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.
Hardshaw Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 OCTOBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the wooden blocks that were being laid in Hardshaw Street instead of granite, the father who kicked his son out of the house for being unemployed, the drunken Newton Road man that struck his wife with a pair of tongs, the Lavender dance that was held in George Street and the man that married a woman with thirteen children but walked out after sixteen years.
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Robins Lane, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 SEPT - 5 OCT 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the St Helens violinist robbed in Blackpool, the heavy fine for taking in bets in Brook Street, the Brynn Street woman that scalded a cat but who claimed she could not harm a fly, the boys trespassing on the Blackbrook railway line to watch a football match and the starving family reliant on the part-time earnings of a sixteen-year-old boy because they had not lived in St Helens for a year.
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Junction Lane, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 SEPTEMBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the thieving bicycle brothers from Parr, the petty police prosecution of the Scala Cinema for breaking licensing rules, criticism is made of the town's so-called doleites, the Parr lodging house assault, the new Church Street Arcade that was being built and the Sutton cyclist who said the road was so bad anyone who fell off their bicycle would drown in pools of water.
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Griffin Inn, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 SEPTEMBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the tram conductor assaulted over a halfpenny, the horse attached to a milk float that went walkies, the opening of West Park Grammar School, the magnificent revival of Rainford Sports, the exhausted Liverpool Road landlord who had his clothing destroyed by a drunk and the man who accused a bobby of spending time talking to young women in Liverpool Road.
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Sutton Manor Colliery, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 SEPTEMBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the objectionable dust that was blowing off a dump heap near Parr Stocks Road, the quandary of what to do with a man accused of breaking an old man's leg, the fiery use of fists and tongues by women in Crispin Street, plans for a new maternity home, more on the proposed artificial silk factory in Sutton and the farmer who was killed by his own horse when in Junction Lane.
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Church Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 SEPTEMBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Croppers Hill collision between a pop wagon and a car, the confusing female fight that took place in Bold Street, the artificial silk works that was coming to Sutton, the curious Parr prosecution for sitting on a doorstep, the prisoner taken to the police lock-up in a handcart and the furious Church Street fight in which around thirty spectators had formed a ring.
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Tontine Street St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 AUGUST 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the sound of a noisy motorbike in Dentons Green that was called evil, why strings of motor-coaches were parked around St Anne's Church in Sutton, the apple stealing from the grounds of Rainhill Asylum, the stealing of planks of wood from the United Alkali Company, the dangerous dog from Park Road biting passers-by and the police's Marshalls Cross motor trap.
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Woodcock Street St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 AUGUST 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the father that severely thrashed his son for staying out late at Parr Fair, the Berry's Lane tragedy in which a toddler is suffocated in his cot, the shindy in Pudding Bag between an engine driver and a wife, the hair-raising adventure that took place in Jockeys Brow, the maintenance order defaulters and the wandering horse that went strolling towards the Nag's Head.
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Liverpool Road, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 AUGUST 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the supposedly weak man who indecently assaulted a 13-year-old Sutton Manor girl, the cabbage stealing at Portico, the drunk arrested in Liverpool Road who accused the police of rough treatment, the shabbily-dressed cripple who caused trouble at the White Hart, the grave offence committed against a daughter and the Earlestown charabanc driver who played road games with a newspaper boss.
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Eccleston Parish Church, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 AUGUST 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the plans for the new East Lancashire Road, the August Bank Holiday field days, Black Bob causes trouble at the Salisbury Street lodging house, the bickering neighbours in Hills Moss Road in Sutton, the man who was dubbed a wastrel with a wild gleam in his eye receives hard labour, the Eccleston Church Field Day and the equilibrists that were performing at the Hippodrome Theatre.
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St Helens Parish Church summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 JULY - 3 AUGUST 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the car driver prosecuted for being five minutes late in producing his driving licence, the ridiculous row between neighbours and relatives in Greenbank, the father and son that attacked each other in Grant Street, the abused Higher Parr Street woman accused of using unparliamentary language and a brick from the old parish church is ceremoniously laid on the new one.
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