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.
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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Windleshaw Road

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th NOVEMBER 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the man who fell 250 yards down a pit shaft, the first sod is cut on the Pilkington Garden Village, the financial difficulties of Saints, the prevalence of thieving from the Town Hall and the St Helens' theatres, the ungrateful young woman who stole from her aunt in Windleshaw Road, a new football competition is in the Reporter and the policeman who chased down a cyclist in New Street.
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Town Hall

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th Oct. - 3rd Nov. 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the curious case of the tooled up ex-soldier at the Hippodrome Theatre, the cruelty of boys in a Bold farmyard, the "worn-out" Corporation employees wanted as toilet attendants, a suicide in the St Helens Canal, the free health lectures at the Town Hall, the Nutgrove man who defended his wife with a punch and there is a boost for Labour in the first council elections for six years.
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Arthur Ellerington

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th October 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the runaway horse in Bridge Street, a knife attack in Glover Street, how complacency in Clock Face Colliery had taken a man's life, the Clog and Stocking Fund for barefoot children in St Helens, the filthy state of Bold's privies and ashpits, the excitable woman in Higher Parr Street and the Lugsmore Lane bootmaker charged with keeping his shop open after hours.
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Clock Face Colliery

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th October 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drunken sailor who fired a revolver in Park Road, a curious Clock Face Colliery pay mix up, proposed action to remedy the regular flooding in Sutton, the "particularly mean theft" of a watch from a house in Westfield Street, the "loafer of no fixed abode" returns to court, the boom in pastimes within St Helens' parks and the Parr errand boy burglar who stole coppers for sweets.
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