the new Town Hall would be built by an outside firm, the man charged with leaving a wagon overnight in Brook Street and the domino playing in a Rainford beerhouse that led to a man being kicked in the jaw.
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Knowsley Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st OCT. - 6th NOV. 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the novelty of voting in secret elections in St Helens, the casual attitude to explosive gas down a coal mine, the fireworks lit in a Newton court, tenders for the building of the new St Helens town hall are received, the most impudent robbery of jewellery takes place at Knowsley Hall, the assault on a policeman's whiskers in Market Street and the exceedingly long lives in Greenbank.
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James Radley summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the debate over an illuminated church clock, the curious Water Street break-in by an undressed man, the notorious Bridget Kildare appears in court, the scandalous language used in Watery Lane that led to a head-butt, the boy setting off fireworks in Liverpool Road that got himself on fire and why publicans moaning about their lost pre-breakfast drinking trade was the acme of nonsense.
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Junction Hotel summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the pub landlord's attack on the Rainford Junction stationmaster, the Bold prosecution for quitting a job on a farm without giving notice, the man accused of being the most unmitigated scamp and blackguard in Sutton, there's criticism of the disgraceful state of the pavement near Shaw Street station and the drunk arrested in Liverpool Road that resisted in the most furious manner.
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Citadel summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the dead baby that was discovered dumped in St Anne's churchyard in Sutton, the gas explosion at Sutton Heath Colliery that severely burned a miner, the strike at the newly opened railway Sheeting Sheds in Sutton, the reopening of the refurbished Theatre Royal and the revamped St Helens Junction rifle range that was designed to prevent stray bullets from posing a danger to the public.
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Rainhill Asylum

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th OCTOBER 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Japanese ambassadors that paid a visit to St Helens to inspect Sutton Glassworks, the mismanagement of the Sutton Alkali Co-operative Society, the woman that died from pipe smoking, the Rainford man's exhausting experience in a brook, the drunk killed on the railway line at Garswood, the Rainford pipemaker's strike is settled and Rainhill Hospital advertises for a musical tailor.
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Sutton Oak station summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th SEPT. - 2nd OCT. 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a cowardly assault on a watchmaker near the Stanley Arms at Gillars Green, the controversial closing of St Helens and Prescot pubs at 11pm until 7am, the St Helens woman who was still going strong at the age of 101, the brainless wages theft by a platelayer at Sutton Oak Station, the unjust weights in the old Baldwin Street workhouse and the College Street woman's mysterious death in Baxters Lane.
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Garswood Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th SEPTEMBER 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the remarkable funeral procession of William Pilkington, a wantonly cruel Parr wife beater appears in court, the inspection of reformatory schools at Blackbrook and Newton, the Sutton woman charged with driving cows that were afflicted with foot and mouth disease, the coming of age celebrations in Garswood and the Eccleston man who declared that he intended to cut somebody's ears off.
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St Helens glassworks summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th SEPTEMBER 1872)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the destructive fire at the Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum, the death of William Pilkington Snr, the mayor of Tokyo visits St Helens, an analysis of the immense number of drinking houses in the town, the woman who said she could live hundreds of thousands of years besides decent neighbours and criticism of the Corporation Fire Brigade for soaking shop fronts while practising.
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