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.
Clock Face Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th SEPTEMBER 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the mother and daughter con artists with bogus bank books, a serious accident in the building of a Prescot cinema, an improvement in the St Helens economy, the mysterious death of a Clock Face Colliery worker, the debate on the exact location in Victoria Square of the proposed war memorial and the unemployed accused of hogging the old men's hut in Queens Park.
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Edith Hughes summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th SEPTEMBER 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the opening of the first car park in St Helens, the donkeyman in court for exposing his donkeys for hire in the street, the death of Edith Hughes of Sherdley Hall, another unemployed man commits suicide in the Ravenhead Dam, the profitable betting house in Lee Street, the pitman that fell down the shaft at Sherdley Colliery and the pinching of St Helens Corporation water by steam lorries.
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Peasley Cross Bridge summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th SEPTEMBER 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Co-op's bread short-measure dilemma, the daughter and dad betting operation in Phythian Street, the severe storm that struck St Helens, the boys that were obstructing the railway line at Marshalls Cross, the man with impulsive insanity who threw a stone through a police window and the St Helens MP accuses the government of causing "idleness, misery, privation, and starvation."
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Sexton summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th AUG. - 4th SEPT. 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the man who tied himself up before committing suicide, more on the plans to build a main road between Liverpool and Manchester, a motorcycle accident takes place in Greenfield Road, the bird race to St Helens from Bath, the Nine Little Tiddleywinks perform in the Hippodrome Theatre and the clerk who ran off to London with a 19-year-old woman and the £100 contents of a cash box.
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Great Carmo summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th AUGUST 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the gay young sparks causing a nuisance in Church Street, the greatest wonder in Europe comes to St Helens to cure the sick, the chestnut mare in Ward Street that was nothing but a bag of bones, the strange excuse for driving a fast charabanc, the Co-op bakery in Eccleston Street is destroyed by fire and the wild animal illusionist called The Great Carmo performs at the Hippodrome.
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Town Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st AUGUST 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the harsh treatment of those accused of being benefit cheats, the expansion of Grange Park Golf Club, why the bad August weather in St Helens was saving young lives, the so-called Gentle Annie returns to court charged with lodging out, an illustration of the proposed new war memorial for Victoria Square and the paperboys on bikes that were racing to get their Echos out on the streets.
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Sefton Arms summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th AUGUST 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the proposal to build a main road between Liverpool and Manchester, a Sutton Manor miner's poem that describes his dangerous and hard job, the desperate Gladstone Street embezzler, the gloom of a wet August Bank Holiday in St Helens, the young man from Tontine Street without any horse sense and the old man walking outside the Sefton Arms in St Helens who slipped into a lorry's path.
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Charabanc summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th AUGUST 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Market Street families that were at each other's throats, the RAF deserter making a pretty penny singing in Oxford Street, a Bold farmer uses a gun pretence to nab two trespassers, the motorbike racers in Dentons Green, the council's plans to expand the market into Tontine Street are abandoned and the strange Sutton Manor story of the piano removal coal man and the frisky horse.
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St Nicholas summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st JULY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the churchyard desecration at Sutton by a grieving family at war, the Langtree Street benefit cheat, the police's 1½-mile chase after a Sherdley Colliery coal thief, the anti-war demonstration in Bridge Street in St Helens, a death at Lea Green Colliery and a couple mark their silver wedding anniversary by separating and throwing dirt at each other in court.
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War memorial summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th JULY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fighting women of Thatto Heath, Parr and Peasley Cross, the unveiling of the Eccleston Lane Ends war memorial that was also dedicated to mothers, the betting craze in Sutton Manor in which husbands were accused of squandering their wages, an update on plans for a Victoria Square war memorial and the result of the St Helens fund to relieve victims of the terrible Russian famine.
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Lowe House summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th JULY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include criticism of the delay in erecting the Victoria Square war memorial, the Sutton workmen's planks that were stolen to make a hen run, the Parr separation case in which a wife accused her husband of starving her, a progress update on the new Lowe House church and the strange story of the umbrella that was lost in Burscough but turned up in Eccleston when a man was hit over the head.
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