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.
Griffin Inn Bold

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th July 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Liverpool Road brute that savagely attacked his wife and threatened to wash her in her own blood, the charabanc man who stole a dog from the Griffin, the Blackbrook woman prosecuted for neglect after her little boy burned to death, a violent scene in the Police Court, the Parr boy who drowned while playing on fields in Park Road and why the Bold pitch and toss man should be ashamed.
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Victoria Park

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 8th July 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a "mean and despicable" theft down a coal mine, the Boundary Road woman who wouldn't keep her mouth shut, a public war memorial is planned for St Helens, the honourable defendant in a child maintenance case, the traders holiday in St Helens, the man who perjured himself in a St Helens court and the Sutton Manor man accused of playing pitch and toss who got his mother to provide an alibi.
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Fothergill

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th June 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the "thoroughly bad lad" from Queens Park, the Parr Street penny beggar, the man who got one in the eye at the Hippodrome Theatre, the death of a St Helens cigarette maker, three "disgusted ex-soldiers" complain about the lack of jobs in the town, the Church Street obstructionists from Haydock, water polo resumes at Boundary Road baths and a Balfour Street benefit fraud.
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St Helens Police

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd June 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the Parr miners that attacked the police in Church Street in front of a 50-strong hostile crowd, the bookie's runner in Pocket Nook, St Helens Engineers return home from the war to a rousing reception, the beggar who asked the police in Canal Street for cash, the Exeter Street eviction of a couple whose son had been killed in the war and Rainford Village's School Treat.
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St Helens Pals

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th June 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Rainhill bigamist who wrongly predicted his prison sentence, the Parr bowling green wastrel, the homecoming of the St Helens Pals, a swimming tragedy at Marshalls Cross, a description of the new Parish Church, the reformed St Helens Glee Club, the Punch and Judy professors, the Queen's Park Carnival and the lads from Parr who were gambling with cards on a Sunday to pass the time away.
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St Nicholas Church

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th June 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the leading St Helens civilian pilot that pioneered flights to Blackpool, the cruel beating of a horse in Knowsley Park, the Silkstone Street gambling school, the "drunk" teetotaller in Cooper Street, street betting for Derby Day in Foundry Street, the Lowe Street squabble, the housing crisis in the town and an Oxford Street housekeeper's fall from the path of honesty.
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Griffin Inn Eccleston

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th May - 2 June 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Cowley Sports Day, the young Parr miners who smoked down the pit, a broken ex-soldier from Sutton demands justice, Providence Hospital's record-breaking Rose Day, the gassed Leonard Street soldier who came home to die, the Eccleston Street brickie who killed himself after thrashing his daughter and the "very nasty" Vincent Street man who knocked about with women of doubtful character.
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Merton Bank Road

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th May 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Scottish piper that gathered alms in Fenton Street, the disturbed ex-soldier from Merton Bank, a child scalding tragedy in Haydock, criticism of plans for German guns to be put on show in Rainford, the banning of Sunday funerals, Providence Hospital's 'Rose Day', Frederick's ice cream for a "little chick", two mining inquests and there is good news for music lovers in St Helens' parks.
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St Helens Ladies

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th May 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the lions at the Lowe House Carnival that were made to go through "terrifying evolutions", the Thatto Heath boys that played pitch and toss with an unemployed labourer, the former soldier who wore a filthy uniform in Church Street, the Whiston boys who played with fire, St Helens Corporation's expensive use of horses and the Cooper Street parent who complained about the prosecution of boys.
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Henry Bates James Crooks

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th May 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the revival of the St Helens Fresh Air Fund, Annie Murphy makes her 70th court appearance, plans for a 3-day peace celebration in St Helens, the Lowe House Carnival, 'The Sunday Fairy' children's magazine, the gift of a silver mace to the Corporation by a timber magnate and an ex-soldier from Gerards Bridge who'd been shot through the lungs is charged with wife neglect.
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Henry Bates Michael Hughes

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th April - 5th May 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Thatto Heath fire that gutted a house, the St Helens boy burglars are back in court, there is an extraordinary court battle between the Mayor and Colonel Hughes of Sherdley Hall, the Bell Lane landlady learns an expensive lesson, the railway trespassers near Lea Green, the Morley Street freak chicken, the Sutton bread man's court case and history is made at St Anne's Church in Sutton.
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