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.
County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st FEBRUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the St Helens Catholic Charity Ball attended by the most respectable families, the mockery of the Chinese hawker who was described as the colour of spent tea, the five children dumped in Whiston Workhouse by their emigrating parents, the heavy snow-storm in St Helens, the drunken barge captain who drowned in St Helens Canal and the great looby accused of being afraid of an old woman.
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Dromgooles summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th FEBRUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the stiff sentences for the boys larking about in Peasley Cross, the man called Judas charged with being drunk in Bridge Street, the abominable Marshalls Cross maintenance case, the Valentine's Day cards available to buy in St Helens, the Water Street beerhouse keeper unconscious of cheating his customers and when a sentence of hard labour meant walking the treadmill at Kirkdale Gaol.
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Citadel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th FEBRUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the great fire of Church Street, the troublesome St Helens beggars, the Peasley Cross grocer warned about giving credit to women, the man charged with absconding from a workhouse and stealing clothes, a warning about Old Moore's Almanack hawkers, the burly looking navvy begging in Liverpool Road, the Theatre Royal punch-up and the bookhawker who learnt a harsh lesson in Barrow Street.
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Eagle and Child summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st JANUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include plans to vaccinate the poor against the spread of smallpox, the annual dinner for the old folk of Rainford takes place, the desperate woman who stole coal from a railway wagon at Peasley Cross, the sale of two old workhouses, the man accused of cruelly beating his horse in Raven Street, the family quarrel near Liverpool Street and the right old barney between two women in Parr.
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Liverpool Street St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th JANUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 47th LRV's glittering ball in the Volunteer Hall, the drunken tramp in Liverpool Street, the night soil man in Rainford, the quarryman who drowned after slipping into a pond in Whiston, a shocking train accident involving a pregnant woman at St Helens Junction station, the many compensation claims against Sutton Copper Works and the body that had been in St Helens Canal for a month.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th JANUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Bridge Street beggar's hard luck story, the man sent to prison for tearing his trousers, the Parish Church's annual tea party, the dispute between the auctioneer and the butcher, the Singer sewing machines in St Helens, the man who behaved almost like a madman in Berrys Lane, a series of coal mining accidents and the Parr landlord's silly sister who landed her brother in court!
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Parr Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th JANUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the annual dinner for the aged poor of Parr, the hen-pecked bigamist returns to court, a dreadful mining accident takes place in Ashton-in-Makerfield, the man who set fire to his trousers and died after lighting his pipe, the quack treatments advertised within the St Helens Standard and the boy sent to prison for begging in Waterloo Street who was the son of a notorious character.
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Engineer Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th DEC. 1870 - 3rd JAN.1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the "greatest novelties in negro minstrelsy" at the Volunteer Hall, criticism over the lack of an illuminated public clock, the mayor's annual Christmas dinner for the aged poor, the Sutton man sent to prison for stealing pigeons, an argument over whether Brook Street was a highway and a major inquiry by Truck Commissioners is held into malpractice in the Prescot watch industry.
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Carr Mill Dam summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th DECEMBER 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Christmas produce on display in St Helens, the greatest brute in all Prescot is brought to court, the Christmas skaters enjoying themselves on Carr Mill Dam and on Eccleston Mere, why the St Helens Newspaper thought 1870 would be thought the most remarkable year in history and how an Eccleston woman beaten and thrown out of her home by her husband was treated by magistrates.
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Laceys summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th DECEMBER 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an allegation by the St Helens Newspaper of penny pinching at Whiston Workhouse, a magistrate comments on the lack of places to spend a penny in St Helens, the cheating Liverpool Road grocer, the chaotic nature of the railways leads to a train crash in Peasley Cross, the annual 4-day Christmas shoot at St Helens Junction, the Cowley boys "reunion" and the workhouse prepares for Christmas.
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Tontine Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th DECEMBER 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the horse rug that was allegedly stolen in Moss Bank by a Peasley Cross grocer, the strange Parr Street drunkenness dispute between a solicitor and the police, the riderless horse in Eccleston, the recidivist offender stupidly drunk in Tontine Street, a famous Irish poet gives a series of readings at St Helens Town Hall and the drunken man who would turn himself in at the police station.
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