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.
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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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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