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.
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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St Helens Parish Church

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a complaint of Bolshevism in St Helens, more on the Lyon Street rape allegation, the football nuisance and rowdyism in Taylor Park, a Milton Street miner is accused of GBH in the Green Dragon in Sutton Manor, a family fight in Park Road, the Frederick ice cream family return to court, plans to rebuild the fire-ravaged Parish Church and the perils of playing pitch and toss in Bronte Street.
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Old Lane Rainford

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the man from Thatto Heath who refused to do any work, Easter in St Helens, an allegation of rape of a married woman, why St Helens' councillors chose not to raise the school leaving age, a proposal to ban funerals on Sundays, a 15-year-old bread delivery girl has a tragic accident, good news for Moss Nook residents and why there had been a big improvement in school attendance in the town.
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Sherdley Colliery

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the boys who dived down a fanlight to steal from a Park Road shop, the Sutton Manor miner's victim who lost his memory, Sherdley Colliery coal thefts, the many child deaths in St Helens, the Prescot naval deserter bicycle thief, boys in trouble for playing football in the street and obstructing the footpath, Easter adverts in the St Helens Reporter and the Ravenhead Boys Hostel shop thieves.
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John Davies VC

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th April 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a concert in aid of the Clog and Stocking Fund, the St Helens child molester on Runcorn Hill, the three men "intercepting" young women in Church Street, there's a big rise in the rates, the port drinker causing trouble in North Road, John Davies from Peasley Cross receives his VC, the music hall acts at the Hippodrome and there's a large increase in the number of unemployed in the town.
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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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