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.
“Whiston

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th February 1869)

This week's stories include the Thatto Heath tramp's unprovoked attack on a policeman, the "disgusting savage" of Pocket Nook, a double tragedy in Scholes Lane, the printer that fled from the police straight into St Helens canal, Valentine's Day cards in the town, the fever-struck common lodging house in Prescot and James Varley of the Waterloo Foundry is fined for contravening the regulations for employing children.
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“Alpiine

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th Jan. - 3rd Feb. 1869)

This week's many stories include the Eccleston gun suicide, a forcible ejectment in Duke Street, the 12-year-old girl who had never been to school, the unlucky Pilkington's shirt thief, the opinionated market stall holder, the theft of a pick from Alexandra Colliery, the row at Crank railway station, Alpine House in Church Road, Rainford and a meeting of miners takes place in the Town Hall to demand improved safety.
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Kirkdale Gaol

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th January 1869)

This week's stories include the Parr man who tried to strangle his wife, a startling Sutton train incident, the man of East Indian blood in Bridge Street, the Double Locks drawbridge drowning, the 47th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers annual ball, a Sunday morning beerhouse dilemma, the St Helens dog deniers, Pilkington's boys' annual treat and the bodies of the Rainford miners who plummeted down a pit shaft are retrieved.
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Old St Helens Town Hall

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th January 1869)

This week's stories include a Water Street child tragedy, a Parr poker assault on Christmas Day, the two little girl thieves in Ormskirk Street, a horse beater in Exchange Street, the two canal inspectors who came to grief near Liverpool Road, a trotting match is held from the Bird-in-Hand to Eccleston Lane Ends, a theft of lead and severe sentences are handed out to St Helens' folk at the Liverpool Quarter Sessions.
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“Fleece

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

This week's stories include the Peasley Cross cock stealers, a shocking mining tragedy in Rainford, the drowning of a drunkard in Pocket Nook, the Mayoress is presented with a silver cradle, a 12-year-old boy sues a stallholder in St Helens Market for causing injury, the game watcher in Rainford who reported his fellow miners, a drunk makes his 45th court appearance and a Masonic ball is held in the Prescot courtroom.
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“Whiston

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st Dec. 1868 - 6th Jan. 1869)

This week's stories include "Gompertz's Great Original Spectrescope" exhibited at the Volunteer Hall, the old woman who called the magistrate "darling", the Duke Street swindler who conned a dozen shopkeepers into giving her goods, the "jolly good dinner" for the elderly poor of Parr, the Sutton Glassworks sandpit tragedy and the uncooperative man that the police had to carry horizontally out of a Market Street shop.
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