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 tram summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JAN - 4 FEB 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Parr woman who threatened to put a bread knife through her neighbour's gizzard, the Italian ice-cream hawker trading without a permit, the boys' Sunday mischief at Hardshaw Brook, the planned improvements to Boundary Road baths, the troublesome boy that slept in a midden and why a motorist's wrinkled wick had left him without a rear light in Prescot Road.
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Globe hotel summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JANUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the baby's body that was dumped in Silkstone Street, the one-eyed coal miner's compensation payment, the Sunday afternoon raid on a banana warehouse, plans for the new Globe Hotel in Hardshaw Street, why Rainford was proving to be an excellent place to live, the effects of the railway strike on St Helens commuters and the man that shot himself in the heart through a row over furniture.
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Sutton Park summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 JANUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the violent husband in Green Street who behaved like a madman, the young worker who was crushed to death by a machine at Prescot, the plans to install hard tennis courts in Sutton Park, the Eccleston Lane Ends biscuits fraud, the thieving Donkey Gang at St Helens Junction are brought to book and the St Helens MP complains about disabled or sick ex-soldiers from WW1 denied army pensions.
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Fleece summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 JANUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the high rate of infant mortality in St Helens, the family strife in Recreation Street that led to a woman being attacked, the boy scalped by a train near the Sherdley Glass bottleworks, the neglected Sutton horse that was kept in two feet of filth, the violent beggar wanting a copper outside the police station and the domineering dad from Doulton Street appears in St Helens Police Court.
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St Helens Town Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 JANUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the New Year's Day breakfasts for poor children, the Sutton Manor man who was accused of being an habitual criminal, the Park Road poker row over unemployment, the bad state of the town's roads, the Haydock woman that died after falling down the stairs, a young man is killed in an electrical hoist at Pilks and the body of a new-born child is discovered on wasteland in Sutton.
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Providence Hospital summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 DECEMBER 1923

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include how Christmas was spent in the town's hospitals, the Christmas Circus that was performing at the Hippodrome, the issuing of the Sherdley dole for the poor old folk of Sutton, the Christmas Day tragedy at St Helens Junction station, Father Christmas visits Rainford in a fairy-like sleigh and the man that bet £5 on a rugby game but refused to give his wife and children maintenance.
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Griffins Furnishers summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 DECEMBER 1923

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Christmas Party for the children of the unemployed in St Helens, Zellini the human chimney performs at the Hippodrome with his smoking mechanical dog, the tug-of-war at the Clock Face Institute's Sports that led to a broken wrist and a court case, the Rigby Street garage fire, the rules for dancing at church socials in Parr and the thorny question of allotments is again considered.
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Peasley Cross bridge summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 DECEMBER 1923

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Mayor of St Helens' plans for another Christmas party for the children of the unemployed, the Lea Green Colliery pit accident that was caused by an engine winder turning a lever the wrong way, the Peasley Cross bridge shower bath, more on the housing crisis in St Helens, the British Legion Club's lottery prosecution and the New Year's Day breakfasts for the poor children of St Helens.
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Charlie Chaplin The Kid summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 DECEMBER 1923

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include more details of the brutal iron bar attack on a mother and daughter in Sutton, a woman stands for the first time in a General Election in St Helens, the raving madman that smashed up his home but was leniently treated in court, the mystery female artiste performing at the Hippodrome and the woman car driver who was praised for her skill in preventing an accident.
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Ryalls and Jones St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27 NOV - 3 DEC 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the poachers terrifying farmers in Eccleston, the Merton Bank widow's life insurance theft, the plan to rebuild the Sefton Arms to give road users more room gets the green light, the St Helens Parish Church Men's Bible Class anniversary, the lorry driven at very high speed at Eccleston Lane Ends and the unlucky hawker who picked the house of a policeman to flog lino without a licence.
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Universal Bazaar St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20 - 26 NOVEMBER 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the heartless character who travelled the world leaving his family destitute, the illegal betting in Sutton Library, the story of the Russian Pole and the pawned watch, the exhausted horse in Park Road pulling a four-wheeled caravan, the illegal playing of a tin whistle on the streets of St Helens and Father Xmas comes to St Helens to marry Old Mother Hubbard.
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