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.
Overcrowding St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th JANUARY 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Thatto Heath gambling house, the Liverpool Road saucepan assault, the problem of getting tarmac for St Helens' roads, the strange death of a Haydock pit man, the overcrowding of schools and houses in St Helens, the woman that claimed to have lived in purgatory with her husband for 26 years and the Parr chauffeur that got smacked in the face by a rugby ball while driving a car.
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Arthur Ellerington St Helens funeral summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th JANUARY 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Bolshevik barbarian protestors who disrupted a talk by Russian labour leaders at the Co-op, the office cleaner who was crushed to death at Ashtons Green Colliery, the football nuisance in Nutgrove Road, the St Helens Chief Constable's annual report, the Chars-a-Bancs that were available to hire and the Thatto Heath woman who said she would not send her son to school to pick manure.
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Co-op Stores St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th JANUARY 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include fears that Japanese shaving brushes in St Helens might be infected with anthrax, the tragedy of a tram in Robins Lane, a burial mix up takes place at St Helens Cemetery, a claim of persistent cruelty in the Police Court, the public scandal of flooding in Watery Lane, the Haydock hired trap dispute and why the council planned to present a sliver cradle to the Mayoress.
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Peasley Cross Lane St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th DEC. 1919 - 5th JAN. 1920)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the New Year's Eve ball in Croppers Hill, New Year's Day in St Helens, an Albion Street man is charged with bigamy, the indecency in Charles Street that turned into a violent assault on a policeman, the annual poor children's free breakfasts, the man who thrashed his son in front of a policeman and the down on his luck actor who asked a Peasley Cross copper if he could spare a copper.
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Flooding Peasley Cross St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th DECEMBER 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's article from a century ago is a Christmas week special with stories describing the Christmas post, the weather, the "useful" presents in the shops (including the childless wives that were given babies as Christmas presents), the entertainment at the town's theatres and cinemas and all the many sports fixtures with Saints, St Helens Recs (and even Liverpool and Everton) playing three games in three days.
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St Helens Hospital summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd DECEMBER 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include plans for a tank to be installed in Queen's Park, the precocious 13-year-old girl from Leach Lane, a disabled war veteran criticises St Helens' firms, plans to reduce the flooding in Watery Lane, Father Christmas visits the children's wards of Providence Hospital and St Helens Hospital and the man who was tarred in the Lord Nelson by the woman that he'd jilted.
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Westfield Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th DECEMBER 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the remarkable number of cases of VD in St Helens, the hawker who was having a "nice scramble" in Westfield Street, Sutton Manor Colliery attempt to evict tenants, the police's sympathy for a Bold man who'd attacked his wife, a man who'd worked at Sutton Heath Colliery for forty years dies in a roof fall and the corn merchant in Cotham Street who hid his horse from the Government.
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Church Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th DECEMBER 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a robbery at the Wellington Hotel in Naylor Street, the violent end to a wedding party in Corporation Street, plans for two new cinemas in Church Street and Corporation Street, the "abominable nuisance" of Silcock's on Sutton's Show Field, a triumphal memorial to fallen soldiers, the disgraceful condition of St Helens' schools and the lads in trouble for playing tag in Church Street.
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Co-op Stores

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th NOV. - 1st DEC. 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Liverpool Street man charged with attempted murder, the one-legged ex-soldier's marital dispute, the one-footed drunken sailor in Marshalls Cross, Pilkingtons offer a new pavilion to Saints, the Sutton boys who tore timber from a fence for Bonfire Night, the downfall of a schoolteacher's widow and a boy's unmerciful thrashing from his father after accidentally breaking a shop window.
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Beechams Cassells

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th NOVEMBER 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include a claim of baby farming in Westfield Street, the Shaw Street woman prosecuted for taking her child into a pub, the work of the St Agnes Home in Nutgrove for fallen women, the man who said he didn't know that he needed lights on his motorbike and why the town's Electricity Committee was "between the devil and the deep sea" over a proposed purchase of a Swiss generator.
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Baldwin Street

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th NOVEMBER 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the commemoration of the first Armistice Day in St Helens, a rare divorce is granted to a couple from New Street, there's a bizarre Baldwin Street ejectment case, two brothers are charged with stealing coal from Sherdley Colliery, the St Helens Profiteering Committee investigate their first complaint and an unusual Bold Colliery dispute over how a miner went to work comes to court.
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