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.
Stanhope Street summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the thieving St Helens postman from Stanhope Street, hopes rise that the town's serious water shortage might be ameliorated, there's a rum do on Sutton Mill Dam, a huge fire takes place at a printing works in Newton-le-Willows, a choral concert in Newton and the young man from Rigby Street involved in shunting a railway waggon at St Helens railway station who died after breaking a leg.
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Posters summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th MARCH - 4th APRIL 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the high level of expenditure and drinking of porter in Rainhill Asylum, a most brutal assault on a Parr beerhouse keeper, the St Helens mayor sues the St Helens Standard newspaper for libel, the 1871 census is taken, the canine lockdown to prevent rabies, the Theatre Royal is in desperate need of some turns and the violent Haydock mother-in-law who used a poker on her daughter-in-law.
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Tontine Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th MARCH 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the notorious character's attempt to strangle a policeman in Sutton, the Eccleston woman who said she stole a shawl as a joke, the St Helens parliamentary petitions to ban Sunday drinking, the violent Parr assault by three lads, the revival of the deadly chemical works in St Helens and it’s the end of the road for Laffak Colliery with the planned auctioning off of all its buildings and equipment.
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Elephant Lane summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the carter who came to grief in Thatto Heath, the iron foundry's stay-away apprentice, the earthquake felt in St Helens that led to some residents fearing a burglary, the heartless husband from Peter Street who would not help his burning wife, the Grand Miscellaneous Concert at Sutton National School and the Ashton man who appeared to have killed his wife but could not be prosecuted.
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Whiston Workhouse women

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the retirement of the outspoken and controversial guardian of Whiston Workhouse, plans are announced to enlarge the workhouse, there's more news of the smallpox epidemic, the Cheap Jack salesman who was accused of working too late in Ormskirk Street, a distressing description of the ravages of rabies and a tough penalty is imposed on a man for ill-treating a horse in Rainford.
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Hardshaw Street summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Parr mother of six who wanted a separation from her cruel husband, the violent row between neighbours in Glover Street, the dispute over the cost of a funeral, the wife of a Peasley Cross landlord who objected to being blackguarded in St Helens market, the man arrested at St Helens railway station for suspiciously wearing an army uniform and the man who had his ferrets confiscated.
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Liverpool Road summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th FEBRUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include St Helens Fire Brigade's unstate-of-the art handcart and hose, the new urinals planned for the town, the vaccination defaulters threatened with prosecution, the Prescot ghost that could walk abroad along the roofs of houses, the gentleman that rode his horse on a Newton footpath and the Eccleston woman prosecuted after being chased from her home by her husband carrying a poker.
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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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