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.
Marshalls Cross Bridge Summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th FEBRUARY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the smoky steam-powered lorry creating a nuisance at Eccleston Lane Ends, the boys that were tramping for work at Pilkingtons, the St Helens' clubs that were accused of being drinking and gambling dens, the death of a brakesman uncoupling coal wagons at Sutton Manor Colliery and the elderly lady who stepped out in front of a motor bus as the vehicle arrived at Marshalls Cross Bridge.
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Rainford CE School St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th FEBRUARY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the councillor who wanted children in St Helens to be taught peace in school, the longstanding Rainford headmaster who began teaching for threepence a week, convictions for drunkenness in St Helens almost double, the fishy Bridge Street sausage case and the remarkable claim that a woman thief from Chancery Lane in Parr made against her Polish father-in-law.
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St Helens Corporation tram summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st JANUARY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the violent assaults on tram conductors in Haydock that were causing problems with recruitment, the Parr brass band contest that led to an entertainment tax prosecution, it's panto time at the Theatre Royal and the Hippodrome, a most cowardly act with an iron bar takes place outside Pilkingtons and the ex-soldier's fury over women taking men's jobs in factories.
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Georges Carpentier summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Ormskirk Street shop fraudster, the death of a Pilkington boss through a broken leg, a trade slump heralds hard times for St Helens' workers, Sir Thomas Beecham's brother is charged with manslaughter, a drunk performs a war dance on Prescot Road and the man from Prescot whose body lay in the Mersey for two months. And a bonus article on the invention of the helicopter.
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Mount Street summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Royal stay that was planned for Knowsley Hall, the departure of the pioneering St Helens medical officer, the tragedy of the Golborne home alone child, a motor lorry strikes down an elderly lady, the L & C Rubber Company's unusual promotion, Rivington Road Infants are on the look out for a new mistress and the man who calls himself the human gramophone performs at the Hippodrome.
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Chemics St Helens summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include attacks on proposed health measures to stop the spread of infectious diseases, more controversy amongst St Helens councillors over the school leaving age, the wonderful Earlestown cure of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, the 53-shilling made to measure suits on sale at Stewart's The King Tailors and how St Helens might have avoided having huge, ugly waste heaps if a new law had been passed.
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Church Street St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th DEC. 1920 - 3rd JAN. 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the New Year's Day events in St Helens and London, the lads who illegally smoked down Sutton Manor Colliery, a war memorial to the fallen is unveiled at Sutton National School, the unlicensed pedlar in Church Street whose crime sheet covered almost every known crime and the extraordinary horse at the Hippodrome Theatre that mimicked Charlie Chaplin.
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Mirror Christmas summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th DECEMBER 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
In this week's Christmas special the many stories include Higher Grade Girls School's Christmas exhibition of handiwork, how the postal service coped over the festive period, the St Helens Reporter describes how Christmas was spent in the town, the official opening of a new pavilion at Knowsley Road, the educated chimpanzees that performed at the Hippodrome and the Boxing Day children's party in Croppers Hill.
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John Collins summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th DECEMBER 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the man who during a court case called his wife a "dirty, nasty, insulting thing", Lipton's Bridge Street egg bust, St Helens councillors permit children to quit school at 13, a call for a byelaw to be passed to reduce the speed limit in St Helens, the former soldier from York Street charged with attempting suicide and the Market Street woman prosecuted after her child burned to death.
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Lockhart elephants summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th DECEMBER 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the go-ahead at long last for the Windlehurst council house estate, the sad story of Detective Inspector Percy Steer, the starving horse that was left in a stable in Mill Lane in Sutton for six days without food, the police campaign to catch gamblers playing pitch and toss, Lockhart's Famous Elephants headline at the Hippodrome and the newspaper mutilator in Sutton Library.
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Ormskirk Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th NOV. - 6th DEC. 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the terrific storm that struck the town, the Parr toddler that died from a spilt cup of tea, a runaway horse in Haydock, the Rainford mystery of the man killed on the railway, why Sutton folk were in danger of being drowned like rats, the drunken man repeatedly falling over in Ormskirk Street who said he suffered from shell shock and the unfortunate Harris Coonie at the Hippodrome.
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