St Helens History This Week

Bringing History to Life from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago!

Bringing History to Life from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago!

ST HELENS 100 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
This page is a series of weekly articles that describe llfe in the Lancashire town in the 1920s and which are updated every Sunday morning.
100 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
This page is a series of weekly articles that describe llfe in St Helens in Lancashire in the 1920s and which are updated every Sunday morning.
Rainford Village Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 DECEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Rainford Potteries Christmas party, the Reporter's Uncle Ben sends his Christmas greetings to his "loyal little pals", Prescot B.I. send Father Christmas and fairy helpers round the district's hospitals, the wireless set presented to the patients in Haydock Cottage Hospital, Allanson Street school's Christmas party, Handel's Messiah is performed at the Congregational Church and the pantomime that was presented at the Theatre Royal.
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Eagle and Child summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 DECEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the tragic death at the Royal Alfred Hotel, the St Helens man's dole fraud while working for the Employment Exchange in Liverpool, the husband who preferred his dog's company to his wife's, the Duke Street thieves that attempted to make their getaway on a tram, the new maternity block that was planned for St Helens Hospital and the Sutton Manor man for whom it never rains than it pours.
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Ashtons Green Colliery, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 DECEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Lyon Street family row involving pokers, the man who claimed he had been poaching because he needed a pair of boots, the amateur talent show at the St Helens Hippodrome, the bags of coal that fell off a lorry in Moss Bank, it's announced that electricity would be coming to the whole of Parr and the curious case of the maintenance order and the illegitimate Sutton child.
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Providence Hospital, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 DECEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Parr woman who used a trick to steal from children, the shocking death in a Haydock coal mine after a pit cage was lowered in error, the Christmas parties that would now be available to all St Helens schoolchildren, the desperate need for homes in St Helens, Cholerton's special wireless headphones offer and the Church Street clothier that advertised that they had no rubbish to sell.
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Croppers Hill St Helens power station summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 NOV - 1 DEC 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the fan light that fell on to a Church Street shop's customer, the election shindy that took place in Napier Street, the bowling club for women, the frank love letters that were read out in a court case, the electricity promotion published in the Reporter and the sacred concert at the Hippodrome Theatre in aid of the spiritual breaks that were held at Loyola Hall in Rainhill.
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St Helens County Court summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 NOVEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the remarkable cone-shaped privets in Rainford that were stopping the traffic, the seventeen persons that were sleeping in a two-bedroomed house, the maid who was attacked in Ravenhead, the Derbyshire Hill Road watch theft, electricity is set to come to Rainford and the people in the Leonard Street houses in Sutton that said they could hear coal shifting under their feet.
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St Helens police summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 NOVEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the jazz music being played in the Town Hall that disturbed councillors, the Armistice Day service in Victoria Square, the annual police ball, more on the St Helens postal worker that turned to theft through being financially embarrassed, the Australians attempting to lure St Helens folk down under, a debate on the colour bar and the boy in court that was in a poor physical condition.
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Sutton Oak Station summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 NOVEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the talk in St Helens on converting Muslims to Christianity, the mysterious slam-door finger injury at St Helens Station, a review of the local elections that had taken place in St Helens, why the gambling laws penalised the working class, the Post Office thief and the prosecution for wife desertion that failed when it was proved that bigamy had been committed.
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Motor bike riding summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 OCT - 3 NOV 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the politeness between the two St Helens candidates in the general election, a boy's harsh sentence after committing petty theft, the lively scene in Silkstone Street, the council's call to ban pillion riding on motor bikes, a discussion on the expansion of cigarette smoking, the "Sixty Miles An Hour Revue" at the Hippodrome and the lorry that smashed into a Cambridge Road shop.
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St Helens YMCA summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 21 - 27 OCTOBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include why Robin Hood and Oliver Cromwell both figured in a court case, the pioneering Sutton housing estate in which residents bought their homes, the haulage rope death at Ashtons Green Colliery, why the boy of the 1920s was not a swine, the brainless Parr rent theft, the police track down sales of an unlicensed gun and how stolen Echos had been converted into pork pies and cakes.
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Town Hall St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 OCTOBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the difficulties that the forthcoming General Election was causing in St Helens, the Parr poker bashing for spying, the announcement that telephone kiosks are to be installed in St Helens, the landlady in Stanhope Street who was conned, a plan to re-lay North Road is thwarted, the horse being cruelly worked in Corporation Street and the chemical works in Parr set to be demolished.
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