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.
Sutton Park, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th APRIL 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the wife beater from Phythian Street, the conundrum of the unlicensed street trader who couldn't obtain a licence from the police, why St Helens Hospital needed to charge their patients for operations, the bobby that chased a bookie's runner in Fingerpost, the Sutton Park concert by a Parr band and the Crab Street man who was accused of leaving his wife destitute that had a good excuse.
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St Helens tram summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd APRIL 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the burning down of the East Sutton Discharged Sailors and Soldiers Club, the child cruelty by a bereaved husband from Bentinck Street, the reduction in tram fares in the town, the St Helens Crippled Children's Aid Society, an update on the fiendishly brutal stepmother from Elephant Lane and the shortage of paving stone layers that was delaying road improvement work in St Helens.
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Clock Face Colliery, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th APRIL 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Dunriding Lane dust up over a daughter's boyfriend, there are two more mining deaths in the St Helens district, the theft at a Parr pawnbroker's, the formation of the St Helens Rotary Club, another Italian ice-cream seller is in court, Satan's empire falls at the Scala cinema and the men that got up in the early hours of the morning to walk in to St Helens to try and find work.
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St Helens Ladies summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th APRIL 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the paranoid doctor from Cowley Hill Lane who thought the police were watching his home, the Ravenhead housekeeper's tragic suicide, St Helens Ladies footballers triumph against their old rivals, the Windle Motor Company's tractors, the Higher Parr Street man's testimonial for Dr. Cassell's tablets and the Silkstone Street pram stealer who did not want to spend Easter in a cell.
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Westfield Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th MARCH - 2nd APRIL 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Westfield Street gas explosion that was caused by a candle, the opening of the St Helens Parish Church recreation ground in Rainford Road, a call for a bye-law compelling the humane slaughter of animals in St Helens, the death of a leading St Helens clergyman, Cholerton's Photo Stores in Bridge Street and the claims of illegitimacy in the Railway Hotel that led to a court case.
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Duke Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th MARCH 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the slippery milk spill at St Helens station that led to a court case, the young women of St Helens perform a workout for the Mayor, Rainhill's top football referee is forced to retire, the Greenbank woman that was accused of making a racket about spousal abuse, the Duke Street boy's day off dilemma and the 20-year-old St Helens woman who was sent to a girls home for sleeping out at Southport.
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St Helens Hospital summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th MARCH 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the French actor's indecent act against a woman on a St Helens train, the man that was gassed to death at the St Helens Smelting Works, a foundation stone for the new Lowe House church is laid, the proposed new maternity block for St Helens Hospital, the Raleigh bike that was guaranteed to last for ever and Silcocks are accused of breaking gaming laws at their Napier Street funfair.
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Sutton Manor Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th MARCH 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the marauding cats and dogs on the new Windlehurst council estate that were causing a nuisance, the former army huts that homeless Sutton Manor miners were occupying, the St Helens Town Clerk is sacked for refusing to take a pay cut, the unfairness of the means-tested old age pension and the Thatto Heath man that was accused of being a "drunken, lazy fellow".
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School Brow, Rainford summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th FEB. - 5th MARCH 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include an appeal for St Helens butchers to humanely slaughter their animals, the Hippodrome Theatre moves towards becoming a dedicated cinema, the pioneering vocational training centre in St Helens, the farmer's kind consideration for his horses (but not his workers!) in the Rainford snow and why the St Helens brigade that attended a huge fire at Penketh were told they had to go home.
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St Helens County Court summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th FEBRUARY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the violent water polo player at Boundary Road baths who was sued in St Helens County Court, the wholesale shopbreakers from Eccleston are sentenced at the assizes, the truth about the violent Cooper Street mirror woman, the husband that deserted his family pays a very heavy price and the curious disappearance of the tobacconist's traveller from New Street in Sutton.
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Fleece Hotel summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th FEBRUARY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the five-shilling cost of being a boy in St Helens, the beggar that asked for money at a policeman's house, St Helens miners protest over plans to make them work longer hours, the wireless set problem at Windlehust, the woman who bashed her husband over the head with a mirror and the town hall officials finally agree to a pay cut – but with a notable exception.
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