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.
Whiston Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 NOVEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the efforts to deter tramps from staying overnight at Whiston Workhouse, the landlady with a dozen lodgers staying in her house in Liverpool Street, the inquiry that was held after the master of Whiston Workhouse was accused of fathering a child, James Brockbank's new boot and shoe manufactory and the pit sinking deaths at a new coal mine at Collins Green caused by a simple mistake.
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Fleece Hotel, St Helens

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 NOVEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the curious tract-selling character who said he had a weak mind through suffering sunstroke in the army, Greenall's rent dinner for their licensees takes place in the Fleece Hotel, the clog attack and kicking of a woman in Liverpool Street that brought on premature labour and the two men who were brought to book after deserting their wives but had different outcomes in court.
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St Helens Cottage Hospital nurses summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 NOVEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the start of St Helens Hospital's penny-a-week scheme, the painful death of a child who was burnt in Parr, a Greenbank corner man appears in court for assaulting the police, the harsh prison sentences that were imposed for stealing, the elderly man killed by a cart in Haydock while crossing the road and the wife who bashed a constable in Bridge Street in St Helens with one of her husband's clogs.
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Sutton Heath Colliery, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 OCT - 2 NOV 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the complexity of a Waterloo Street public heath nuisance involving slops of waste and piggeries, the fatal accident at Sutton Heath Colliery, the St Thomas Church fundraising bazaar, the solicitors' bust-up in St Helens Petty Sessions in which one man challenged the other to a fight and the vicious revenge attack at Earlestown that saw the wife of a pub waiter badly beaten.
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Citadel St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 OCTOBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the overwinding accident that took place at Nutgrove Colliery while two men were pit sinking, the violence in a College Street beerhouse over a card game, the straw stack blaze at Bold in which the fire brigade took an hour to arrive, the plans to create the Mersey Tunnel, the hare coursing case in Rainford and the reopening of the redecorated and beautified Theatre Royal in St Helens.
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Parr Street St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 OCTOBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drunken man who drove his cart into a load of bricks in Park Road, the attempted rape by a lodger, the purring case in Haydock, the fatal accident to a sleepwalker in Boundary Lane, the attempt to take an arrested man from Liverpool Road to the police station and the openings of the Rainford Catholic Chapel, the new Conservative Club and the tobacco showrooms in Naylor Street.
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St Helens Hospital summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 OCTOBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Newspaper's criticism of the drunkenness that was prevalent in St Helens, Hospital Saturday takes place to raise funds for the cottage hospital, the young father who refused to obey a bastardy order, the malicious acts committed against the Lorne Hotel, the Greenbank stabbing of a young woman by the father of her children and the policeman that had his trousers torn to pieces.
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Baldwin Street Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 SEPT - 5 OCT 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the retirement of the Prescot police chief through being violently assaulted on numerous occasions, the St Helens licensing blacklist, the violent storm that struck St Helens, Sutton Cricket Club play an unusual game between married and single men, the indecent exposure that took place in Dunriding Lane and the Prescot Guardians are told to stop claiming free meals when having meetings.
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Pilkingtons Glass, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 SEPTEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the intolerable nuisances that took place in Victoria Passage, the wild Irish farm workers causing trouble outside Rainford's Derby Arms, the strange death in Liverpool of a well-known St Helens builder, the formation of a shorthand writers association for St Helens, the brainless theft of a coat from a Bridge Street beerhouse and the death of a boy employed at Pilkingtons Glass Works.
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Kirkdale Prison, Liverpool summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 SEPTEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the abominable offence committed in the stable of Rainford's Derby Arms, the man who wandered into a coal mine and began playing at being an engineer, the almighty row in Phythian Street, how a drunken Dusty Bob died on a Rainford railway line, the attempted rape of a nine-year-old girl and the Smithy Brow row in which the contents of a bedroom po were poured over a woman's head.
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Watery Lane, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 SEPTEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the tobacco and cigar manufactory that was coming to St Helens, the fake Liverpool doctor that got a Rainhill housemaid pregnant, the Ellamsbridge Road melee between the landlords of the Mechanics Arms and Victoria Vaults, the curious attempt at an indecent assault on a woman at Whiston and the Eccleston cook who was attacked while walking to a religious service in Prescot.
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