St Helens History This Week

Bringing History to Life from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago!

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.
Sutton Heath colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JULY - 4 AUG 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the boy who was labelled a street Arab and who swam like a frog and dashed up a chimney, the devastating Liverpool docks fire, the Sutton mother who begged magistrates to punish her wayward boy, the washing machine on sale in Hamer Street, the family that attacked a policeman in Greenbank and the lads that were arrested for committing indecent exposure while bathing in the canal.
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Prescot Parish Church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JULY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the dirty dialogue that took place between two women in Liverpool Street, the stormy meeting inside Prescot Parish Church to discuss the renovation of its interior, the Ravenhead Plate Glass Works excursion to Morecambe Bay, the photography club in Ormskirk Street, the new omnibus service to Haydock and an Irish home rule campaigner delivers a lecture in St Helens.
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St Helens Foundry summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 JULY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the freak of a lunatic at Bold, the man who was prosecuted for taking two days off work, the overcrowded and smelly lodging houses, the sleeping man in Dentons Green Lane that had his watch pinched, the vast assemblage that attended the St Helens Athletics Festival and the man who called himself an unfortunate creature who the police needed to tie to a hand cart to take to the station.
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Holy Cross Church, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 JULY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the new church planned for Earlestown, the society wedding of the year takes place, the horse stealing in Rainford that led to a heavy prison sentence, the joiners striking over apprentices, the suicide of a Rainford doctor, the diorama in the Volunteer Hall and the brutal wife beater returns to court to face his victim who was bearing what was described as having a most death-like appearance.
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Roughdales, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 JULY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a shocking case of wife beating by a husband who had previously threatened to murder his spouse, more on the criticism of the bricks that were being used to build the new St Helens Town Hall, the deadly kick from a cow in Prescot, the eleven-year-old boys who were illegally employed in a brickfield and the arrested man who encouraged people on the street to throw stones at the police.
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St Helens Citadel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 JUNE 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the woman described as old and wretched looking who was charged with theft in Parr, the heavy penalty for the burglar who broke into several St Helens pubs, the assault in Traverse Street that was justified by immoral conduct, the shocking rise in mortality rates in St Helens and the woman who waxed exceedingly wroth and then attacked a woman who had been gossiping about her.
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St Helens market summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 JUNE 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the children's Race Friday parades that served as counter-attractions to Newton Races, how a breach of the peace in Greenbank was punished by a nine-month prison sentence, the stealing of a pipe from a man's mouth in Bridge Street, the intolerable smell that came from an East Street ashpit and the man accused of giving his wife abominable treatment who threatened to cut her throat.
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Junction Hotel summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 JUNE 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a defence of the bricks being used to build the new town hall, the violent woman who told magistrates her motto was death or glory, the fire at Pewfall Colliery caused by a furnaceman moving ashes, the fake traveller at the Junction Hotel, the battle of the billposters who stuck their notices onto the same wall and the woman who sought revenge against a witness in a court case.
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Kirkdale Gaol summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 JUNE 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the begging letter impostor who said he wanted to go to America to stake an inheritance, criticism of the "shameful" bricks that were being used to build the new Town Hall, the pit sinker killed at Whiston, why houses in the higher parts of the town had a disrupted water supply, the Prescot Grand Fete and the bankruptcy of the Water Street tailor that sued the St Helens Newspaper for libel.
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Liverpool Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 MAY - 2 JUNE 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the highway robbery that took place inside a Croppers Hill railway tunnel, there's more wife beating in St Helens, the disorderly blackguards in Liverpool Street, the 2,000 children that participated in a Band of Hope march to Sherdley Park, the knifing attack in Gerards Bridge, a poker assault in Market Street and the St Helens Newspaper predicts cremation will never prove popular.
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Pilkingtons, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 MAY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the campaign to clean up the filthy lodging houses of Prescot, how a wet Whit Monday was celebrated by thousands of children in St Helens, a claim for compensation for the breaking of a child's leg, the ticket-of-leave man that attacked a policeman in Salisbury Street, the abusive beggar going round houses in Sutton and the battered wife that asked the Bench to be lenient with her husband.
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