St Helens History This Week

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Bringing History to Life from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago!

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.
“Tontine

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th August - 1st Sept. 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the dreadful state of Thatto Heath with poor roads and water supply, the dangerous lunatics in Whiston Workhouse, more neighbours battle it out in Parr, a schoolteacher is forced to quit her job, a concert in aid of the Haydock Explosion Fund, the beerhouse brothel of Water Street, the troublesome Maid of Erin of Tontine Street and a Prescot woman is jailed for shouting in the street.
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“College

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th August 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the sex scandal of a St Helens' vicar, two cheeky College Street robberies, two violent Rainhill rows, a soldier's court martial at St Helens Junction, a farmer sues Sutton Copper Works for damaging his crops, a woman from Peckers Hill throws a bucket of water over her neighbour and local miners demand "parliamentary agitation" to obtain improved inspection and ventilation of coal mines.
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“Griffin

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th August 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a Raglan Street man's violent attack on his wife, a Parr girl's ingratitude to a Good Samaritan, The Times demands new laws to improve mine safety as a result of the Haydock mining disaster, the lads who broke school windows, more wearing apparel thefts, the Fancy Tobacco and Snuffs for sale in Liverpool Road and the little Parr boys who climbed onto the roof of a house to catch pigeons.
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“Peasley

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th August 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a case of furious driving in Peasley Cross Lane, the revenge of the Greenbank women, the scathing inquest verdict on the Haydock mining disaster, the boys who ransacked a Peasley Cross house, a Liverpool hoax with a Rainhill connection, a Parr assault that led to the "most villainous language" in court, how the Rainford district had been filled with swamps and a new church for Ravenhead.
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“Connollys

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th July - 4th August 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the inoffensive man who knocked a woman's teeth out in College Street, the dangerous practice of giving sick kids brandy, an inspection of the Whiston Workhouse school, the aftermath of the Haydock mining disaster, vandalism in Eccleston, an assault on a Parr shopkeeper, Connolly's lottery tickets and the boy described as a complete outlaw who would run along the eaves of a whole street.
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“Lancashire

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th July 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the "owdacious" rag dealer from Liverpool Road, the man who threatened to shoot his neighbour in Pilkingtons Row, a Sutton boy drowns while sailing, more on the devastating Haydock colliery explosion, the almost daily fighting at St Helens railway station, Sutton and Peasley Cross Catholic Schools visit Chester, two fires occur in a single day and the Sunday morning Sutton beer serving.
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“Queen

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st July 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a shocking mining disaster in Haydock that took the lives of 60 men and boys, the runaway apprentice rat catcher, the creeping Parr shop theft, the miserable tramp wards at Whiston Workhouse, the Saturday night punch ups in St Helens, bike maker John Christian offers his expensive machines for sale, Pilkington's annual treat for their boy employees and the low scoring Lowe House batsmen.
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“Alexandra

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th July 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Thatto Heath women who every day walked half a mile with a water can on their heads, the attempted suicide of a lunatic that was blamed on the reading of vicious literature, the fierce Parr Street fight, a Ravenhead colliery tragedy, the woman who denied being struck by her husband in Liverpool Road, how the 12th of July was marked in St Helens and the Sunday morning "jerry wagging".
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“Wigan

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th July 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the prevalence of pocket-picking in St Helens, an allegation of an illegal Eccleston road toll, the Sutton boy taught the "doom of liars", a "pretty team" of cricket cowards from Cowley Hill, the St Helens' master cloggers hold their annual excursion, a "very noisy scene" at Whiston Workhouse, the controversial election of a new Town Clerk for St Helens and an assault with a dolly stick.
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“Rainford

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th June 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the runaway Prescot pony that was startled by a kite, the Hall Street publican's wife who received a black eye from her stepson, the Thatto Heath cart wheel suicide, the 5 bob thrashing in Eccleston Road, an auction of a Rainford blacksmith's effects, a St Helens Junction shooting contest and the nosy women who spent a night watching a house in Bridge Street on the look out for infidelity.
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“Robert

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd June 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a fowl theft in Dentons Green, the brutal beater of his own father at Broad Oak returns to court, the Rainford parish clerk who officiated at 10,000 births, marriages and deaths, there's a fire at a foundry in Eccleston, a lecture on the "evils of strong drink" is delivered at the Ragged School, the mother castigated for not sending her son to church and the woman afraid of being bitten.
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