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.
Green Dragon, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 MAY 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include a report on the ending of the General Strike in St Helens, the humour that was displayed by shopkeepers during the strike, six Haydock miners appear in court for breaking the emergency regulations, the tram accident that occurred at the foot of Croppers Hill, the escapes from a house fire in Prescot, the elderly woman who fell out of her bedroom window in Sutton and the drunken Sutton Manor miners badly beaten by the police.
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Greenfield Road, St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 MAY 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories feature many reports concerning the General Strike, the call for volunteers to maintain vital services, the threat by a trade union to shut down the town's electricity and gas works, the Bank Holiday in St Helens, the washout start to the cricket season, the violent bookie in Parr Stocks Road, the polite policemen that were operating speed traps and there is a defence of the young women of St Helens.
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Eccleston Parish Church summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 APRIL - 3 MAY 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the bigamous marriage at Christ Church in Eccleston, the preparations for a miners' lock out and general strike, the disabled children that were being supported in St Helens, the scheme of free home nursing for contagious diseases, the Bold Street attack on the police and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill annoys some St Helens' church leaders with his new gambling tax.
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Parr Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 APRIL 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the barefooted Greenbank kids passing on bets, the fifty Irishmen that fought a dozen police in Parr Street, the Sutton Sheeting Sheds strike over short-time working, the youth who was killed by a horse on a Rainford farm, the famous Edward Dunstan Company and George Formby separately perform in St Helens and the two widows of a dead miner that claimed compensation.
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James Sexton MP, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 APRIL 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include Parr's disgusting rag picking scandal, a reprieve for the Abbotsfield Road poison gas tenants, the wayward boy in Bold who was disowned by his parents, the plans to extend St Helens Town Hall, the Parr Moss tenant who claimed he put a hole in his roof to rescue a cat and the widow denied the right to use her own compensation money to take a holiday in Blackpool.
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Mansion House, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 APRIL 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Parr father's lifesaving blood transfusion, the drowning in Taylor Park lake, the middle-aged man that collapsed and died in the Scala Cinema, the St Helens bikers' motorbike tragedy at Birkdale, the boy's brainless office theft, a child is saved from drowning in the St Helens Canal and an update on the planned eviction of the one hundred Sutton poison gas cottagers.
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Town Hall St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 MARCH - 5 APRIL 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the unveiling of the St Helens War Memorial in Victoria Square, the woman who caused a commotion in the St Helens County Court, the boy accused of stone throwing at a train in Clock Face who had an alibi, the dispute over a Windleshaw Road house, the Parr mother who lost five sons in the war and the man who had been dubbed a recurring decimal makes his 55th appearance in court.
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Horse St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 MARCH 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the strange anomalies in house-building in St Helens, the man with a wooden leg that liked to drink and fight returns to St Helens Police Court, there's a comical call for the German Kaiser to be banished to St Helens, the opening of the new extension to the St Helens power station on Croppers Hill and the Parr farmers who decided to use sulphuric acid to treat their sore horse.
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Rainford Village Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 MARCH 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the blind Lea Green Colliery worker who sought compensation, the Gerards Bridge tenant who threatened to kill Pilkington's housing agent, the father's shock at seeing bobbed hair that led to a suicide, the Rainford School annual concert, the district nurses annual meeting and the Vincent Street ex-soldier and boot store manager who committed suicide after being gassed in the war.
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Greenfield Road, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 MARCH 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the speed trap for motorists in Greenfield Road, the College Street bridge collapse, the Rotary Club's Wireless for Hospitals fund, the comical case of the motorbike that wouldn't start, the woman who in court said her dog was only an apology for a fox terrier, the two wife desertion cases and the Parr coal man's attack on a customer who wouldn't pay his bill.
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Canal Vaults, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 MARCH 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the injured Haydock miner's failed attempt at extending his compensation payments, the many motor vehicle dealers in St Helens selling cars and motorbikes, the ex-soldier's suicide in an Eccleston lake, the solicitor's complaint about the poor facilities in St Helens Police Station and why it was going to be last orders at the Black Horse, The Mill Stone and the Red Rat pubs.
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