St Helens History This Week

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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.
Sangers

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the banana robbery in the market, Sanger's Circus and Menagerie perform in Peasley Cross, the Bold farmer who broke the rules on potato wart disease, the "wonderful" rat-trap on display at the Fleece Hotel, the hapless burglar of a Church Street jewellers, the joiners and moulders of St Helens go on strike and a mob threatens the police over a pitch and toss raid in Gerards Bridge.
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Boundary Road Baths

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the man who died while bathing at Boundary Road baths, the Sherdley Colliery coal thief, a fire takes place in St Helens market, the quarrelsome neighbours of Newton Road, Newton's estate agent and auctioneer, Rainford Council wins its battle with the railway company, an auction of the former Knowsley Park military camp and the Parr pit that a miner said had a "gasometer at your nose".
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Gamble Institute

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Corporation's war on rats, an ejectment order for the choosy Vincent Street tenant, the furious driving of a motor car in Higher Parr Street, the Sutton landlord who stole a lodger's watch, the Gamble Institute's evening classes, the last St Helens' military unit returns home from the war and the low Peasley Cross bridge that could decapitate passengers standing up on open-top trams.
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Engine and Tender

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the distribution of the St Helens Heroes Fund, the little girls that damaged spuds on Leach Hall Farm, trouble on a Boundary Road tram, a Saturday night punch up in Bold Street, the "simply scandalous" behaviour at Ravenhead Colliery, a death on the railway line at Pocket Nook and the arrest of the singing collier from Thatto Heath and the three-hundred-strong mob that tried to free him.
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Rainford Village Hall

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th August - 1st Sept. 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include late night violence by two brothers in Crook Street, the Thatto Heath miner who shot his dog and gave it a slow death because his wife aggravated him, an extraordinary case of childbirth in Haydock, night poaching and two days of peace celebrations in Rainford, a theft from the Oxford Picturedrome in Duke Street and the disabled ex-soldier from Borough Road charged with pension fraud.
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Allanson Street

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th August 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the midnight bullyragging in Allanson Street, the Silkstone Street father who was addicted to meths, the Vicar of Ravenhead laments a decline in church attendances, there's juvenile depravity at a Prescot picture house, the man from Oldfield Street who led a double life with a Sutton girl, the boys prosecuted for stealing clover from a field and the Ravenhead boys' card playing mischief.
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Sherdley Rescue Team

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th August 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the youths that slept down Clock Face Colliery, a Traverse Street man's aeroplane flight over St Helens, the Liverpool Road woman who attempted to hit her husband with a flat iron, the Gorsey Lane apple thieves, the miner who took a pipe down Sherdley Colliery, the music hall acts appearing at the Hippodrome, the Clock Face bookie and a Rainford couple's dirty washing is washed in public.
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St Helens Police

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th August 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Parr woman who burned ten pound notes claiming she didn't know what they were, a Kiln Lane pawnbroker calls a policeman a liar, the black flag flown in Eccleston Street on Peace Day, St Helens Police resign from their trade union, a Thatto Heath thumping over an axe, the callous father from Nutgrove and why St Helens' children were taken to Oldham to see a man with a crooked nose.
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St Helens Post Office

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th July - 4th August 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the bookies runners in Church Street, the crippled children's annual Eccleston Park treat, Beecham's curious claim that their pills preserved womanly charm, the Grafton Street jangling court case, the boys gambling at the back of the Parrvilion in Jackson Street, a bread strike in St Helens and the incorrigible Annie Murphy is back on the street armed with an umbrella!
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William Colegrove and Henry Bates

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th July 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a shocking case of wife beating, the running of horses down Crab Street, a little boy drowns in the St Helens Canal, an appeal from the Mayor of St Helens for townsfolk to economise on coal, the 50-year-old Moss Bank suit, the young women robbed on the street for a joke, the Vicar of Sutton appears in the Police Court and the idea of putting big German guns on show in Rainford is reprised.
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Peace Day St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st July 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the first regular aeroplane flights from Southport to St Helens, a new bank for Sutton, the ban on Sunday music in the town's parks, the Park Road woman who said her hair was pulled out like feathers and the biggest ever fair takes place in St Helens. In addition the largest section of this week's article describes St Helens Peace Day and its huge parade that celebrated the end of the war.
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