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.
George Groves conductor summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK THIS WEEK 31 MARCH - 6 APRIL 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the couple's indecent act near Rivington Road that led to a court case, the game of rugby that was being played on the streets of Cowley Hill, the attempt to fleece a cabman out of his fare, the St Helens Orchestral Society's charity fundraising, a decline in the number of Easter charabanc trips, the woman covered in blood who had been kicking up a bit of a bother and the 11-year-old who stole lead flashing from a chemical works to go to the pictures.
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Roughdales, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 MARCH 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the swingboat assaults that took place in Sutton, the adulteration of milk in St Helens, the shortage of bricks in a brickmaking town, the foxtrot contest held at the Hippodrome, the carrot and stick approach to defaulting maintenance payers, a public telephone is proposed for Eccleston and the father and son that were fighting on their doorstep in Lascelles Street.
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Sefton Place, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 MARCH 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the new name for the dangerous suicide corner in St Helens, the motorbike that was on fire in Corporation Street, the tally fraud at Lea Green Colliery, the woman who was attempting to kick in the door of a Greenbank pub, the Ten Loonies return to perform in St Helens, the punch up in Thatto Heath and the 6-year-old boy who was severely injured by stone throwing.
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Hall Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 MARCH 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the sentimental Irish star at the Hippodrome who was a bit of a phony, the battered wife who said her husband drove her to take poison, the new Catholic Mission at Sutton Manor, the fluffy chicken in an Easter egg that choked a little girl, the fine for not sounding a horn in Boundary Road and there are signs that the flush toilet could be coming to Rainford – but not steel houses.
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Hardshaw Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 MARCH 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the cigarette thief's punishment that his mother could not help him with, the romantic bigamy case in which a man went to war and lost his girl, the Reporter criticises council meetings for being too political, the conman in Hardshaw Street that took advantage of a landlady and the man that gave a chap a "slap on the jaw" because he'd heard him make a derogatory comment about his "missus".
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Peasley Cross bridge summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 FEB - 2 MARCH 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the flooding at Peasley Cross Bridge that led to two prosecutions taking place, the aliens who were in trouble in St Helens, the St Helens and District Blind Welfare Society's annual concert, two mineworkers are killed down Sherdley Colliery in Peasley Cross, disappointment with the news that the King would not be staying at Knowsley Hall, and the Cooper Street courting and card playing.
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Swing bridge summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 FEBRRUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Sutton boy who was playing football who went through a shop window, the plans to widen the Church Street swing bridge in St Helens, the motorbike accident in Dentons Green in which an alderman had his wall smashed up, the Pilkington boys who denied fighting in Church Street and the rejected application for a music licence for a pleasure fair in Thatto Heath.
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Fleece Hotel, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 FEBRRUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the hundreds queuing outside the Theatre Royal to see Shakespeare being performed, the shoals of scrap paper that were floating onto St Helens Cricket Ground, the neighbourly row in Crank, the railway trespassing in order to watch a solar eclipse, the Hall Street marriage bust up after eight months and the lorry that was using string as part of its braking system.
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St Helens Town Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 FEBRRUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the lorry that crashed into a house in Kitchener Street, the break-in at the Hippodrome Music Hall, the Saturday night disturbance in Silver Street, the council row over a carpet, the man with the heart of a soldier that stole coal, a rebuff for Lowe House Church's cinema plans and a new era in road-making in St Helens begins in which cobblestones are no longer used.
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Sefton Place summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 JAN - 2 FEB 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include another suicide corner prosecution, the packed out Theatre Royal for a play promoting the British Empire, a Duke Street woman brings a breach of promise court action, the plans for a combined May Queen crowning and horse show in St Helens, the closure of Pilkington's Special Hospital and the crash between a tram and a coal cart at the junction of Duke Street and Talbot Street.
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St Helens Parish Church fire summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 JANUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the children in need who failed to qualify for the clog and stocking fund, the Vicar of St Helens shocks his Parochial Council by announcing his resignation, the Marshalls Cross garage fire, the creation of Lowfield Lane, the man accused of being a Peeping Tom in Speakman Road and there’s an update on the bowling greens planned for Victoria Park and the new tennis courts for Sutton Park.
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