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.
County Court St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 SEPTEMBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the outcropping coal thieves that were brought to book, the foundation stone is laid for the new Catholic church of St Teresa in Newtown, the striking miners of Lancashire reject a revised offer from their managers, the street that had two hundred people in an uproar, the injured boy at a copper works who was denied compensation and the tearful old man caught taking coal from the bottleworks where he'd been employed for forty-nine years.
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WG Dixon taxis and funerals summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 7 - 13 SEPTEMBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the acrobatic shopbreaking trio of boys, the strikebreaking miners at Southport Colliery in Parr that got stoned on their way home, the disgraceful condition of some council houses only weeks after being occupied, the illegal Haydock drinking den, the Reporter's advertising feature on dance and the Home Secretary criticises MP Joe Tinker's fiery speeches to coal miners in St Helens.
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Thatto Heath Park summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 31 AUG - 6 SEPT 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the children who had been stealing from Thatto Heath Park, the death of a bareback horse-riding miner, the Pocket Nook woman who defrauded the dole, Lennon's Xmas Savings Club, the high cost of removing tram rails in readiness for trolley buses and the St Helens man who brutalised his wife for giving him a hen's egg for his breakfast instead of one from a duck.
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Robb Wilton summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 AUGUST 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the two outcrop mining deaths, the thirteen-year-old thief who spent his ill-gotten gains in New Brighton, the war hero in despair over his missing wife, the shooting through a woman stunt at the Hippodrome, the singing of The Red Flag outside St Helens Town Hall and the crowd of 200 that tried to intimidate the wife of a strike-breaking Sutton Manor Colliery engine winder.
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Sutton Manor Colliery, summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 AUGUST 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the start of the building of the East Lancashire Road, the withdrawal of Sutton Manor Colliery safety men, the Sutton burglar trio are brought to book, the fish that caught a fisherman, the police compassion for a troubled family after a son breaks into the British Legion Club and the railway outrage near St Helens Junction that could have led to a train disaster.
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Greenfield Road, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 AUGUST 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the conman at Saints who claimed to be a famous rugby union player, a boy's brave canal rescue of another boy, the annual St Helens Crippled Children's outing to Southport, the series of break-ins in St Helens, the miners' dispute over safety coal, the Parr miners impromptu carnival, concert and sports meeting that was held in Gaskell Park and the criticism of speeding trams in St Helens.
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Sandy Powell summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 AUGUST 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 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 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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