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.
“Liverpool

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the battle of Westfield Street, a "piteous appeal" is made by a Park Road beggar, a demonstration of bicycle riding is held in the Volunteer Hall, a near riot takes place in Liverpool Street, the 47th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers hold a shooting contest at St Helens Junction, a group of Dentons Green gipsies hold a ball, nail making in St Helens and the story of the sleeping drunk in the dock.
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“St

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the hapless pickpocket in St Helens Market, the Rainford Church sexton accused of highway robbery, a runaway horse in Baldwin Street, the woman who tore a bonnet off the head of a policeman's wife in Peter Street, the Whiston Workhouse master is asked to resign after an inquiry, the horse that was made to pull pig iron up an Eccleston hill and a presentation is made to a Peasley Cross pastor.
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“Whiston

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an allegation of police brutality on a butcher in Ormskirk Street, "grave charges" are made against the Master of Whiston Workhouse, the foundation stone is laid for a new Sutton school, a woman from Liverpool Road tells the magistrates that she'd been the cause of her husband striking her, an 11-year-old boy steals a magic lantern and there is a curious water prosecution of a little girl.
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“Holy

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a shocking mining accident in Ashton-in-Makerfield, the professional singer who became riotous in Bridge Street, a prediction on the use of the "curious" new bicycles in St Helens, a leather tannery in Billinge, a soap maker goes out of business, St Ann's new church in Warrington Road, Rainhill is re-consecrated and more harsh prison sentences, including a boy who was ordered to be whipped.
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Griffin Inn Peasley Cross

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st March 1869)

This week's stories include the dead man in College Street who had a tin cheque, Good Friday in St Helens, a sequel to the claim of tyranny at Whiston Workhouse's hospital, the annual meeting of Sutton ratepayers is held in the Griffin Inn, why Mary Callaghan's heart had been broken, a woman is accused of stealing groceries from a Dentons Green shop and why Wigan was told to pay for a lunatic's keep in Rainhill Asylum.
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“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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