150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th NOVEMBER 1869)
This week's stories include the murder of a St Helens milkman, the abomination of boys working long hours down coal mines, a claim of attempted rape in Thatto Heath, the disgraceful state of Warrington New Road, the tramp who stole a pair of trousers in Sutton Heath, the perils of a bus journey from Prescot to St Helens and the miraculous escapes of workmen at a Ravenhead pottery works when a boiler explodes.