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.
St Helens Parish Church summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 NOVEMBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the consecration of St Helens Parish Church, the annual Armistice Day service takes place, the two workers that died after being gassed in Pilkington's Glass Works at Cowley Hill, the boys who broke into a house through a cellar grid, the Labour Party enact their revenge on Alderman Henry Bates, a denial that the coal strike had been called off, the electric fires that were for rent and the curious Prescot Road blackmail case returns to court.
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St Helens Town Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 NOVEMBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the curious Cowley Hill accident, the little girls at Rivington Road School that made allegations against a visiting inspector, the worsening housing situation in St Helens, the man who stole an aerial pole for firewood, the thief who said he would not get justice in St Helens and the man who claimed that police brutality in Sherdley Road had practically made him a cripple.
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Richard Seddon birthplace summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 OCT - 1 NOV 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the extraordinary Prescot Road blackmail case in which a police officer hid in a room, the chocolate stealing boy thieves, the woman who threw a stone in Scholes Lane that struck a policeman's horse, the boy's brave canal rescue, the Tory claim of a Labour reign of terror in St Helens and the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team play St Helens Recs on a full stomach.
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Lowe House Church St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 OCTOBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the controversy over Liverpool policemen stationed in St Helens, the thirty-six St Helens miners arrested for stealing outcrop coal, the tram driver who was charged with negligent driving, the man arrested for booing in Phythian Street, the introduction of Churchill's controversial betting tax and the North Road tobacconist prosecuted for selling cigarettes after 8pm.
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Savoy Picture House St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 OCTOBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the youth who was prosecuted for saying the police were the paid scabs of capitalists, the mysterious death of a Marconi wireless operator who fell out of a train at Thatto Heath, the drift back to work at the pits, the problem of building badly needed homes on land that was subject to mining subsidence and the special constables at Clock Face Colliery who nabbed a violent coal picker.
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Providence Hospital St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 OCTOBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the lifesaving blood transfusion at St Helens Hospital, the Russian in Sutton Manor who said his name was Smith, there's praise for the St Helens Glee Club's founder, the St Helens MP's car crash while on his way to Providence Hospital to lay a memorial stone, the Sutton man that died after being kicked by his horse and the magistrates that bought a hard-up woman a pedlar's licence.
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Rainford Colliery St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 SEPT - 4 OCT 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the dangerous outcrop mine workings, the striking Rainford miners who'd been working on farms drift back to their pits, the popularity of opera in St Helens, the intimidation at Sutton Manor Colliery, the man who claimed St Helens police had bludgeoned helpless men, women and children and the street bookie who used the Emergency Powers Act as an excuse for running away from a policeman.
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Rainford Village Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 21 - 27 SEPTEMBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Lea Green farmer who was in a pickle with his pikel, Lord John Sanger's Circus comes to town, the two little children from Dentons Green who ran away from home, a delay to plans to reduce relief payments to destitute miners' families, the carnival dance in Rainford Village Hall and the wife who claimed her husband showed contempt to her when sober and assaulted her while drunk.
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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 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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