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.
Wellington Hotel, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13 - 19 NOVEMBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the trowel stealing amongst the labourers that were building the new town hall, the elderly victim of an assault that was branded a lunatic, the pretty ornamental gas lamp at the bottom of Bridge Street, the bigotry of the pit brow lasses at Ravenhead Colliery, more on the claim of corruption at the recent council election and the less than free and easy life of a St Helens carter.
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St Helens Town Hall foundation stone summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6 - 12 NOVEMBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the laying of the new Town Hall's foundation stone, an outbreak of smallpox in St Helens, the exiled German Fathers perform at Prescot Catholic Church, a small boy is sent to prison for a month, Greenall's rent dinner takes place, the little boy from Mill Street that was frightfully scalded by boiling water and the secret ballot that was causing confusion in the St Helens council elections.
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Boundary Road St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30 OCT - 5 NOV 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fight between two brothers that led to a charge of manslaughter, the female Amazons from Atlantis who performed at the Volunteer Hall, the cruelty to a Boundary Road goat, there's criticism of the apathy of voters at local elections, the man that brutally beat up his mother-in-law and an attack on those with big ideas that failed to save the pioneering Mechanics Institute.
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St Helens Cottage Hospital summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23 - 29 OCTOBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the old woman's drowning in the canal, the indifferent interest in supporting St Helens Cottage Hospital, the train ticket for a dog that caused a row at St Helens station, the Park Road squabble that led to a dust up in court, a theft from the Running Horses, the pony boy at Greengate Colliery who kicked his horse and the Water Street brothel keeper who turned to poaching in Bold.
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Whiston workhouse women summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16 - 22 OCTOBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the ragged Bold youth imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, a violent assault on St Helens Junction's stationmaster, Lowe House's circulation library, a goods train derails near St Helens Station, the improved sanitary system in St Helens to reduce disease, the high rates of infant mortality in St Helens and the Rainford policeman that a solicitor accused of an abominable act.
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Knowsley Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9 - 15 OCTOBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the men that were charged with attempted murder through drowning, the arrangements for the laying of the foundation stone for the new Town Hall, more complaints about the no-show St Helens magistrates, the defence of a violent wife-beater, a notorious female impersonator comes to St Helens and the Nutgrove granddad who told a court his grandson was a distant relative.
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St Helens Foundry summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2 - 8 OCTOBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a drunken man's fatal freak in the canal, the Prescot boy that died after jumping on the back of a horse-driven wagon, the drowning outside a Cowley Hill pub, the many railway accidents in the district, the heavy sentence for sleeping in Bridge Street, the immoral transactions that led to a poker blow and the St Helens turner that had spent sixty years employed by the same firm.
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Whiston Workhouse summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25 SEPT - 1 OCT 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the decision to introduce the pail toilet into St Helens, the fearsome butcher in the marketplace, the Sutton pub whose floor was stained with blood, the man who bit off part of a woman's lip in a fight in Greenbank, the shocking infantile mortality stats, a gardener's finding of stolen silver plate and the stunted creature in Ormskirk Street that held onto a big bobby's beard.
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Eagle and Child, Rainford summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18 - 24 SEPTEMBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the brainless fraud at Peasley Cross Colliery, the St Helens father ordered to contribute to the maintenance of his son on a reformatory ship, the flower show in Victoria Pleasure Grounds in Thatto Heath, the Irish boys that spent a night in Whiston Workhouse but refused to do any work and the debate over whether a house in Bridge Street that had rain pouring through its roof was fit to live in.
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Rainhill Asylum summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Rainhill Asylum attendant called the greatest rascal on the face of the earth who was accused of assaulting a patient, the pipe-smoking Parr woman who was attacked in her home, the scarcity of magistrates in St Helens leads to more inconvenience for those that were attending court, the Worcester source that was manufactured in Rainford and the Sutton Alkali Works' day trip to Blackpool.
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Beechams magic cure summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4 - 10 SEPTEMBER 1873)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Rainford girl who accused two men of slander by claiming she had been sleeping with a man in the woods, the stinking fish that was cried for sale in Greenbank, an inspection of the lunatic paupers from Ormskirk in Rainhill Asylum, the strange theft in a bedroom of the Black Bull in Church Street and there's a sequel to the disgusting savagery case in which a man's ear was bitten off.
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