St Helens History This Week

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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.
Ashtons Green Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd MAY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the seemingly insoluble problem of how to make Saints great again, the crop-coal mining tragedy of Glade Hall, the taking of Beecham's Pills supposedly to make men more virile, how the industrial shut-down during the coal strike was benefitting the environment and the Berry's Lane miner who claimed he'd taken a wheelbarrow from Ashton's Green Colliery to stop it being stolen.
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Higher Parr Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th MAY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the riotous scenes in Higher Parr Street, the end of the crop coal being dug in St Helens' old surface mines, the novelty of female magistrates sitting together in St Helens Police Court, the miner who was considered to be the pest of Parr, the St Helens Labour MP James Sexton accuses the government of misleading the public and a series of terrorist attacks takes place in Liverpool.
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Pip Squeak Wilfred summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th MAY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the well-meaning Sutton lottery that led to large fines being imposed, the industrial scale operation by striking miners to illegally dig coal out of St Helens' surface mines, a "what's on" guide at the Theatre Royal and the Hippodrome Music Hall, the strange Prescot lorry painted speed prosecution and the second anniversary celebrations of Pip, Squeak and Wilfred of the Daily Mirror.
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Coal trade peace summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th APRIL - 2nd MAY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the many prosecutions in St Helens arising from the coal strike, the pitiful plight of hungry schoolchildren, a St Helens boy's claim for compensation after injuring a finger at the Prescot Cable Works, the Parr miner who impersonated a man in Ireland in order to obtain some strike pay and Beecham's claim that you can be at your best at forty and thoroughly fit at fifty by taking their pills.
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Atherton Street St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th APRIL 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an update on the coal strike, the perished women tramping the streets who chose the wrong house in Dentons Green to seek shelter, St Helens Ladies football team make history in Birmingham, the Rainhill man who refereed the FA Cup Final between Spurs and Wolves, the violent row in Atherton Street and a comic tale from Lithuania with the headline "Dead Man Jumps from a Coffin".
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St Helens County Court summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th APRIL 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the harsh sentences that were handed out to two gay men for committing gross indecency in St Helens Market, the approval theft of a blouse by a new St Helens bride, the national coal strike leads to Pilkingtons terminating workers' contracts, a charge of cruelly terrifying a performing monkey at the Hippodrome Theatre and the bright idea that an MP had with regard to telephone boxes.
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St Helens police summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th APRIL 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the boys that liked to throw stones at the motor buses driving through Sutton Manor, the controversial police eviction of a former policeman, the ex-soldier unhappy with his pension who smashed the windows of the Town Hall, the young Irishman who walked round St Helens town centre punching people and the case of the fruit merchant who wanted to be all my darling and the stolen apples.
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Telephone call charges Summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th MARCH - 4th APRIL 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the gross act of indecency committed by two men in St Helens Market, extraordinary claims are made of third degree treatment of children at Sutton Police Station, a baby is abandoned in Thatto Heath, the start of a devastating coal strike, St Helens Ladies play another charity game in a packed ground in Dudley and the rising cost of making a telephone call in the Merseyside district.
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Taylor Park St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th MARCH 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a reprise for the wandering hens of St Helens, the boy robbers of Taylor Park, a housing surprise in Rainford, the St Helens domestic servant who was in trouble in Southport, the illegal lottery at St Helens Recs rugby ground, comic George Carney performs at the Hippodrome, why the Oxford Cinema in Duke Street wanted an organist and criticism of the switch to British Summertime.
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Knowsley Hall Summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st MARCH 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the King and Queen's arrival at Knowsley Hall in order to visit the Grand National, a controversial new St Helens Transport Bill is considered in Parliament, a Rainhill referee gets a surprise appointment at the FA Cup Final, the mother brought to book in Prescot for hitting a headmaster and Beecham's advertising campaign that encouraged consumers to pop their pills to ward off illness.
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Canal Vaults Summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th MARCH 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the shell-shocked ex-soldier who stole from a St Helens grocery boss, the Canal Vaults licensee who was said to be in a very queer state, the St Helens newsagents who were accused of carrying too many fireworks, the children's fancy dress ball at the Town Hall, more deaths down coal mines and the fruit man in the market who told police he wanted to be all my darling with them.
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