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.
Bridge Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 SEPTEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the Thatto Heath shop that was used for gambling, the extraordinary Lowe House procession at the opening of the new church grotto, the troublesome Eccleston Street mother-in-law, the motor car without a horn in Bridge Street, Rainford Potteries' new recreation club and the Reporter criticises the evils of sub-letting that allowed people to live in inhuman conditions.
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Liverpool Road, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 SEPTEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the "diddling" of a Liverpool Road ice-cream man through the passing of a counterfeit coin, the Woodbine pinching that took place in Shaw Street, an update on the typhus outbreak in St Helens, the husband who was dubbed a selfish, worthless and drunken fellow and the black-faced undercover bobby outside Havannah Colliery in Parr confronted by a hostile crowd.
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Windlehurst St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 SEPTEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the verdict in the child murder prosecution that involved a woman living in Sutton, the cool flannel dance that was held at the Co-operative Hall in Baldwin Street, the bagatelle prosecution of the Market Hotel in Bridge Street, the new wooden Moss Bank Village Hall and the two miners that were trapped for three hours under a roof fall at Lea Green Colliery.
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Red Lion St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 AUGUST - 1 SEPT 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an update on the Sutton woman who was accused of child murder, the Boundary Road brothers who fell out over a bike, the Napier Street husband who gave his wife two black eyes, the search for the names of St Helens war dead for the planned Victoria Square memorial, the chalked number plate in Prescot Road and modernity comes to St Helens with wrapped bread on sale.
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Post Office St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 AUGUST 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the workshop for the blind that had been opened at the top of Liverpool Road in St Helens, the double wedding that ended with an accident in North Road, a rare outbreak of typhus kills a child in St Helens, the actress who was prosecuted for leaving her car engine running outside of the St Helens post office and advice on how wireless listeners in St Helens could avoid lightning strikes.
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Clock Face Colliery Band St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 AUGUST 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the new-born baby that was discovered in the canal, the runaway trailer in Bridge Street that smashed into a baby's pram, the Clock Face Colliery bandsman who pawned his cornet, the comic account of a Parr coal stealer's thwarted arrest, ten more magistrates are appointed to the St Helens Bench, Tyrer's schoolboy rush and the silly neighbourly squabble in Bramwell Street in Parr.
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Prince of Wales Hotel St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 AUGUST 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the Sutton woman who was accused of murdering a baby in Southport, the boy that died after being thrown into Boundary Road baths, the band of pilgrims' impromptu late-night concert in St Helens, the huge demand for gas stoves, there's another smash at St Helens' notorious suicide corner and the remarkable coincidence when a racing tipster attempted to fool the police.
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Clock Face bike shed St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JULY - 4 AUG 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the bobby that pretended to be a miner in order to catch gamblers, the family of eight that were sleeping in one bed in Prescot, the stealing by finding of a valuable engagement ring in St Helens, the Sutton Manor CE Sunday School field day and sports, the heartless husband that left his family destitute and the Parr man's craze for taking other people's bicycles.
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Hardshaw Street St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JULY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the celebrations during the passing through Prescot of King George V, the strange prosecution of a tram conductor for not wearing his badge, the clouting that took place in Liverpool Road, Rainford Council discuss the meaning of pleasure, the arrested man who was kicking, rolling and scratching in Hardshaw Street and the husband who broke his wife's jaw returns to court.
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Trolley bus, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 JULY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Parliamentary application to run trolley buses in St Helens, the delayed explosion at Sutton Heath Colliery that killed a man, the troubles of the alcoholic meths drinker in Rigby Street, the huge popularity of Boundary Road baths, the rollicking time in Albion Street and the shocking wife beating that a solicitor claimed in court was only a Saturday night tiff.
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Scala, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 JULY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the dawn of the Scala Cinema in Ormskirk Street in St Helens, the open day at Sutton National Girls School, a St Helens woman saves a child from drowning at the seaside, there is a new cinema planned for Rainhill, the Sutton Parish Fete in Sherdley Park, the mothers' resistance to open-air schools and the Liverpool Street man who told a court that wives always had the last word.
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