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.
Providence Hospital, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JUNE 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many 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, the street bookie that the police chased for 2 miles around Windlehurst and there’s the annual meeting of Providence Hospital.
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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 troublesome 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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County Court, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 MAY 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the man that liked to steal ladders and dodge rail fares, an appraisal of the miners' strike in St Helens, the injured colliery worker who was told to undertake heavy lifting, the Penlake Lane disturbance when strikers refused to allow volunteers to collect bedding from the railway stores and the Ashcroft Street woman who complained she was threatened night and day by her husband's children.
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Green Dragon, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 MAY 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a report on the ending of the General Strike in St Helens, the humour 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 elderly woman who fell out of her bedroom window in Sutton and the drunken Sutton Manor miners who were 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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