150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th JANUARY 1873)
This week's stories include the drunk in the Wheatsheaf in Rainford that attacked a policeman, a lodger's brainless theft from his Eccleston home, the Lowe Street slag that hurt a horse, the Windle Park poacher that attacked a gamekeeper, the quick-fire theft from the Albion in Parr, the New Year's Day party in Rainford that turned into a family fight and the stubborn Parr pony boy who refused to give his parents his keep.