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.
“Victoria

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th March 1869)

This week's stories include an extraordinary eviction at the Bowling Green Inn in Sutton, the Parr dog beater who said puppies should be horsewhipped, the 12-year-old severely injured at work in Whiston, furious driving by sailors in Church Street, the "great pest" returns to court, the unknown man who died at the Town Hall, a lecture on Dr Livingstone and why Victoria Passage near Bridge Street was often in the news.
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Whiston Workhouse

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th March 1869)

This week's stories include a complaint by Whiston Workhouse's head nurse alleging tyranny from the master, a menagerie of elephants, lions, polar bears and camels comes to St Helens, a 12-year-old is harshly treated for stealing coal from Ravenhead, a shop worker appeals for early closing, a professor of dancing and deportment opens a Hardshaw Street school and the Hall Street women who called each other filthy names.
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Prescot Reporter

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th March 1869)

This week's stories include a dramatic leap from a train by St Helens Junction, window smashing in Liverpool Road, a man sent to prison for begging in Prescot market place, the workhouse inmate who died from "overgorging" on pork, Eccleston Penny Readings, the men committing an "intolerable nuisance" against a policeman's door, a meeting to raise funds for dead miners' families and a bizarre gas experiment in Prescot.
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Sherdley Park Houses St Helens

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th Feb. - 3rd March 1869)

This week's stories include a battle of butchers in the Bird i'th Hand, a billycock theft in Bridge Street, more on the vicious assault on a Rainford woman, the man fined five bob for grinning in court, two suicides by drowning, the disadvantage of being the wife of a St Helens policeman, the Prescot apprentice prosecuted for not going to work and the man asleep in his cart in Knowsley while his horse took him home.
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Laceys School St Helens

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th February 1869)

This week's stories include a vicious assault on a Rainford woman, a dispute over a cart in Ormskirk Street, a strange childhood anecdote from the Vicar of Rainhill, more harsh sentences for coal stealing, the comic tale of the irrepressible drunkard Dennis Fay, the reopening of the historic Independent Chapel in Ormskirk Street, Prescot Fair and the opponents of the St Helens Improvement Bill meet at the Raven Hotel.
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Independent Chapel St Helens

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th February 1869)

This week's stories include the Prescot mother who promised to give her son a "first-class whipping", a backlash against steam whistles, a ventilatist gives a lecture in Ormskirk Street, there's a fire at a St Helens candle works, a Greenall's painter comes to grief on Newton Common, the annual soiree of Pilkington's workers and the Parr man treated more leniently in court than a woman who'd committed the same offence.
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“Whiston

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th February 1869)

This week's stories include the Thatto Heath tramp's unprovoked attack on a policeman, the "disgusting savage" of Pocket Nook, a double tragedy in Scholes Lane, the printer that fled from the police straight into St Helens canal, Valentine's Day cards in the town, the fever-struck common lodging house in Prescot and James Varley of the Waterloo Foundry is fined for contravening the regulations for employing children.
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“Alpiine

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th Jan. - 3rd Feb. 1869)

This week's many stories include the Eccleston gun suicide, a forcible ejectment in Duke Street, the 12-year-old girl who had never been to school, the unlucky Pilkington's shirt thief, the opinionated market stall holder, the theft of a pick from Alexandra Colliery, the row at Crank railway station, Alpine House in Church Road, Rainford and a meeting of miners takes place in the Town Hall to demand improved safety.
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Kirkdale Gaol

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th January 1869)

This week's stories include the Parr man who tried to strangle his wife, a startling Sutton train incident, the man of East Indian blood in Bridge Street, the Double Locks drawbridge drowning, the 47th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers annual ball, a Sunday morning beerhouse dilemma, the St Helens dog deniers, Pilkington's boys' annual treat and the bodies of the Rainford miners who plummeted down a pit shaft are retrieved.
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Old St Helens Town Hall

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th January 1869)

This week's stories include a Water Street child tragedy, a Parr poker assault on Christmas Day, the two little girl thieves in Ormskirk Street, a horse beater in Exchange Street, the two canal inspectors who came to grief near Liverpool Road, a trotting match is held from the Bird-in-Hand to Eccleston Lane Ends, a theft of lead and severe sentences are handed out to St Helens' folk at the Liverpool Quarter Sessions.
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“Fleece

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th January 1869)

This week's stories include the Peasley Cross cock stealers, a shocking mining tragedy in Rainford, the drowning of a drunkard in Pocket Nook, the Mayoress is presented with a silver cradle, a 12-year-old boy sues a stallholder in St Helens Market for causing injury, the game watcher in Rainford who reported his fellow miners, a drunk makes his 45th court appearance and a Masonic ball is held in the Prescot courtroom.
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