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.
Bridge Street St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st March 1919)

This week's stories include the man behaving like a madman in Bridge Street, the St Helens Reporter's warning against communism, a little girl's money making scheme at the Co-op comes unstuck, the "unbearable" state of Church Street, the old men in the cabin at Queens Park, the men caught short in an Ormskirk Street entry, plans for a super-cinema for Bridge Street and how summertime in St Helens began with heavy snow.
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Windlehurst

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

This week's many stories include the pitch and toss players of Fleet Lane, the shortage of whisky for the St Helens' sick, the Bishop of Liverpool hands out spoons to Parr babies, the Church Street rowdies who were told to take a country walk, the noisy King Street footballers, the boy rabbit thieves, a women-only lecture on the prevention of VD and a public inquiry is held into the proposed Windlehurst council estate.
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YMCA St Helens

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

This week's stories include the fatal fall of a telephone wireman at Cannington Shaw, the St Helens Fresh Air Fund, the laughing boy burglars who committed a string of St Helens break-ins, a determined suicide by a Rainhill Asylum inmate, the old woman who went to a police station in order to be a blackguard, parasitic mange in a horse, Pilkington's grand plans for their new Eccleston estate and a Haydock divorce case.
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Green Dragon St Helens

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

This week's stories include a "moral murder" in Watery Lane, the fifty children coal stealing in Ravenhead, the break up of a wartime wedding in Broad Oak, a lorry tragedy in Scholes Lane, objections to proposed police stations in Clock Face and Derbyshire Hill, St Helens Corporation's plans to take over the town's trams, receptions for returned service men and the announcement of a new picture palace for Church Street.
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Alexandra Colliery St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th Feb. - 3rd March 1919)

This week's stories include the Park Road tram terror, teenage "pandemonium" in Church Street, a Parr suicide that post-natal depression might have caused, a father complains of his dead son's treatment in St Helens Hospital, Lennon's bold claim on food prices, the 13-year-old sent to a College Street pub to buy a glassworker ale and the blue man from Chester Lane who was asked in court if he knew there had been a war.
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John Davies

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

This week's stories include the man who behaved "like a lunatic" in College Street, the Thatto Heath burglar who blamed his behaviour on the flu, a tram and a horse-driven coal wagon crash in Duke Street, a toddler drowns in Grafton Street, Lowe House Church plan a war memorial, improvements are planned for St Helens' roads, there's a special presentation to VC winner Jack Davies and the schools are forced to close.
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Church Street St Helens

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

This week's stories include the raid on Church Street "obstructionists", the "deplorable" number of women going to the pub, a police union dispute in which four sergeants were disciplined, a dangerous dog in Parr, a Sutton divorce petition, the severe shortage of homes in Rainford, the bad weather in St Helens, a new Eccleston housing estate and the Clock Face bus gets stuck on the canal swing bridge in Church Street.
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Sutton Bond

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

This week's stories include the identification of the Eccleston Hill skeleton, the Boundary Road man who asked for police protection from his wife, the woman given a "thump on the nose" in Ormskirk Street, the Newton Road brick thrower returns to court, the borough's first council estate, the women whose dole was stopped after refusing to work as housemaids and why hundreds of benches in Lancots Lane were up for sale.
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Lea Green Colliery

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th Jan. - 3rd Feb. 1919)

This week's stories include the murder trial of Annie Houghton who'd carried out an abortion that went wrong, the "evil" theft of coal from Ravenhead Colliery's waste heap, the first girl charged with playing pitch and toss appears in court, a death at Lea Green Colliery, plans are revealed for the borough's first council estate, the St Helens Fire Brigade's annual report and action to improve the health of the town.
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St Dunstans

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

This week's stories include the Parr woman who received a football in the face, a gruesome discovery is made on Eccleston Hill, there's a mysterious death at the Hardshaw Brook chemical works, the police call a Bold Heath woman a "complete nuisance on the road", there's criticism of the housing shortage in St Helens and state of the town's streets and a reception is held in the Town Hall for one hundred former POWs.
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Rainford Church

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

This week's stories include sibling bloodshed in Parr, the poor children's clog and stocking fund, a murderous outburst in Peckers Hill Road, the treatment of venereal disease in St Helens, Rainford's plans for displaying German guns, the boys causing trouble on the town's trams, the men at Prescot Wire Works go on strike, panto week begins in St Helens and the "perversity of human nature" at Ashtons Green Colliery.
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