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.
St Helens Foundry summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the stringent cuts that were planned in relief payments for the very poor, the St Helens butcher who bought sheep infected with foot and mouth disease, the engineering apprentice who sought to cancel his indentures as he wanted to go to sea, the brutal attack on an old woman in Whiston and Beechams seek compensation from the railway company for damage to a consignment of pills.
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St Helens Newspaper summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Parr purring threat that failed a prosecution, the paralysed beggar who was sent to prison after supping in a Liverpool Road pub, the drunk in the marketplace pottery stand, the clown cricketers that easily beat St Helens Cricket Club, the brutal kicking of a Cowley Street wife and the row over ducks eating corn that led to an old woman in Parr getting herself knocked to the ground.
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Rookery Station, Rainford, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the poor state of the St Helens police station, a committee of philanthropic ladies open the first public children's nursery in St Helens, the plans for a new post office to be opened in Church Street, the neighbourly row that was over a shared clothesline, the YMCA's facilities in Waterloo Street and the faithless Rainford swain who dumped his girlfriend when she became pregnant.
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Kirkland Street, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 JULY - 3 AUGUST 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the claim for compensation after a little girl loses a toe, the Sutton Heath Colliery fire is explained, another drunk drowns in St Helens Canal, the death down a Thatto Heath coal mine, the Parr Stocks neighbours that were in dispute, the police get another kicking in Parr, the second annual Sutton Athletics Sports is held and the child's death while being employed at the works of Rainford Potteries.
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School Brow Rainford summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 21 - 27 JULY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fire on a coal heap at Sutton Heath that spread with alarming rapidity, the problems with the roads and pavements in Rainford, the Parr Mount woman who said she wanted blood for supper, the Clown Cricketers playing a match in Dentons Green, an analysis of the water shortages in St Helens, the Sutton Copper Works foreman's natal day and the Smithy Brow threat to scatter brains.
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Sutton Oak station, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 JULY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the three railway accidents in which two men and a child lost limbs, the thrashing of a little boy over a lost ball, the violent assault on a constable in Peasley Cross Lane, the rationing of the town's water supply through shortages, a death down Gillars Green Colliery and the St Helens Newspaper hopes that the inhuman brutality for which the town had become notorious had been checked.
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Sutton Grange, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 7 - 13 JULY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include criticism of the chosen location for the new post office, the vicious horse that was said to have jibbed at every street corner, the ex-St Helens grocer who spent £1,000 on booze and was accused of setting fire to a cotton mill, the mother left penniless by her husband who fainted through lack of food and the two tragic child drownings that took place within half-an-hour of each other.
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Pilkington Glassworks St Helens 1870s summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 JUNE - 6 JULY 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the melee in Greenbank involving bricks and pokers, the Rainford poaching case, a gigantic strike at Pilkingtons over a wage reduction is averted, the crucifixion case near Golborne, the boy that drowned in a waterfilled pit in Rainford, the Prescot Reporter campaigns for insanitary dwellings to be demolished and the wretched house in which three children had nothing to lie on.
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Bridge Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 JUNE 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 44-year-old man described as an elderly coal stealer, the lazy fellow that attacked his mother in a Greenbank pub, the 11-year-old concertina thief, the window smasher in a police cell, the supposed witnesses to dogs being set on donkeys who had not seen anything and the young man who got his girlfriend of two years standing pregnant but claimed he had only spoken to her once.
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St Helens Hospital summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 JUNE 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include St Helens Cottage Hospital's successful annual meeting, the ongoing scarlet fever outbreak in St Helens, how Thatto Heath was fast developing into a little village, two similar pit sinking deaths occur in Bold and in Thatto Heath through the negligence of workers and there's hope that the new Rivers Pollution Bill would improve both the highly polluted Sankey Brook and Mersey river.
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Red White and Blue pub St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 JUNE 1875

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Robins Lane trespassing case by a nine-year-old boy, the Westfield Street pub that was illegally serving drinks, the Baxters Lane sewage that was flowing around people's yards, Denis Feigh is released from prison and then swiftly returned to gaol, the excitement surrounding a Sutton council by-election and the man who beat up a police constable after he had refused to arrest him.
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