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.
Hardshaw Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 MARCH 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the cigarette thief's punishment that his mother could not help him with, the romantic bigamy case in which a man went to war and lost his girl, the Reporter criticises council meetings for being too political, the conman in Hardshaw Street that took advantage of a landlady, the conundrum as how a beggar was able to pay his fine and the man that gave a chap a "slap on the jaw" because he'd heard him make a comment about his "missus".
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Peasley Cross bridge summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 FEB - 2 MARCH 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the flooding at Peasley Cross Bridge that led to two prosecutions taking place, the aliens who were in trouble in St Helens, the St Helens and District Blind Welfare Society's annual concert, two mineworkers are killed down Sherdley Colliery in Peasley Cross, disappointment with the news that the King would not be staying at Knowsley Hall, and the Cooper Street courting and card playing.
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Swing bridge summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 FEBRRUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Sutton boy who was playing football who went through a shop window, the plans to widen the Church Street swing bridge in St Helens, the motorbike accident in Dentons Green in which an alderman had his wall smashed up, the Pilkington boys who denied fighting in Church Street and the rejected application for a music licence for a pleasure fair in Thatto Heath.
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Fleece Hotel, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 FEBRRUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the hundreds queuing outside the Theatre Royal to see Shakespeare being performed, the shoals of scrap paper that were floating onto St Helens Cricket Ground, the neighbourly row in Crank, the railway trespassing in order to watch a solar eclipse, the Hall Street marriage bust up after eight months and the lorry that was using string as part of its braking system.
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St Helens Town Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 FEBRRUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the lorry that crashed into a house in Kitchener Street, the break-in at the Hippodrome Music Hall, the Saturday night disturbance in Silver Street, the council row over a carpet, the man with the heart of a soldier that stole coal, a rebuff for Lowe House Church's cinema plans and a new era in road-making in St Helens begins in which cobblestones are no longer used.
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Sefton Place summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 JAN - 2 FEB 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include another suicide corner prosecution, the packed out Theatre Royal for a play promoting the British Empire, a Duke Street woman brings a breach of promise court action, the plans for a combined May Queen crowning and horse show in St Helens, the closure of Pilkington's Special Hospital and the crash between a tram and a coal cart at the junction of Duke Street and Talbot Street.
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St Helens Parish Church fire summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 JANUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the children in need who failed to qualify for the clog and stocking fund, the Vicar of St Helens shocks his Parochial Council by announcing his resignation, the Marshalls Cross garage fire, the creation of Lowfield Lane, the man accused of being a Peeping Tom in Speakman Road and there’s an update on the bowling greens planned for Victoria Park and the new tennis courts for Sutton Park.
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Higher Parr Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 JANUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the man who threatened to pull a policeman's liver out, Rainford Potteries fancy dress ball and carnival, there's more concern over road safety in St Helens, the sympathy for a shoplifter whose husband the police called a "proper rotter", the curious acts at the Hippodrome and how a Christmas morning raffle of geese in Thatto Heath led to a court case.
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St Helens Engineer Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 JANUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the New Year's Day breakfasts for poor children, the Higher Grade Girls New Year parties, a judge's patience with a Doulton Street tenant wears thin, the man who claimed that his punch up did not cause a disturbance, the opening of Newton Cottage Hospital, the curious freak of nature in Haydock and the lodging out in a Sutton brickworks by a man who was dubbed a recurring decimal.
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Watery Lane, summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 DEC 1924 - 5 JAN 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include Uncle Ben's comments in the Children's Reporter on the Christmas jollifications, the New Year's Eve dance held in Rainford Village Hall, the Water Street woman accused of running a betting house, the man who'd spent 60 years employed by Doultons and the 71-year-old incapable in Higher Parr Street whose excuse was he had no mother to look after him.
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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 fairies round the district's hospitals, the wireless set presented to the patients in Haydock Cottage Hospital, Allanson Street school's Christmas party and the pantomime that was presented at the Theatre Royal.
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