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.
Elephant Lane summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st MARCH 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the carter who came to grief in Thatto Heath, the iron foundry's stay-away apprentice, the earthquake felt in St Helens that led to some residents fearing a burglary, the heartless husband from Peter Street who would not help his burning wife, the Grand Miscellaneous Concert at Sutton National School and the Ashton man who appeared to have killed his wife but could not be prosecuted.
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Whiston Workhouse women

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th MARCH 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the retirement of the outspoken and controversial guardian of Whiston Workhouse, plans are announced to enlarge the workhouse, there's more news of the smallpox epidemic, the Cheap Jack salesman who was accused of working too late in Ormskirk Street, a distressing description of the ravages of rabies and a tough penalty is imposed on a man for ill-treating a horse in Rainford.
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Hardshaw Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th MARCH 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Parr mother of six who wanted a separation from her cruel husband, the violent row between neighbours in Glover Street, the dispute over the cost of a funeral, the wife of a Peasley Cross landlord who objected to being blackguarded in St Helens market, the man arrested at St Helens railway station for suspiciously wearing an army uniform and the man who had his ferrets confiscated.
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Liverpool Road summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th FEBRUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include St Helens Fire Brigade's unstate-of-the art handcart and hose, the new urinals planned for the town, the vaccination defaulters threatened with prosecution, the Prescot ghost that could walk abroad along the roofs of houses, the gentleman that rode his horse on a Newton footpath and the Eccleston woman prosecuted after being chased from her home by her husband carrying a poker.
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County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st FEBRUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the St Helens Catholic Charity Ball attended by the most respectable families, the mockery of the Chinese hawker who was described as the colour of spent tea, the five children dumped in Whiston Workhouse by their emigrating parents, the heavy snow-storm in St Helens, the drunken barge captain who drowned in St Helens Canal and the great looby accused of being afraid of an old woman.
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Dromgooles summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th FEBRUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the stiff sentences for the boys larking about in Peasley Cross, the man called Judas charged with being drunk in Bridge Street, the abominable Marshalls Cross maintenance case, the Valentine's Day cards available to buy in St Helens, the Water Street beerhouse keeper unconscious of cheating his customers and when a sentence of hard labour meant walking the treadmill at Kirkdale Gaol.
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Citadel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th FEBRUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the great fire of Church Street, the troublesome St Helens beggars, the Peasley Cross grocer warned about giving credit to women, the man charged with absconding from a workhouse and stealing clothes, a warning about Old Moore's Almanack hawkers, the burly looking navvy begging in Liverpool Road, the Theatre Royal punch-up and the bookhawker who learnt a harsh lesson in Barrow Street.
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Eagle and Child summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st JANUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include plans to vaccinate the poor against the spread of smallpox, the annual dinner for the old folk of Rainford takes place, the desperate woman who stole coal from a railway wagon at Peasley Cross, the sale of two old workhouses, the man accused of cruelly beating his horse in Raven Street, the family quarrel near Liverpool Street and the right old barney between two women in Parr.
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Liverpool Street St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th JANUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 47th LRV's glittering ball in the Volunteer Hall, the drunken tramp in Liverpool Street, the night soil man in Rainford, the quarryman who drowned after slipping into a pond in Whiston, a shocking train accident involving a pregnant woman at St Helens Junction station, the many compensation claims against Sutton Copper Works and the body that had been in St Helens Canal for a month.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th JANUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Bridge Street beggar's hard luck story, the man sent to prison for tearing his trousers, the Parish Church's annual tea party, the dispute between the auctioneer and the butcher, the Singer sewing machines in St Helens, the man who behaved almost like a madman in Berrys Lane, a series of coal mining accidents and the Parr landlord's silly sister who landed her brother in court!
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Parr Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th JANUARY 1871)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the annual dinner for the aged poor of Parr, the hen-pecked bigamist returns to court, a dreadful mining accident takes place in Ashton-in-Makerfield, the man who set fire to his trousers and died after lighting his pipe, the quack treatments advertised within the St Helens Standard and the boy sent to prison for begging in Waterloo Street who was the son of a notorious character.
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