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.
Eccleston Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th MAY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the youth that prevented a runaway lorry on Crank Hill from causing a disaster, the swan egg stealing by boys at Eccleston Hall Sanatorium, miners complain about damned and hellish conditions down St Helens coal mines, the old soldier's fight in a Bold farmer's field, the comeuppance of ex-copper Samuel Cain and the benefit fraudster trying it on at the Employment Exchange.
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Leg of mutton dam summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd MAY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the St Helens tram romance that had an unhappy ending, trouble for anglers at the Leg of Mutton Dam, the can-kicking crime in Boundary Road, the Nutgrove man's unorthodox means of cleaning his chimney, the dirt-throwing separation case, the miner who stole coal because his children were bad in the house and the pedlar photographer causing a nuisance by shouting in Park Road.
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Tiller girls summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th MAY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a performance by the Tiller Children at the Hippodrome Music Hall, the pedlar girl thief who lived in a caravan at Sutton Moss, the measles deaths in St Helens, the Hall Street divorce case that involved misconduct by the wife, the largesse of the Reporter Man, the "respectably attired" woman involved in a disturbance in East Street and a particularly sad Sutton Manor Colliery death.
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James Sexton summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th MAY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the bizarre experiment that a rubber company undertook on a captive rat, the financial embarrassment of Providence Hospital, the reckless driving of a horse and cart by an old man outside the YMCA, the sarcastic claim of a heinous crime at Thatto Heath railway station and the St Helens MP reckons that workers took too much interest in sport and insufficient interest in politics.
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Charabanc summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th APRIL - 1st MAY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the curious indecent assault in a Bridge Street tailor's shop after a customer took a girl's idle comment literally, the ratepayers' anger over expensive proposals to improve roads in Eccleston, the new charabanc season opens in St Helens, a police sergeant claims wrongful dismissal from the St Helens force and the opening of the new Windle Labour Club in St Helens.
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Bowling Green Inn summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the new-born baby discovered in a Sherdley pond, an update on the building of the new Parish Church, the Parr bookie's runner who complained to the police that he'd been arrested too soon, the poker bashing excuse in Liverpool Street, the future Old Mother Riley performs in St Helens and the St Helens Women's Unionist Association's claim of a politics revolution with women in charge.
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Fleece Hotel summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the cruel mother from North Road in St Helens who beat her child with a poker, St Helens Police criticise unhealthy cinema queues, the busted bobby who cadged cash after claiming that he was still in the force, a circus revue comes to town, the hostile man on the Haydock tram that used filthy language and a war memorial to the St Helens policemen who had died in the war is unveiled.
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Tram summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the man who threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend in Church Street, the illegal betting in Queen's Park, the tragic death of a violinist down Bold Colliery, the overcrowded Sutton Nash Infants school, a gathering at the Volunteer Hall in St Helens in support of the new British Legion and St Helens councillors congratulate themselves on running the second most efficient tramways operation in the country.
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Woodcock Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th MARCH - 3rd APRIL 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the breaking up of a supposed Sutton crime syndicate, the manslaughter case in Eccleston Street, the welcome freeze in the town's rates, the unemployed ex-soldier's suicide on the railway line, the minstrel show at the Hippodrome Music Hall, the St Helens boot sellers, the long streak of lightning in Park Road and the Pudding Bag marriage break up that led to a claim of misconduct.
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St Helens county court summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th MARCH 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include how a Sutton strike-breaker borrowed a revolver in case of bother, two prolific St Helens burglars appear in court, Gentle Annie's window smashing antics in the Swan Hotel in Corporation Street, the town's high level of unemployment leads to a massive rise in Poor Law payments and house possession cases and the state-of-the-art car on sale with non-rattling windows and no hand-crank!
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St Nicholas church summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th MARCH 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the appalling treatment of young females in St Helens' courts for simply being out late at night, the obstructive lorry drivers at Bold who took advantage of a new refreshment facility, the Sutton bigamy case after a hospital romance, the fatal lift-hitching by a woman worker at the Ravenhead glassworks, the Japanese wonder child at the Hippodrome and the capture of an army deserter.
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