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 Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 OCTOBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the balloon flight in Prescot that was said to be carrying a living freight, the revival of an old Catholic chapel at Portico that had been nearly deserted, the cheeky copper theft from the Ring O' Bells in Westfield Street, the stone-throwing at St Helens police in Greenbank while they were making an arrest and the woman who was badly beaten who was claimed to have been the real villain of the piece.
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James Radley, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 7 - 13 OCTOBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the offer to provide a chain of office for St Helens' mayors to wear, a serious accident occurs on the railway at Ravenhead, the apathy from the people of St Helens towards the miners' strike, the defamation against a wife in Rainford's Eagle and Child, the market stallholder accusing of crying his goods and the heavy sentence imposed for breaking into a house in Parr and stealing clothes.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 SEPT - 6 OCT 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the man called Crook who punched a policeman on the nose in Church Street, why the miners' of St Helens and Haydock had gone on strike, the claim that patients that were dying were being dumped on Whiston Workhouse, the road rage incident that took place in Naylor Street, the expanding St Helens Cottage Hospital and the Beetle brothers are in trouble for beating up a woman in Parr.
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Whiston Workhouse plaque summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 SEPTEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include Rainford's polluted water supply that came from the Randle Brook or from wells, the pubs that had their licences taken away, the movement calling for compulsory education for St Helens' children, the many men that died after suffering an accident, the riot in Greenbank after the police had made an arrest and the giant dying of fever that visited pubs on his way to the workhouse.
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Kurtz summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 SEPTEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the naked baby from Bold Street that was left alone on wet straw, the introduction of exchange and mart in newspapers, the dangers of accidentally walking into heaps of nightsoil, the high mounds of chemical waste in Langtree Street, the woman who bashed a grocer with a broom and two St Helens firms deny allowing acid to flow into the public sewers despite evidence to the contrary.
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Market summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 SEPTEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the formation of a fife and drum band at Whiston Workhouse, the blackguard market traders in St Helens that were passing blasphemous remarks, the Water Street fight that became a pointless and expensive court case, the liquidation of the mismanaged Sutton Alkali Co-operative Society and a chemical factory in Pocket Nook denies polluting sewers in St Helens with noxious matter.
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St Helens County Court summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 SEPTEMBER 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the claim of murder in Parr Flat, the indecent assault on a 12-year-old girl in Moss Bank, there is more stinging criticism of the court system in St Helens, the St Helens magistrates reject applications by beerhouses to sell spirits, the exiled German Fathers perform at Lowe House Church and the cricket match in Dentons Green in which only the two captains knew how to play the game.
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Lowe House summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 AUGUST - 1 SEPT 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fathers that were ordered to birch their own sons under the supervision of the police, the Water Street female sweet seller who was accused of providing extra services to men, there's criticism of the lack of an art school in St Helens, some shocking starvation cases in London are described and the lucky escape of the man who tried to board a moving train at St Helens Station.
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Whiston workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 AUGUST 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the concern and complacency over the high rate of infant mortality in St Helens, the domestic servant's theft of cash from a Prescot doctor, the living skeletons in Whiston Workhouse, the illicit Sunday morning drinking in Prescot, a meeting is held in Gerards Bridge of the Catholic Association for the Suppression of Drunkenness and an inquiry is held into the water shortage in Whiston.
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Rainford catholic school summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 AUGUST 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Blackbrook woman who suffered a dreadful death from rabies, the return to court of a woman accused of being a disreputable character, the opening of the first Catholic school in Rainford for a hundred years, the little boys that were prosecuted for simply walking across a field and the man accused of being a lazy, drunken, idle fellow who said he wanted to cherish his wife.
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Tontine Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 AUGUST 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the runaway horse in Tontine Street that dashed into a shop window, the brutal attack on an old man in Parr because he was Irish, the knife assault in a Sutton pub, the Parr woman charged with uttering counterfeit coin, the miserable looking old man who stole bread from a Church Street shop and several fathers are prosecuted for not having their child vaccinated against smallpox.
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