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.
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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Old Lane, Rainford summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 FEBRUARY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include an account of the annual St Helens Catholic Charity Ball, a report on the noxious vapours from St Helens works' chimneys, the Peasley Cross bottlemaker who learned that you cannot sleep at your work, the little girl servant in a beerhouse whose father was paid to drop a prosecution and the young man while paying his addresses to a woman at Rainford placed her house under siege.
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Holy Cross church summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 FEBRUARY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include why the residents of Hardshaw Street were fuming with Greenall's brewery, the disorder at a tea party and ball, the violent Rainhill row between two women, the youth who caused trouble in St Thomas's church, the Noggs protection order, the brainless theft from Liverpool Street lodgings and the stolen jacket in the Hesketh Arms in Church Street that dropped on to a woman's head.
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Rainford school summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JAN - 4 FEB 1824

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fight in the Crystal Palace beerhouse in Sutton, the soiree and ball that took place in Rainford National School, the failed appointment of a new schoolteacher at Whiston Workhouse, the Valentine's Day cards that were on sale in St Helens and there's more criticism of the poisonous St Helens atmosphere after an alderman claimed that sea breezes dissipated much of the smoke.
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Rainford Church, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JANUARY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the cow's head hanging outside a butcher's shop that had caused an obstruction, Whiston Workhouse's Christmas tree celebration, the lengthy waits at Crank's level crossing for someone to unlock the gates, more on the new temperance movement in St Helens, the healthy population of Rainford and why St Helens Council planned to write to Queen Victoria and the Duke of Edinburgh.
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Pilkingtons, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 JANUARY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the freed slaves performing at the Volunteer Hall, a call for an ambulance to be provided for St Helens, the suicidal French polisher that the magistrates passed onto Oldham, the Pilkington's Glassworks apprentice who tried to abscond to India, a comical row between neighbours over gossip and the Rainhill man that died after police handcuffs had been placed too tightly upon his wrists.
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Kings Head, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 JANUARY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the abominable water supply in Robins Lane in Sutton, the man that died in Parr after his dog ran on to chemical waste, the mayoral gifts of blankets and quilts for the deserving poor, the plans to build a general post office in Church Street, a schoolteacher is wanted for Whiston Workhouse, the St Helens Newspaper's illustrated almanack and the criticism of the immoral attentions of a married man.
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Bird In The Hand, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 JANUARY 1874

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drunkenness that took place in St Helens on New Year's Day, the annual New Year treat to the aged poor, the cowardly runaway husband from Rainhill, the theft of a charity box from the Globe Hotel in Ormskirk Street, the row between neighbours that led to nine summonses being issued and how stealing a plank of wood was considered more serious than giving a policeman a black eye.
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Citadel, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 DECEMBER 1873

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens Newspaper's musings on the meaning of Christmas, the joy of Christmas Day in Whiston Workhouse, the Canal Street crowd that tried to stop policemen from making an arrest, the Peasley Cross grocer brought down to earth in a spirit of wantonness, the poaching on the Bold Hall estate, the fire at the old Town Hall, the Haydock miners' strike over how many hundredweight comprise a ton and more details of the new St Helens News and Reading Room.
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Laceys Cowley School, St Helens summary

150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 DECEMBER 1873

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the gorgeous Christmas pantomime at the Theatre Royal in St Helens, a Haydock man is suspected of murdering his wife, the banquet that was held at the Fleece Hotel for the principal inhabitants of St Helens, the scarlet fever outbreak at Whiston Workhouse, the annual Cowley School reunion, the abused Newton apprentice wheelwright and the pub collections in St Helens for a boys' refuge.
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