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.
George Groves Snr summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th JANUARY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include traders' fury over plans for market stalls in Tontine Street, the Rainford man who couldn't get up in the morning returns to court, a veteran Thatto Heath poacher calls it a day, Uncle Ben complains about the wretched weather, the Bridge Street butcher's free pigs, the pantos performed in the St Helens' theatres and the dilemma over cold trams – when does ventilation become a draught?
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Red white and blue pub summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd JANUARY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the simple-minded suicidal Sutton girl who was put into a home, the flooding at Warrington Old Road, the boy who staged a burglary at his own home, the Corporation gravediggers whose stench was considered objectionable obtain overalls, the man who stopped a runaway motor car in Westfield Street, the statue imitators at the Hippodrome and the Colonel and Colonials in City Road.
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Liverpool Road summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th JANUARY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the boy toy thieves who broke into a Liverpool Road shop, the downright lazy fellow from Rainford who liked to lie in bed smoking cigarettes, the Reporter Man's adventures around the town, the Rainford Junction railway robbery, the Higher Parr Street woman's bigamy case, Rainhill's FA Cup Final referee is honoured and the dumbbell brute returns to court to receive his sentence.
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St Helens tram summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th JANUARY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the road widening and improvement schemes planned for St Helens, the disgraceful Sutton flooding around Moss Nook, the brute of a husband from Bank Street who used a dumbbell on his daughter, the illegal Sutton Manor raffle for a doll's house, the remarkable table circus menagerie performing at the Hippodrome and the boy who was birched instead of being sent to an industrial school.
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Victoria Park summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th DEC. 1921 - 2nd JAN. 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the reign of terror by a gang of child bandits, the serious flooding in parts of St Helens, the poor children's New Year's Day breakfasts, how government austerity was threatening a St Helens new mothers milk scheme, the question of allotments in St Helens parks, a man discovered dead in an Eccleston field is identified after two months and a fundraiser for the St Aggie's fallen women.
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Griffins furnishers summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th DECEMBER 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Christmas parties held in St Helens for deprived and disabled children, the many Christmas advertisements in the local papers, Oxley's free portrait of the Prince of Wales, the terrible weather in the town over the festive season, the Christmas Day postal deliveries, the Reporter Man's hearty Christmas reception while out on his rounds and Uncle Ben describes his jolly Christmastime.
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Wellington Hotel summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th DECEMBER 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include complaints from Higher Parr Street residents over vibrations from passing lorries shaking pictures on walls, the West Park hens theft, a Christmas treat is planned for the poorest children of the borough, the Reporter Man goes round the town, more houses on the pioneering Windlehurst council estate are ready for occupation and the Parr girls being prepared for domesticity in the home.
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Hardshaw Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th DECEMBER 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the boy that found a baby's body inside a Croppers Hill dustbin, St Helens Ladies reflect on an FA ban on women's football being played on member grounds, the boy thieves who were caught through examining their ill-gotten gains in Hardshaw Street, the tragic unemployed old man's demise in St Helens Canal and the Russian Pole that moved to St Helens in order to avoid paying income tax.
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Sacred Heart summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th NOV. - 5th DEC. 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the unnecessary lurid details contained within the Stanhope Street divorce case, the bookie heavily fined for running a church lottery, the Church Street stealing by finding of a gold medallion, the special all star matinee at the Theatre Royal in aid of crippled children, the little Indian girls on a world tour who came to St Helens and why Great Britain was losing the toy war with the defeated Germany.
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Robb Wilton summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the woman in a child neglect case labelled a dirty, filthy, useless person, a grisly discovery is made in Eccleston, Saints play the Australian rugby league team at Knowsley Road, St Helens Council's Highways Committee goes green, the famous comic Robb Wilton performs at the Hippodrome and the one-legged ex-miner who the Sutton Heath Colliery Co. was taking to the House of Lords.
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Motor bike racing summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include how a strict family upbringing had led to the Dentons Green birth concealment case, the motorbike in Church Street that was travelling at a big speed, a Peasley Cross bookie is brought to book, the council's Health Committee criticise Jewish animal slaughter methods, how mistaking poison for peppermint cost a man his life and the wandering Spanish alien and his donkey and organ.
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