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.
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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Parr Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 SEPTEMBER 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Dentons Green pear thefts of a magistrate, the start of the temperance groups' fight against the many St Helens pubs, a call for the building of a good approach road to the new Town Hall, the rejoicing at the foundation stone laying of a new Methodist church and the claim of sexual assault in Union Street in St Helens that was dismissed because of the delay in the victim reporting it.
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Liverpool Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the new harsh rules for the extreme poor claiming relief, the violent women's quarrel that took place in a Water Street inn, the married couple brutally kicked in Greenbank, the Phythian Street bother that led to a charge of assault against a bobby being dropped and the Liverpool Street woman who said the man that had stolen clothes from her home had only been trying to plague her.
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St Helens Foundry summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the stringent cuts that were planned in relief payments for the very poor, the St Helens butcher who bought sheep infected with foot and mouth disease, the engineering apprentice who sought to cancel his indentures as he wanted to go to sea, the brutal attack on an old woman in Whiston and Beechams seek compensation from the railway company for damage to a consignment of pills.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Parr purring threat that failed a prosecution, the paralysed beggar who was sent to prison after supping in a Liverpool Road pub, the drunk in the marketplace pottery stand, the clown cricketers that easily beat St Helens Cricket Club, the brutal kicking of a Cowley Street wife and the row over ducks eating corn that led to an old woman in Parr getting herself knocked to the ground.
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Rookery Station, Rainford, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the poor state of the St Helens police station, a committee of philanthropic ladies open the first public children's nursery in St Helens, the plans for a new post office to be opened in Church Street, the neighbourly row that was over a shared clothesline, the YMCA's facilities in Waterloo Street and the faithless Rainford swain who dumped his girlfriend when she became pregnant.
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Kirkland Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 JULY - 3 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the claim for compensation after a little girl loses a toe, the Sutton Heath Colliery fire is explained, another drunk drowns in St Helens Canal, the death down a Thatto Heath coal mine, the Parr Stocks neighbours that were in dispute, the police get another kicking in Parr, the second annual Sutton Athletics Sports is held and the child's death while being employed at the works of Rainford Potteries.
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School Brow Rainford summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 21 - 27 JULY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fire on a coal heap at Sutton Heath that spread with alarming rapidity, the problems with the roads and pavements in Rainford, the Parr Mount woman who said she wanted blood for supper, the Clown Cricketers playing a match in Dentons Green, an analysis of the water shortages in St Helens, the Sutton Copper Works foreman's natal day and the Smithy Brow threat to scatter brains.
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