150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th APRIL 1870)
This week's stories include the "obnoxious individual" mobbed by a crowd of angry women outside St Helens courthouse, the drunken row of the two Prescot carters, the opening of Victoria Pleasure Gardens in Thatto Heath, the start of a long strike at Pilkingtons over a cut in wages, the St Helens solicitor's clerk who did a runner with his boss's cash and the controversial issue of a Sunday offertory at Prescot Church.