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.
Higher Parr Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 JANUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the man who threatened to pull a policeman's liver out, Rainford Potteries fancy dress ball and carnival, there's more concern over road safety in St Helens, the sympathy for a shoplifter whose husband the police called a "proper rotter", the curious acts at the Hippodrome and how a Christmas morning raffle of geese in Thatto Heath led to a court case.
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St Helens Engineer Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 JANUARY 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the New Year's Day breakfasts for poor children, the Higher Grade Girls New Year parties, a judge's patience with a Doulton Street tenant wears thin, the man who claimed that his punch up did not cause a disturbance, the opening of Newton Cottage Hospital, the curious freak of nature in Haydock and the lodging out in a Sutton brickworks by a man who was dubbed a recurring decimal.
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Watery Lane, summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 DEC 1924 - 5 JAN 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include Uncle Ben's comments in the Children's Reporter on the Christmas jollifications, the New Year's Eve dance held in Rainford Village Hall, the Water Street woman accused of running a betting house, the man who'd spent 60 years employed by Doultons and the 71-year-old incapable in Higher Parr Street whose excuse was he had no mother to look after him.
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Rainford Village Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 DECEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Rainford Potteries Christmas party, the Reporter's Uncle Ben sends his Christmas greetings to his "loyal little pals", Prescot B.I. send Father Christmas and fairies round the district's hospitals, the wireless set presented to the patients in Haydock Cottage Hospital, Allanson Street school's Christmas party and the pantomime that was presented at the Theatre Royal.
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Eagle and Child summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 DECEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the tragic death at the Royal Alfred Hotel, the St Helens man's dole fraud while working for the Employment Exchange in Liverpool, the husband who preferred his dog's company to his wife's, the Duke Street thieves that attempted to make their getaway on a tram, the new maternity block that was planned for St Helens Hospital and the Sutton Manor man for whom it never rains than it pours.
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Ashtons Green Colliery, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 DECEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Lyon Street family row involving pokers, the man who claimed he had been poaching because he needed a pair of boots, the amateur talent show at the St Helens Hippodrome, the bags of coal that fell off a lorry in Moss Bank, it's announced that electricity would be coming to the whole of Parr and the curious case of the maintenance order and the illegitimate Sutton child.
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Providence Hospital, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 DECEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Parr woman who used a trick to steal from children, the shocking death in a Haydock coal mine after a pit cage was lowered in error, the Christmas parties that would now be available to all St Helens schoolchildren, the desperate need for homes in St Helens, Cholerton's special wireless headphones offer and the Church Street clothier that advertised that they had no rubbish to sell.
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Croppers Hill St Helens power station summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 NOV - 1 DEC 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the fan light that fell on to a Church Street shop's customer, the election shindy that took place in Napier Street, the bowling club for women, the frank love letters that were read out in a court case, the electricity promotion published in the Reporter and the sacred concert at the Hippodrome Theatre in aid of the spiritual breaks that were held at Loyola Hall in Rainhill.
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St Helens County Court summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 NOVEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the remarkable cone-shaped privets in Rainford that were stopping the traffic, the seventeen persons that were sleeping in a two-bedroomed house, the maid who was attacked in Ravenhead, the Derbyshire Hill Road watch theft, electricity is set to come to Rainford and the people in the Leonard Street houses in Sutton that said they could hear coal shifting under their feet.
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St Helens police summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 NOVEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the jazz music being played in the Town Hall that disturbed councillors, the Armistice Day service in Victoria Square, the annual police ball, more on the St Helens postal worker that turned to theft through being financially embarrassed, the Australians attempting to lure St Helens folk down under, a debate on the colour bar and the boy in court that was in a poor physical condition.
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Sutton Oak Station summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 NOVEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the talk in St Helens on converting Muslims to Christianity, the mysterious slam-door finger injury at St Helens Station, a review of the local elections that had taken place in St Helens, why the gambling laws penalised the working class, the Post Office thief and the prosecution for wife desertion that failed when it was proved that bigamy had been committed.
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