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.
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 return to St Helens of comic Robb Wilton, the shooting through a woman stunt at the Hippodrome, the singing of The Red Flag outside St Helens Town Hall, the thieving from Woolworth's store and the crowd of 200 that tried to intimidate the wife of a 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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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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