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.
Motor bike summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th FEB. - 6th MARCH 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the furious riding of a bicycle in Thatto Heath that led to a child being hurt, complaints over the muddy approaches to some St Helens' schools, the half-finished Hardshaw playing fields, the Bridge Street window smasher who wanted a bed for the night, the Knowsley Road allotments dilemma, the man with two wives who'd been feeling the pinch and the motor bike revolution in St Helens.
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Junction Lane summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th FEBRUARY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the origins of Nevin's chain of St Helens grocers, the claim in the Scala that millions now living would never die, three St Helens benefit cheats appear in court, a butcher woman's sad suicide, there's concern over a measles epidemic occurring in St Helens and the magistrates pass more criticism of St Helens' businesses for putting temptation in the way of thieves.
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Rainford Village Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th FEBRUARY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Sutton child that died after falling into a pan of boiling water that had carelessly been placed on the floor, the shopkeepers accused of putting temptation in the way of poor folk, the lack of drunks in the St Helens county district, the scheme to improve the state of the streets of St Helens and the house names in Haresfinch Road and Prescot Road that were driving their visitors mad!
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George Shaw summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th FEBRUARY 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a midnight raid in Clock Face, how St Helens planned to mark the wedding of the tomboy princess, the stifling smell of beer in the town's pubs, the decline in drunkenness, a brainless break-in takes place at the Parr British Legion, St Helens cinemas object to the Hippodrome showing newsreels and why the new landlord of the Ram's Head Hotel in Haydock would have plenty of tales to tell.
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Higher Parr Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st JAN. - 6th FEB. 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the deplorable state of the streets of Sutton, the Higher Parr Street man who turned his wife and baby out into the street, the sad pilgrimage of St Helens' families to war heroes' graves, a boy's unusual excuse for stealing coal from Ashton's Green Colliery, plans to alleviate the Moss Nook flooding and St Helens Corporation threatens to cut off the electricity supplies of late bill-payers.
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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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