St Helens History This Week

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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.
“Canal

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 10-year-old boy sent to prison for stealing a bag of nails, two violent Peasley Cross poachers, two destructive fires at Nutgrove Farm, a warning that the council chamber was in danger of becoming a bear garden, a temperance meeting in Sutton, a fatal walk on the railway line to Rainhill and the recidivist Catherine Yates is back on the streets charged with indecency in Canal Street.
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“Griffin

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th Sept. - 6th Oct. 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the tollgates to Thatto Heath, Eccleston and Parr, the Rainford poacher watcher on duty in Maggots Nook, a sumptuous dinner at the Griffin Inn, the woman involved in a Prescot poker assault who performed a man's toilet, the Eccleston Penny Readings, the shameful attack in Parr, the excitable woman in a Snig Lane scrimmage and the violent wife who hit her husband over the head with a pan.
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“St

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th September 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the gang of burglars that had "infested" the town, the slanderous women's whispering in Parr, a new schoolmistress at Whiston Workhouse, an assault in Liverpool Road, the utterly reckless girl thief from Parr Flat who liked to go out at night, agitation by local miners, a concert for the victims of the Haydock Colliery explosion and the first dedicated Baptist Chapel.
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“Bridge

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd September 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the conclusion of the Parr vicar sex scandal, St Helens's enormous cucumbers, the donkey stone assault in Eccleston, the 'Grand Display of Fireworks' in Thatto Heath, a distraction theft takes place in the Shakespeare Inn in Bridge Street, two old offenders are back on the streets and a Grand Concert is held in aid of the families of the victims of the Haydock Colliery explosion.
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“Liverpool

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th September 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a violent assault at St Helens Junction on the workhouse doctor by the ex-Master, the cruel child beater of Parr who used a leather belt on his wife, an advertisement for a new schoolmistress for Whiston Workhouse, an inspection of Lancashire lunatics, the St Helens fair takes place, there's more begging in Liverpool Road and why the rain was good news for industry.
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“Bowling

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th September 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the athletics fan who was thrown off a moving train near Clock Face, the "mad drunk" Robins Lane beerhouse keeper who gave his wife a beating, a Rainhill to Sankey pony trotting match, the Albion Hotel window smashing, a petition against a Market Place singing room, the Haydock witness that fled to France and the young Whiston Workhouse potato thieves appear in court.
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“Tontine

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th August - 1st Sept. 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the dreadful state of Thatto Heath with poor roads and water supply, the dangerous lunatics in Whiston Workhouse, more neighbours battle it out in Parr, a schoolteacher is forced to quit her job, a concert in aid of the Haydock Explosion Fund, the beerhouse brothel of Water Street, the troublesome Maid of Erin of Tontine Street and a Prescot woman is jailed for shouting in the street.
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“College

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th August 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the sex scandal of a St Helens' vicar, two cheeky College Street robberies, two violent Rainhill rows, a soldier's court martial at St Helens Junction, a farmer sues Sutton Copper Works for damaging his crops, a woman from Peckers Hill throws a bucket of water over her neighbour and local miners demand "parliamentary agitation" to obtain improved inspection and ventilation of coal mines.
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“Griffin

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th August 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a Raglan Street man's violent attack on his wife, a Parr girl's ingratitude to a Good Samaritan, The Times demands new laws to improve mine safety as a result of the Haydock mining disaster, the lads who broke school windows, more wearing apparel thefts, the Fancy Tobacco and Snuffs for sale in Liverpool Road and the little Parr boys who climbed onto the roof of a house to catch pigeons.
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“Peasley

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th August 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a case of furious driving in Peasley Cross Lane, the revenge of the Greenbank women, the scathing inquest verdict on the Haydock mining disaster, the boys who ransacked a Peasley Cross house, a Liverpool hoax with a Rainhill connection, a Parr assault that led to the "most villainous language" in court, how the Rainford district had been filled with swamps and a new church for Ravenhead.
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“Connollys

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th July - 4th August 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the inoffensive man who knocked a woman's teeth out in College Street, the dangerous practice of giving sick kids brandy, an inspection of the Whiston Workhouse school, the aftermath of the Haydock mining disaster, vandalism in Eccleston, an assault on a Parr shopkeeper, Connolly's lottery tickets and the boy described as a complete outlaw who would run along the eaves of a whole street.
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