150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th MARCH - 2nd APRIL 1873)
This week's stories include the young boys that were illegally employed at a Liverpool Street bottle works, the poor safety practices at a St Helens copper works that led to a worker's death, the elderly family that were said to like their grog, the man fatally injured at St Helens Goods Station, the annual inspection of St Helens police force and the manure salesman's cheeky frauds on several Rainford and Eccleston farmers.