St Helens History This Week

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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.
Chaplin the Kid summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th OCTOBER 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the unruly scenes as Communists and counter-Communists clash in St Helens Town Hall, the alcoholic woman who was found to be saturated in spirits, the wife and niece-beating Westfield Street tobacconist, Charlie Chaplin's highly-rated film 'The Kid' comes to two cinemas in St Helens, Rainford's first public market opens for business and Lord Derby unveils Rainhill's war memorial.
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Sexton Brighouse summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th OCTOBER 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the dastardly attack by Communists on the St Helens' MP's motorcar, the motorbike road racing in Eccleston, the 15-year-old from Leeds on the run in Rainford, an update on the appeal to find the mother of the abandoned Rainford baby and the tragedy of the desperate out of work miner who accidentally drowned in St Helens Canal while attempting to flee from the police after stealing coal.
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Plaza summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th OCTOBER 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the baby abandoned at the side of a busy road in Rainford, there's a settlement of the Clock Face relief work dispute, more street betting takes place in Sutton, the Oxford Picturedrome's serial thriller, the turns performing at the Hippodrome, a coroner criticises St Helens' roads as unfit to cope with heavy motor wagons and the pawnbrokers in Liverpool that had never had it so good.
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St Helens County Court summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th SEPT. - 3rd OCT. 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the illegal St Helens Junction market, the St Helens miner who wanted to pay a compensation fine over 14 years, the St Helens rats that were resistant to poison, the stalemate in St Helens Corporation's work relief programme, the cinema for lunatics at Rainhill, a rare freeze of the St Helens' rates and how the unemployment crisis was leading to increased child poverty in Liverpool.
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Tommy Handley summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a vicar's report on a meeting of Communists in Thatto Heath, flower stealing at St Helens Cemetery, the boys that placed sentries round the market while stealing from stalls, the St Helens MP takes on Bolsheviks, Tommy Handley performs at the Hippodrome, the boy raids at Grange Park Golf Club and the unemployed men on the Clock Face work relief scheme march on St Helens Town Hall.
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Ernie Proudlove summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Rainford sisterly row after the housing crisis led to 6 people sharing the same bedroom, the Thatto Heath miner who refused to look after his family, the Borough Road tenant's foolish refusal to pay all her rent, the street betting raid in Hall Street, the low level of dole money for the unemployed and a brutal police assault on peaceful protestors inside Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery.
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St Helens Ladies summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a warning of starvation through the dire unemployment situation in St Helens, the biker accused of riding like a madman in Eccleston Street, the pub and beerhouse opening hours are revised, St Helens Ladies travel to Burnley, the disturbing revival of the Ku Klux Klan, a series of boxing contests in the Volunteer Hall and the painful case of the pregnant St Helens servant at Blackpool.
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Alexandra Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th AUG. - 5th SEPT. 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the bombshell bigamy admission that was made in a St Helens court, a stormy meeting takes place between unemployed men and the Mayor of St Helens, the stealing by finding on a lorry at Islands Brow, the Portico Lane farmer who admitted diluting his milk, the long-serving head teachers of St Helens and how a failure to use safety equipment down a St Helens colliery cost a man his life.
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R38 airship summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th AUGUST 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens survivor of an airship disaster over the Humber, the high speed motorbike testing down North Road, the female musical pioneer appearing at the Theatre Royal, provisional 1921 census results are released, the claim that Sutton men streamed out of work every lunchtime to bet with bookies and the practice of auctioning off parts of Blackpool beach to the highest bidder.
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Bold Bridge summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd AUGUST 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include a family dispute in Sutton over a Sunday suit, the Elephant Lane housing dispute, the motorbike death crash at Bold Bridge, the special trains and charabanc trips to Haydock Park, the St Helens Charity Sports are held at St Helens Recs football ground in City Road and why the cats of Thatto Heath had enjoyed a scrumptious weekend after entering a burgled shop.
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Parr Stocks Road summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th AUGUST 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the crippled pedlar of Borough Road's knife attack on a fellow lodger, a son's sham burglary of his father's house in Parr Stocks Road, the two-year-old boy left home alone in Whiston who was run over by a train, the death is announced of the outspoken St Helens solicitor Jeremiah Haslam Fox and the diatribe of the chauvinistic author who said women were completely incapable of ruling.
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