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.
Sefton Arms summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th AUGUST 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the proposal to build a main road between Liverpool and Manchester, a Sutton Manor miner's poem that describes his dangerous and hard job, the desperate Gladstone Street embezzler, the gloom of a wet August Bank Holiday in St Helens, the young man from Tontine Street without any horse sense and the old man walking outside the Sefton Arms in St Helens who slipped into a lorry's path.
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Charabanc summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th AUGUST 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Market Street families that were at each other's throats, the RAF deserter making a pretty penny singing in Oxford Street, a Bold farmer uses a gun pretence to nab two trespassers, the motorbike racers in Dentons Green, the council's plans to expand the market into Tontine Street are abandoned and the strange Sutton Manor story of the piano removal coal man and the frisky horse.
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St Nicholas summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st JULY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the churchyard desecration at Sutton by a grieving family at war, the Langtree Street benefit cheat, the police's 1½-mile chase after a Sherdley Colliery coal thief, the anti-war demonstration in Bridge Street in St Helens, a death at Lea Green Colliery and a couple mark their silver wedding anniversary by separating and throwing dirt at each other in court.
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War memorial summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th JULY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fighting women of Thatto Heath, Parr and Peasley Cross, the unveiling of the Eccleston Lane Ends war memorial that was also dedicated to mothers, the betting craze in Sutton Manor in which husbands were accused of squandering their wages, an update on plans for a Victoria Square war memorial and the result of the St Helens fund to relieve victims of the terrible Russian famine.
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Lowe House summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th JULY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include criticism of the delay in erecting the Victoria Square war memorial, the Sutton workmen's planks that were stolen to make a hen run, the Parr separation case in which a wife accused her husband of starving her, a progress update on the new Lowe House church and the strange story of the umbrella that was lost in Burscough but turned up in Eccleston when a man was hit over the head.
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Carlton billiard hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th JULY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the innovation of paid holidays in St Helens, the numerous motor accidents that were taking place in Victoria Square, the Rainhill Hospital patient who swallowed a six-inch long spoon, the rainy Tradesmen's holiday, the smashing time at the billiard hall, two more raids by suspected Irish extremists take place in St Helens, criticism of the Watery Lane anti-flooding scheme and the boy jam thieves.
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Polly Fenney summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th JUNE - 3rd JULY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include how austerity was leading to the sacking of married women schoolteachers in St Helens, the Bold Heath animal cruelty case, the St Helens MP suffers a personal tragedy, the new Windlehurst council estate that needed footpaths and fences, the bastardy order case in St Helens Police Court and the new wireless depot that was open for business in Westfield Street.
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Scala cinema summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th JUNE 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Sutton councillor tried for perjury, the charabanc driver who was prosecuted for driving at 16 mph, a school baseball league is formed in St Helens, the horse in a shocking condition at a St Helens sale yard, the Duke Street garage in court for leaving a car on the street for just half-an-hour and the man who won the championship of Grange Park Golf Club by playing golf in the driving rain.
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Eccleston church summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th JUNE 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the heavy death toll in the St Helens measles epidemic, the Thatto Heath man who was cursing something cruel, St Helens miners are told they are treated worse than slaves, the illegal Sunday ice-cream sellers in St Helens, the man begging from customers in the Lingholme Hotel who was ordered to leave town and why many married women teachers in St Helens were expecting the sack.
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Sutton Monastery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th JUNE 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the controversial Sutton councillor who the police charged with perjury, a swimming tragedy in Carr Mill Dam, the grenades that boys found stashed inside a Langtree Street railway bridge, the Sutton miner who stole his daughter's cash, the Hippodrome act prosecuted for pavement advertising using a shaving brush and the furiously-ridden horse that knocked down a two-year-old.
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Ashtons Green Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th MAY - 5th JUNE 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the midnight raids on St Helens' explosive stores by Irish extremists, the Parr miner's dirty boots assault on his wife, a review of the May horse parade in St Helens town centre, the stone throwing boys at Rainhill Asylum who smashed two dozen panes of glass, the pitch and toss raid in Pocket Nook and a terrible death down Ashtons Green Colliery when a man fell 300 yards down a shaft.
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