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.
Rainford Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th OCTOBER 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the launch of a campaign to elect the first female councillor in St Helens, the lengthy police battle with two violent brothers in Pocket Nook, the shopkeeper from Thatto Heath who sold cigarettes to a 7-year-old boy, the expensive electricity supplies that were on the latest scientific methods and how a scratch on a hand down a Parr pit led to the death of a carpenter.
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Rainhill Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th OCTOBER 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the disabled ex-soldier forced to sing for hand-outs in Sutton Manor, criticism over plans for a public war memorial in St Helens, the Church Street canal swing bridge that was in need of repair, bravery in Blackpool by a young Haydock miner, the sale of a big Rainhill estate and the Thatto Heath man who was prosecuted for not contributing to his son's maintenance in an industrial school.
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Liverpool Road summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th SEPT. - 4th OCT. 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the woman who said she'd spent 27 years of purgatory with her violent husband, the man sent to prison for standing around Prescot Road at midnight, the drunken Eccleston woman's clothes-line thefts, the Prescot brothers who attacked their parents and the Liverpool Road woman who said she had been "knocked about shockingly" after having come to live in St Helens.
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Clock Face Colliery summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the violent Boundary Road woman who pulled down part of her own home, the Clock Face Colliery carpenter who cheated a relative, the ten-year-old Thatto Heath thief who was sent to an industrial school for six years, the toddler that drowned in a water-filled pit at Windle City and the angry St Helens excursionists abandoned at Chester races who sued a Crab Street charabanc firm.
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YMCA summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Irish mob in Bridge Street, the stifling Boundary Road baths, the violent drunk "swinging along" North Road, there's some good news about infant mortality in St Helens, the postponed gala of the Sutton Sunday School takes place in Sherdley Park, the hornless gramophones in Church Street and a war memorial to Sutton Young Men's Bible Class is unveiled at St Nicholas Church.
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YMCA summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include trouble at Parr Labour Club, the baby suffocated in Lyon Street through overcrowding, the Robins Lane house conundrum, the girl housebreakers of Gladstone Street, the violent lodger of Fingerpost, a visit to St Helens from Pilkingtons factory in France, the Edward Street girl whose father said was extremely violent when crossed and the great anti-profiteering campaign in Duke Street.
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Buzz Along summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st AUG. - 6th SEPT. 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a claim of profiteering by a Church Street café, St Helens Ladies play a charity match in Morecambe, Beechams want to know if newspaper readers are "only middling", a review of the music hall turns at the Hippodrome, the record-breaking fairy melange 'Buzz Along' at the Theatre Royal and there are some extraordinary stories published in the strike editions of the Liverpool Echo.
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Thatto Heath Park summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th AUGUST 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Oldfield Street man who deserted his wife because he objected to her smoking in bed, the boy who hid stolen cash in an outhouse roof, the Hardshaw Street horse that was covered in large sores from head to tail, the two-roomed house occupied by eighteen adults, the Universal Bazaar's Christmas Club and concern in St Helens about the school leaving age being raised to fifteen.
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Pathe Hippodrome summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd AUGUST 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the violent Central Street drunk whose police battering saved him from prison, the Parr woman who hit her husband over the head with a clog, the St Helens public's violent reaction to brown sugar, the town's Labour Party attack Winston Churchill, a miners' meeting in the Thatto Heath Empire, a gallant rescue in Scotland by a Cowley Street man and the dilemma of where to park your car.
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Rainford Hall Crank summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th AUGUST 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the crippled children's annual treat in Eccleston Park, a Rainford cow goes on a wander to Ormskirk, the Hammond Street man who refused to make maintenance payments to his separated wife, the "Spanish Prisoner" swindle in St Helens, the brainless theft of a wallet in the Ship Inn in Church Street and the young woman from Foundry Street who accused the police of swearing her life away.
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Tossing Testros summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th AUGUST 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the resolution of the Nelson Hotel glassing case, the ex-bobby charged with a serious stabbing, the impossible happening of Sutton Brook catching fire, the boy burglars of Stanhope Street, serious road subsidence takes place in Liverpool Road, the unusual acts performing at the Hippodrome Theatre and the man from Micklehead Green who wanted his 23-year-old daughter to go into a home.
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