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.
Rainhill Asylum summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 APRIL - 5 MAY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the finest display ever witnessed in the May Day horse parade in St Helens, the tramps that stayed overnight in Whiston Workhouse, the battered wife who was blamed for provoking her husband, Rainhill Lunatic Asylum increases its rates of admission, the Peasley Cross girl who was killed while taking dinner to her father at work, the story of the old creature and the stolen coal, St Helens Public Baths reopens and the ex-workhouse boy who became a thief.
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Tontine Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 APRIL 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the betting mania in Prescot, the violent passenger at the St Helens Station who behaved like a lunatic, the glassworker fined for arriving ten minutes late at work, the man charged with having a diseased pig in Tontine Street, the obnoxious impost of income tax, the dog at Peckers Hill that was supposedly set on a man during a row and the vandalised boring machinery in Rainford.
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Bold Colliery summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 APRIL 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the repulsive burglar of Raglan Street, the battered wife whose retaliation against her husband led to her court case being dismissed, the creation of Bold Colliery, the County Court case in which a man's admission that he had beaten his wife was seen as a positive thing and newspaper adverts for a moderate curate, respectable girls to pack washing powder and the services of a billposter.
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Liverpool Mercury summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 APRIL 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the wife who refused to give evidence against her violent spouse, the vast throng that watched a sham battle on a Rainhill field, more runaway apprentices face the music, a fatal hobbyhorse accident at St Helens Station, the youngsters prosecuted for chatting outside a shop and the two fighting women, one of whom claimed to have received a "smack in the face" and the other a "slap in the mug".
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Tontine Street summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 APRIL 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the breach of promise of marriage case in which a manager of a coal mine tries to con a court, a policeman suffers a severe kicking in Parr Street, the dog that saved a Bridge Street family from fire, the terrible combat in Parr over a stolen spoon, a man is given a kicking in the Griffin Inn in Bold and the vested interests of St Helens' councillors concerning the town’s atmospheric pollution.
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Ship Inn summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 MARCH 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the verdict in the St Helens Newspaper's libel case, a worker is killed at a chemical works after falling into a well of muriatic acid, the Haydock murder charge against a husband, the creative illuminated beggar in Bridge Street, two violent assaults take place in Rainford and the extraordinary dispute between the newly appointed St Helens Town Crier and the manager of the Theatre Royal.
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Rainhill Asylum summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 MARCH 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the plans to enlarge St Helens Market by demolishing many old buildings, the bricklayers' strike at the new St Helens Town Hall is settled, the boys illegally employed at the Eccleston Flint Glassworks, the strange case of the dead duck and the pub singer, the mother who claimed her baby had died from a smallpox vaccination and St Helens' doctors complain about the town's atmosphere.
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Pilkingtons plate glass summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 MARCH 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Pilkington boys strike, Parr miners call for arbitration in their pay dispute with their masters, the dog stealing in the market, St Helens police's annual government inspection, the heavy fines for two absconding apprentices and the St Helens Newspaper wonders why there were restrictions on the shipping of sulphuric acid but none when it was pumped into the town's atmosphere.
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Nurses St Helens Hospital summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 MARCH 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the first annual meeting of St Helens Hospital, there's praise for the work of the three little orphan nurses, there's anger over the high cost of the foundation stone laying for the new Town Hall, the workhouse portress receives a pay rise, St Helens miners are set to have their wages cut due to a drop in the price of coal and a debate concludes that smoking is not harmful for your health.
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Engineer Hall summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 FEB - 3 MARCH 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Andrew Kurtz's generosity to St Helens Hospital, the riotous man in Church Street who was nettled at being arrested, the Sutton horse in a fearful condition that claimed to have been worked for its own good, the Prescot Reporter's unusual argument why women should not have the vote and the new Saints play one of their first matches but had to lend their opposition two of their players.
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Lowe House summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 FEBRUARY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the violence of the riotous colliers after receiving their fortnightly pay, the dog fighting that took place in Sutton, the dangerous railways of the 1870s and the mysterious leap off a train near Rainford, the brute that beat his wife for serving him cheese for his meal and one coal mining dispute is resolved but another one begins as the engine-winders serve notice of strike action.
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