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.
Sandy Powell summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 AUGUST 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the dramatic rescue of a drowning dog at Gillars Green, the turnip thief in St Helens Hospital's garden, the Russian Pole who stole coal to have some tea, the St Helens girl who attempted suicide by putting her head in the oven, the St Helens MP criticises Parliament's long holiday, the St Helens man who impersonated a vicar, comic Sandy Powell returns to St Helens and the police's night-time vigil off Hawthorne Road to catch coal thieves.
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Ashtons Green Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 JULY - 2 AUGUST 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Ashtons Green Colliery raid, the Band of the Royal Air Force play in Victoria Park, the crippled children's annual tea at Woodlands, the County Court dispute over a motorbike insurance claim, the woman who complained her son used language not fit for a Christian to have to hear and the illegal tree chopping in Bold by eighteen men from Burtonwood in order to have a cup of tea.
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Crank School summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 JULY 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the miner from Parr who tried to use poetry to sell produce from his kitchen garden, the Sutton Moss telegraph pole that was chopped down for firewood, the dreadful attack on a Traverse Street housekeeper, Crank's Rose Queen Carnival, the terrific summer storm, the Gigantic Fair & Carnival in Dentons Green and the woman who was seen as difficult for not wishing to live with her abusive husband.
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St Helens Town Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 JULY 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the arrival of a trackless train in St Helens, the brave man who saved a dog from drowning in the canal, the plans to expand the overcrowded St Helens Town Hall, the nocturnal potato pickers of Blackbrook, why the St Helens MP was not a hypocrite, the woman who lost her memory and the unemployed man forced to pay maintenance to a wife who ran her own business.
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Sherdley Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 JULY 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the prosecution of the Gerards Bridge firewood raiders, a domestic servant brings a breach of promise of marriage case, the mother who stood up for her brutal wife-beating son in court, there's an update on the construction of the new St Helens Parish Church and St Helens Town are ordered to leave the Park Road football ground that they had played on for thirty years.
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Sutton Bond summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JUNE - 5 JULY 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the holding of the biggest meeting that ever took place in St Helens, the dropping of the planned Redgate Bridge widening scheme, the mother's brave canal rescue, the fire at the College Street grocer's, the Dunriding Lane bike storage facility for rugby league fans, the coal stealing from wagons near Pilkington's glassworks and the illegal taking of shrapnel bullets from the Sutton Bond.
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Providence Hospital, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JUNE 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the opening of the new maternity unit and hospital radio service at St Helens Hospital, there's more house building problems for St Helens Council, the two miners charged with theft who spent their strike pay on booze, the blind former Lea Green Colliery miner who was denied compensation in the House of Lords and the annual meeting of Providence Hospital takes place.
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Miners march to Whiston Workhouse summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 JUNE 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the acrobat who committed suicide in the Theatre Royal, the criticism of children who had chip shop teas, the two child scalding deaths, the judge that criticised widows for spending too much on gravestones, the scheme to fix the flooding at Peasley Cross bridge, thousands of St Helens miners march to Whiston and the market stall holder who was prosecuted for assaulting a boy.
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Carr Mill Dam, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 JUNE 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the young thief who claimed he was motivated by hunger, the North Road dog that went after young children, the Royal Italian Circus performs at the St Helens Theatre Royal, the Rainford pigeon racers, the first person to be convicted of committing a crime in the new Parish Church and the plans to build new homes on special foundations to guard against subsidence.
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Croppers Hill Power Station, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 JUNE 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the two children fatally injured while playing on the railway line, the trade union closed shop that was imposed on council workers, the Boundary Road motorbike crash, the tale of two overcoats, the dubious state of Lancashire's roads, the financial cost of the general and miners' strikes and the row over the government being asked to take over the town's electricity works.
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Kirkland Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 MAY 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the man discharged from court because the sun was shining, the Peasley Cross wooden hut on four wheels that broke planning laws, the light sentence for carrying a gun on the streets of St Helens, the thousands scavenging for free coal at St Helens coal mines, the meat safe thief in Toll Bar and the miner that saved a seven-year-old boy from the canal receives a bravery award.
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