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.
“Lancashire

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th July 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the "owdacious" rag dealer from Liverpool Road, the man who threatened to shoot his neighbour in Pilkingtons Row, a Sutton boy drowns while sailing, more on the devastating Haydock colliery explosion, the almost daily fighting at St Helens railway station, Sutton and Peasley Cross Catholic Schools visit Chester, two fires occur in a single day and the Sunday morning Sutton beer serving.
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“Queen

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st July 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a shocking mining disaster in Haydock that took the lives of 60 men and boys, the runaway apprentice rat catcher, the creeping Parr shop theft, the miserable tramp wards at Whiston Workhouse, the Saturday night punch ups in St Helens, bike maker John Christian offers his expensive machines for sale, Pilkington's annual treat for their boy employees and the low scoring Lowe House batsmen.
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“Alexandra

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th July 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Thatto Heath women who every day walked half a mile with a water can on their heads, the attempted suicide of a lunatic that was blamed on the reading of vicious literature, the fierce Parr Street fight, a Ravenhead colliery tragedy, the woman who denied being struck by her husband in Liverpool Road, how the 12th of July was marked in St Helens and the Sunday morning "jerry wagging".
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“Wigan

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th July 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the prevalence of pocket-picking in St Helens, an allegation of an illegal Eccleston road toll, the Sutton boy taught the "doom of liars", a "pretty team" of cricket cowards from Cowley Hill, the St Helens' master cloggers hold their annual excursion, a "very noisy scene" at Whiston Workhouse, the controversial election of a new Town Clerk for St Helens and an assault with a dolly stick.
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“Rainford

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th June 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the runaway Prescot pony that was startled by a kite, the Hall Street publican's wife who received a black eye from her stepson, the Thatto Heath cart wheel suicide, the 5 bob thrashing in Eccleston Road, an auction of a Rainford blacksmith's effects, a St Helens Junction shooting contest and the nosy women who spent a night watching a house in Bridge Street on the look out for infidelity.
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“Robert

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd June 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a fowl theft in Dentons Green, the brutal beater of his own father at Broad Oak returns to court, the Rainford parish clerk who officiated at 10,000 births, marriages and deaths, there's a fire at a foundry in Eccleston, a lecture on the "evils of strong drink" is delivered at the Ragged School, the mother castigated for not sending her son to church and the woman afraid of being bitten.
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“Prescot

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th June 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a miner's savage assault upon his father in Parr, the Liverpool Road woman with twelve lodgers in her house, a protest meeting in Salisbury Street, more on the Eccleston environmental disaster, a fight between two families involving "hard words, pokers, stones, and various household articles" and the notorious Dennis Fay returns to court charged with riotous conduct in Bridge Street.
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“Whiston

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th June 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the parting shot of the Whiston Workhouse master, the genteel old woman's wincey theft in Church Street, two near-miss train collisions, a serious fire at Blinkhorn and Cook's candle works, the stuffs on sale in Prescot, coal stealer Mary Callaghan returns to court, Ravenhead Plate Glass workers journey to the Lake District and how John Wesley created his Methodist movement in St Helens.
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“Newton

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th May - 2nd June 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the shocking damage done to Eccleston trees by noxious fumes from St Helens' chemical works, the Windle wife beater, the night soil dumper of Havelock Street, the Prescot prosecution for not turning up to work, the start of Newton Races, the pauper woman in Whiston Workhouse who was repatriated to Ireland and the Prescot man who was drunk and riotous once too often.
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“Fisher

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th May 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the bull that got stuck in a Prescot shop, the resolution of the Whiston Workhouse sex scandal, the man who suffered from the blue devils, an assault on the Rainford Junction stationmaster, the severe sentence on a Prescot pedlar for not having a licence, unusual punishments for misbehaving workhouse inmates and the Ancient Shepherds' Friendly Society at Parr are sued in the County Court.
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“Raven

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th May 1869)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an official inquiry into the sex scandal at Whiston Workhouse, the first bus service in St Helens, the "shivering, bare-footed little bundle of suffering humanity" from Smithy Brow, a "murderous assault" within a Westfield Street "house of ill fame", the dubious claims of the Rivers Pollution Commission, the Whit Monday excursionists and the woman whose Irish was got up in Victoria Passage.
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