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.
Sutton Manor Colliery St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th January 1919)

This week's stories include the girl pickpockets at the Baldwin Street Co-op, two dreadful deaths down Sutton Manor Colliery, the Blinkhorn Rooms in Sutton, the Vincent Street fire tragedy, the New Year sales in St Helens, a rumpus in the Red, White and Blue Inn in Westfield Street, Ford cars for sale at a Duke Street dealer's, more complaints about the town's poor lighting and flooding in Gerards Bridge and Sutton.
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Henry Bates

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st Dec. 1918 - 6th Jan. 1919)

This week's stories include a double murder and suicide, the severe flooding in St Helens, the little Clock Face girl who died after falling into a bucket of boiling water, why Boys Scouts blew their bugles on New Year's Eve, the meths drinker on the Prescot bus, the Cannington Shaw marble thieves, the Mayor receives the freedom of the borough and the New Year's Day free breakfasts for 2,700 poor St Helens children.
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