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.
St Helens Post Office

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th July - 4th August 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the bookies runners in Church Street, the crippled children's annual Eccleston Park treat, Beecham's curious claim that their pills preserved womanly charm, the Grafton Street jangling court case, the boys gambling at the back of the Parrvilion in Jackson Street, a bread strike in St Helens and the incorrigible Annie Murphy is back on the street armed with an umbrella!
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William Colegrove and Henry Bates

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th July 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a shocking case of wife beating, the running of horses down Crab Street, a little boy drowns in the St Helens Canal, an appeal from the Mayor of St Helens for townsfolk to economise on coal, the 50-year-old Moss Bank suit, the young women robbed on the street for a joke, the Vicar of Sutton appears in the Police Court and the idea of putting big German guns on show in Rainford is reprised.
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Peace Day St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st July 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the first regular aeroplane flights from Southport to St Helens, a new bank for Sutton, the ban on Sunday music in the town's parks, the Park Road woman who said her hair was pulled out like feathers and the biggest ever fair takes place in St Helens. In addition the largest section of this week's article describes St Helens Peace Day and its huge parade that celebrated the end of the war.
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Griffin Inn Bold

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th July 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Liverpool Road brute that savagely attacked his wife and threatened to wash her in her own blood, the charabanc man who stole a dog from the Griffin, the Blackbrook woman prosecuted for neglect after her little boy burned to death, a violent scene in the Police Court, the Parr boy who drowned while playing on fields in Park Road and why the Bold pitch and toss man should be ashamed.
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Victoria Park

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 8th July 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a "mean and despicable" theft down a coal mine, the Boundary Road woman who wouldn't keep her mouth shut, a public war memorial is planned for St Helens, the honourable defendant in a child maintenance case, the traders holiday in St Helens, the man who perjured himself in a St Helens court and the Sutton Manor man accused of playing pitch and toss who got his mother to provide an alibi.
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Fothergill

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th June 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the "thoroughly bad lad" from Queens Park, the Parr Street penny beggar, the man who got one in the eye at the Hippodrome Theatre, the death of a St Helens cigarette maker, three "disgusted ex-soldiers" complain about the lack of jobs in the town, the Church Street obstructionists from Haydock, water polo resumes at Boundary Road baths and a Balfour Street benefit fraud.
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St Helens Police

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd June 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the Parr miners that attacked the police in Church Street in front of a 50-strong hostile crowd, the bookie's runner in Pocket Nook, St Helens Engineers return home from the war to a rousing reception, the beggar who asked the police in Canal Street for cash, the Exeter Street eviction of a couple whose son had been killed in the war and Rainford Village's School Treat.
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St Helens Pals

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th June 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Rainhill bigamist who wrongly predicted his prison sentence, the Parr bowling green wastrel, the homecoming of the St Helens Pals, a swimming tragedy at Marshalls Cross, a description of the new Parish Church, the reformed St Helens Glee Club, the Punch and Judy professors, the Queen's Park Carnival and the lads from Parr who were gambling with cards on a Sunday to pass the time away.
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St Nicholas Church

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th June 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the leading St Helens civilian pilot that pioneered flights to Blackpool, the cruel beating of a horse in Knowsley Park, the Silkstone Street gambling school, the "drunk" teetotaller in Cooper Street, street betting for Derby Day in Foundry Street, the Lowe Street squabble, the housing crisis in the town and an Oxford Street housekeeper's fall from the path of honesty.
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Griffin Inn Eccleston

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th May - 2 June 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Cowley Sports Day, the young Parr miners who smoked down the pit, a broken ex-soldier from Sutton demands justice, Providence Hospital's record-breaking Rose Day, the gassed Leonard Street soldier who came home to die, the Eccleston Street brickie who killed himself after thrashing his daughter and the "very nasty" Vincent Street man who knocked about with women of doubtful character.
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Merton Bank Road

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th May 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Scottish piper that gathered alms in Fenton Street, the disturbed ex-soldier from Merton Bank, a child scalding tragedy in Haydock, criticism of plans for German guns to be put on show in Rainford, the banning of Sunday funerals, Providence Hospital's 'Rose Day', Frederick's ice cream for a "little chick", two mining inquests and there is good news for music lovers in St Helens' parks.
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