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.
Liverpool Inn summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st AUG. - 6th SEPT. 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the wife beater from Parr, the revenge window smashing at the Liverpool Inn, the Eccleston foundry that was fined for illegally working a "great lump of a lad", the man ordered to contribute towards the support of his lunatic wife, the Parr beerhouse keeper who got out of a charge of selling ale on a Sunday morning, the Eccleston licensee who was on a 36-year-trial and there's another complaint about the purloining of Thatto Heath.
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Volunteer Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th AUGUST 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an experiment to cure the evils of Sankey Brook, the prevalence of foot and mouth in Eccleston, the middle-aged woman of "wretched aspect" charged with begging, the black man of Moss Nook who fell asleep driving a carriage, the Earlestown women who fought by dragging hair, the Irish diorama at the Volunteer Hall and the man who used a stone to bash his son in front of the Parr police.
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Boundary Road summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd AUGUST 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Boundary Lane mob that turned on a Pilkington strike-breaker, a shocking explosion takes place at a Bryn coalmine, the Eccleston Church School Treat, the drunken men that knocked people off the footpath in Church Street, the man who turned up drunk to court and the church minister at a Town Hall temperance meeting who thought St Helens was one of the least saintly towns.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th AUGUST 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the difficulties for firemen in tackling a blaze on a Bold farm, boys cause a gas explosion at a Church Street tailor's shop, a farm dispute at Rainhill leads to a court case, the taxman who died after having ate a hearty breakfast, there are signs that the Pilkington glass strike could be coming to an end and the man who ran a house of ill repute in Westfield Street returns to court.
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Eagle and Child summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th AUGUST 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the drunken soldier who was armed with a bayonet and rifle in Church Street, a fracas takes place at the Eagle and Child in Rainford, criticism of the disgraceful state of St Thomas' churchyard, the drought afflicting St Helens during the summer, the man who assaulted his stepmother at the Knoggs pub in Eccleston and the curious case of the policeman and the injured cucumbers.
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Newton Races summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th JULY - 2nd AUGUST 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the naked road races in Eccleston, the child beggar of Croppers Hill, Peasley Cross Colliery Cricket Club's low scoring batsmen, the privy nuisances in Pocket Nook and Parr Street, the Irish woman who said she would rather be in poverty in St Helens than in Ireland, the parents who were ordered by a Prescot court to flog their child and the recidivist offender Thomas Fay returns to court.
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Knowsley Hall summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Church Street dentist's that also served as a confectioners, Lord and Lady Derby's fawning reception at Knowsley, the Pilkington glassmakers explain why their 3-month-long strike has to continue, the almost unbearable hot weather in St Helens, the Parr woman accused of "moistening her clay" and the Commissioners of Lunacy report on their inspection of Rainhill County Asylum.
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Roughdales summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the mysterious flight of the Prescot businessman charged with an unnatural offence, a police raid on bare-knuckle prize-fighting takes place in Clock Face, the women pugilists of Greenbank, there's trouble between the ladies of Moss Nook, a heroic rescue of two boys from a deep clay pit in Marshalls Cross and why they were holding celebrations at Lea Green over a little railway line.
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Gerard Arms summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th JULY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an abominable sentence for an abominable crime at Eccleston, concern over a lack of water in Parr, why women were considered the best attraction at the Prescot Horticultural Society's annual exhibition, there's road rage in Eccleston, a theft by an ungrateful man in the Gerard Arms and a woman is seriously injured at Rainhill Railway station while attempting to get out of a moving train.
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Union Plate Glassworks summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th JUNE - 5th JULY 1870)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the amateur pedestrian accused of exposing his person in North Road, a miner is fatally injured at St Helens Station, the potato engine nuisance in Bridge Street and Hall Street, the fence damage at the Dog and Rabbit raceground in Parr, the penny grass damage in Ravenhead and the employees of the Union Plate Glass Works in Pocket Nook take their annual pleasure excursion to Windermere.
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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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