150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th SEPTEMBER 1870)
This week's stories include the Pilkington glass striker who tried to throw a strike-breaker off a bridge in Westfield Street, the man who thought the dead were burying the dead in St Helens, the raving mad horse with rabies, the St Helens telegraphic genius that found himself in trouble in Tipton, the man fined for singing in the streets of St Helens and the formation of a new temperance movement in the town.