150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 MAY 1874
This week's many stories include the filthy tumble-down cottages of Prescot, the laying of the foundation stone of Rainford's Catholic school, the damages awarded for breach of promise of marriage, the fines given to the badly paid night soil men, the repulsive looking woman who stole boots from a house in Claughton Street, the shocking health report for 1873, the guinea cat window breaking case in Prescot and why the body of a chemical worker needed to be exhumed from the cemetery.