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.
Motor bike riding summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 OCT - 3 NOV 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the politeness between the two St Helens candidates in the general election, a boy's harsh sentence after committing petty theft, the lively scene in Silkstone Street, the council's call to ban pillion riding on motor bikes, a discussion on the expansion of cigarette smoking, the "Sixty Miles An Hour Revue" at the Hippodrome and the lorry that smashed into a Cambridge Road shop.
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St Helens YMCA summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 21 - 27 OCTOBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include why Robin Hood and Oliver Cromwell both figured in a court case, the pioneering Sutton housing estate in which residents bought their homes, the haulage rope death at Ashtons Green Colliery, why the boy of the 1920s was not a swine, the brainless Parr rent theft, the police track down sales of an unlicensed gun and how stolen Echos had been converted into pork pies and cakes.
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Town Hall St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 OCTOBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the difficulties that the forthcoming General Election was causing in St Helens, the Parr poker bashing for spying, the announcement that telephone kiosks are to be installed in St Helens, the landlady in Stanhope Street who was conned, a plan to re-lay North Road is thwarted, the horse being cruelly worked in Corporation Street and the chemical works in Parr set to be demolished.
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St Nicholas, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 7 - 13 OCTOBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the shocking murder and suicide that took place in Robins Lane in Sutton, the violent row over linnets in Bridge Street, the strange case of grievous bodily harm over a kettle in Salisbury Street, the madcap Milk Street neighbours, the Oddfellows smoking concert in Thatto Heath, Uncle Ben's fountain pen competition and the coming of age party in Kirkland Street.
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Corporation Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 SEPT - 6 OCT 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 17-year-old girl from Hope Street charged with attempting suicide, the flooding in North Road caused by a drop in the road, the Lowe House Carnival featuring gorgeous golden scenic dragons, the telegraph poles that were set to spoil picturesque Bleak Hill, why the price of coal had risen and the boys prosecuted for tearing a poster off an advertising hoarding in Corporation Street.
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Peckers Hill Road, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 SEPTEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the attempted eviction of a bedridden man in Peckers Hill Road in Sutton, the predictions of doom for the small shopkeeper in St Helens, the opening of Providence Hospital's nurses home, a bravery award for a Parr miner who saved a boy from drowning in the St Helens Canal and the clothes stealer the police described as a worthless fellow who was given a harsh prison sentence.
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Bridge Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 SEPTEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the Thatto Heath shop that was used for gambling, the extraordinary Lowe House procession at the opening of the new church grotto, the troublesome Eccleston Street mother-in-law, the motor car without a horn in Bridge Street, Rainford Potteries' new recreation club and the Reporter criticises the evils of sub-letting that allowed people to live in inhuman conditions.
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Liverpool Road, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 SEPTEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the "diddling" of a Liverpool Road ice-cream man through the passing of a counterfeit coin, the Woodbine pinching that took place in Shaw Street, an update on the typhus outbreak in St Helens, the husband who was dubbed a selfish, worthless and drunken fellow and the black-faced undercover bobby outside Havannah Colliery in Parr confronted by a hostile crowd.
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Windlehurst St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 SEPTEMBER 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the verdict in the child murder prosecution that involved a woman living in Sutton, the cool flannel dance that was held at the Co-operative Hall in Baldwin Street, the bagatelle prosecution of the Market Hotel in Bridge Street, the new wooden Moss Bank Village Hall and the two miners that were trapped for three hours under a roof fall at Lea Green Colliery.
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Red Lion St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 AUGUST - 1 SEPT 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an update on the Sutton woman who was accused of child murder, the Boundary Road brothers who fell out over a bike, the Napier Street husband who gave his wife two black eyes, the search for the names of St Helens war dead for the planned Victoria Square memorial, the chalked number plate in Prescot Road and modernity comes to St Helens with wrapped bread on sale.
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Post Office St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 AUGUST 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the workshop for the blind that had been opened at the top of Liverpool Road in St Helens, the double wedding that ended with an accident in North Road, a rare outbreak of typhus kills a child in St Helens, the actress who was prosecuted for leaving her car engine running outside of the St Helens post office and advice on how wireless listeners in St Helens could avoid lightning strikes.
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