St Helens History This Week

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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.
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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St Helens charabanc summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th NOVEMBER 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a man's brutal attack on his wife in Abbotsfield Road in Clock Face, the day of reckoning for the thieving Ravenhead hostel lads, the planned widening of the town's roads, how comedian Will Hay fared at the Hippodrome Theatre, the motor bus revolution in St Helens, a death down Clock Face Colliery, Henry Slinn's wallpaper shop and the Sinn Feiner fracas in Boundary Road.
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Tank summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd NOVEMBER 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the striking St Helens cloggers, the brass plaque for the Queen's Park tank, more Pilkington hostel boys find themselves in trouble, the rapturous rhythms of a new waltz are demonstrated at the Town Hall, an auction at the old Sutton Bond munitions works in Lancots Lane and why riding on the pillion of a motorbike was labelled a dangerous and reprehensible practice.
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Church Street St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th NOVEMBER 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Glaswegian sailor who jumped through a police station window, the Wilson Street couple accused of impersonating voters, how motor vehicles interrupted the marking of Armistice Day, Rainford council want to create a recreation ground, complaints at an inquest about poor street lighting in St Helens and there's good news about the Windlehurst council estate.
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Sandfield Crescent summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th NOVEMBER 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Mount Street house that was said not to be fit for a pig to live in, the man who gave evidence for his mate in court against his own wife, the strange stealing of fence posts in Ravenhead to allow illegal coal mining to take place, plans to extend the Esperanto language in St Helens and the illiterate scissors grinder who was accused of being a benefit cheat.
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Hardshaw Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th OCT. - 1st NOV. 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the comeuppance of the Boundary Road wife-beater, the alleged influence of Lenin in the St Helens local elections, the scandal of the thieving newspaper man, the first female councillor is elected in the borough, the man that threatened his father in Hardshaw Street, there are more motor traffic accidents in St Helens and two women battle it out in Liverpool Road.
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Taylor Park summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th OCTOBER 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the domestic servant's brainless theft in Cowley Hill Lane, a young woman's dreadful accident at St Helens station, the battling Sinn Feiner in Corporation Street, the labourer from Exeter Street who kept a stray dog that he threw stones at, the contingency plans for a long coal strike, the summer activities in the St Helens' parks and the grand reopening of the Hippodrome Music Hall.
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