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.
Whiston infirmary summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the drunken cooks at Whiston Workhouse, the leaking fever sheds at Whiston, the officer appointed to deal with vaccination defaulters, the persecuted German Catholics whose emigrant train struck a goods train, the death of a Rainford platelayer, the Newton Bowling Club hold a dinner, the Vicar of St Thomas Church complains that the poor are ungrateful to the rich and the discussion over whether St Peter's in Parr should pay for the flagging of the street.
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Chicago fire summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Church hearing into a St Helens vicar accused of indecently assaulting a child, the father and son who died together down Peasley Cross Colliery, a murderous assault on a man in Eccleston, the serio-comics and black minstrel entertainers at the Theatre Royal, the Newton reformatory thief, the captain who dumped his boat in St Helens and a vivid account of the Great Chicago Fire.
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Station rails summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the two thousand St Helens children that never attended school, a man is run over while walking along the railway line at Sutton Oak, the unfriendly man who cheated the Prescot friendly society, the Haydock Park farm sale, improvements are planned for the approaches to St Helens Station and the anti-vaccinator from Preston who fought against the compulsory vaccination of his child.
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St Peters church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th SEPT. - 3rd OCT. 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the sacrilegious burglary at St Peter's Church in Parr, anger is expressed at a St Helens Water Committee meeting when members are told of major problems in the boring of their new Whiston well, a memorial stone is laid for a new Congregational Church Sunday school at Peasley Cross and the squabbling women of Blackbrook accused of saying the most abusive and filthy epithets!
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Wanless illustration summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th SEPTEMBER 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 12-year-old boy who cheated a Rainford widow out of her compensation payments, the shenanigans in a Warrington Road beerhouse that prevented the transfer of its licence, the drunken brute who was staying in Sutton Oak who shot his wife dead on a train and then killed himself and the shocking story of the man at Aspull, near Wigan, who instructed his bulldog to attack his wife.
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St Helens Foundry summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th SEPTEMBER 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the sudden death of a former Greenall brewery boss at Crank railway station, the boys accused of the Newton works dinner theft, delays to the opening of the new St Helens to Huyton railway line, there is concern over rabies outbreaks in the district, the Rainford and Bickerstaffe Floral, Horticultural & Agricultural Show and the St Helens apprentices that found themselves in trouble with their boss.
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Donkeys summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th SEPTEMBER 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the land that was bought to build a new St Helens Town Hall, the Ashton-in-Makerfield gold watch trick, the uninteresting county court cases, a shocking mining explosion takes place, the St Helens butchers in court, the Bridge Street plumber who came to a sticky end in his own ashpit, the ragged little boys who wanted to go to school and the disorderly donkeys on New Brighton beach.
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Citadel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th AUG. - 5th SEPT. 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a three-year-old child's miraculous escape after being run over by a Doulton pottery cart, the long history of bowling in St Helens, the illegal playing of pitch and toss in Haydock, the turnip thieving in Ashton-in-Makerfield, a Sunday school field day in St Helens, the turns performing at the Theatre Royal in Milk Streets and how there was a pub in St Helens for every 120 adults.
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Kirkland Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th AUGUST 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the burglary of a tailor's shop in Kirkland Street, a swimming tragedy in Sutton Glassworks' reservoir despite a valiant attempt at rescue by a policeman, the man accused of exposing himself to a married woman, the fighting men of Haydock, Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows, the agitation for more pay in the coal mines and why long-winded lovers' letters could now be mailed more cheaply.
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Rainford Colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd AUGUST 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the mild penalty imposed on two women after committing a savage clogs assault, the head of Prescot police claims that on Sundays youths were turning the streets of his town into a pandemonium, a card sharper is caught at Newton Fair, the man who beat the Rainford Colliery Co. at its own game and the woman in the County Court whose debts were wiped out after getting married.
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St Helens County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th AUGUST 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the curious drowning of a child in a Lea Green pit, a harsh prison sentence is imposed on the thieving Sutton postie, a Rainford man's murderous assault on a friend with a poker, the workhouse cook's dodgy meals are under scrutiny, an accusation of illegal gambling is made against a police officer in Smithy Brow and the outspoken lawyer Thomas Swift finally has his wings clipped.
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