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.
Rainford old church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th JUNE 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the cricket match played at Dentons Green in aid of striking glassmakers, the Ashton surplice riots are brought to an end, the Hardshaw Street doctor that failed to licence his horse and carriage, the spoof steam and lightning machine that was supposedly at Rainford Church and criticism of the directors of the St Helens Gas Company for enjoying themselves in London at public expense.
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Clarence burning summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st JUNE 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the bizarre anti-surplice riots in Ashton-in-Makerfield, the St Helens man who refused to pay his son's keep on a reformatory ship, the pigeon shop in Tontine Street which bought a stolen bird, a midnight stabbing takes place on Bold Street, the wretched-looking woman who faced a charge of stealing half sovereigns in Pocket Nook and the man that took indecent liberties in Bold Street.
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Carr Mill Dam summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th JUNE 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Sutton miner who committed bigamy because his wife made him unhappy, how the recent Whit Monday holiday had been marked by St Helens' folk, a miniature yacht race takes place on Carr Mill Dam, the Pilkington strikers denounce suggestions of coercion, how Charles Dickens' death was reported in the St Helens Newspaper and the two 13-year-old girls who stole for their mothers.
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Belle Vue summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th JUNE 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Liverpool Road miner who got his sweethearts in the family way, the man accused in the "Prescot scandal" comes to court, an "abominable" crime with a donkey is suspected at Eccleston, a charge of indecent skinny dipping in a Sutton lake, an update on the Pilkington glass strike and a "what's on" guide to the Whit Monday amusements for those being given a rare day off from work.
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Crab Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st MAY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the start of the "abominable" Prescot sex scandal involving two men, a large American circus and menagerie performs in St Helens, the squabbling neighbours of Peckers Hill Road, the St Helens Harmonic Society's hot concert in the Town Hall, a rapid writing course is held in Church Street, the family "shindy" that took place in Sutton and a campaign is launched to preserve Thatto Heath.
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Whiston Workhouse

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th MAY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a claim of attempted rape in Bold Park, the former workhouse master who claimed persecution, the Visiting Commissioner in Lunacy carries out an inspection of Whiston Workhouse, a woman with two terrible black eyes accuses her husband of beating her, there's short measure at the Lamb Inn and the poor woman arrested for sleeping rough in the grounds of a Prescot mansion.
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Sandfield Crescent St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th MAY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the performing bears in St Helens, the runaway horse in Liverpool Road, a brutal assault takes place on a Whiston wife, the widening of Ormskirk Street, the St Helens train that hit a horse, a Prescot publican is charged with harbouring a policeman, the bullyragged woman from Sandfield Crescent and the "idle, drunken and disorderly" woman charged with sleeping in the open air at Windle.
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Gas works St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th MAY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Parr woman violently assaulted by her husband, a succession of accidents take place at Farnworth, the woman who was removed from the court dock howling terribly and tearing her bonnet, the Worshippers of the Rosy God appear in court, the gruesome case of the wandering cow, Greenalls annual dinner for their tenants at the Fleece and why St Helens folk were worked up over gas.
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Pilkington Glass St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th APRIL - 3rd MAY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the freaks of nature at the St Helens Fair, an update on the Pilkington glassblowers' strike, the Rainford miner's family that were in complete destitution, the annual May Day horse and cart parade in St Helens, the Rainhill drunk who thought Yorkshire was another country and the fearfully cold man who was in a police cell because he had found a fork and spoon on an Eccleston road.
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Old St Helens Town Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th APRIL 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drunken cook in Whiston Workhouse, an update on the Pilkington glass strike, the deadly joke that was played on a female tramp at Haydock, an arson attack on land at Eccleston, the lodgers in the old Baldwin Street workhouse, another wandering cow story, the annual distribution of the Windle Dole and the man who blamed being "beerified" for thieving from Rainford's Bridge Inn.
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Prescot Parish Church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th APRIL 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
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.
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