150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st March 1869)
This week's stories include the dead man in College Street who had a tin cheque, Good Friday in St Helens, a sequel to the claim of tyranny at Whiston Workhouse's hospital, the annual meeting of Sutton ratepayers is held in the Griffin Inn, why Mary Callaghan's heart had been broken, a woman is accused of stealing groceries from a Dentons Green shop and why Wigan was told to pay for a lunatic's keep in Rainhill Asylum.