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.
Peasley Cross Bridge St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 NOVEMBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the Sutton boy who stole money to buy a birthday present for his father, the death of Alexandra the Queen Mother who came to St Helens in 1865, the window smashing case of the drunk leading the blind, the Parr coal stealer who said she'd learnt her lesson, the Peasley Cross Bridge flooding is back on the agenda and the wireless radio set for listening to the BBC's Children's Hour.
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St Helens fire brigade summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 NOVEMBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the scarlet fever outbreak that was taking place in Rainford, the rent by auction of a butcher's stall in St Helens Covered Market, there's criticism of the perpetual Peasley Cross flooding, the row at a fairground in St Helens Junction, the piece of human driftwood in Parr and how the use of the telephone and motor vehicles had improved the efficiency of the St Helens Fire Brigade.
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Duke Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 NOVEMBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the St Helens contribution to the proposed East Lancashire road, the Duke Street car dealer selling vehicles with four-wheel brakes, the St Helens Reporter puts a brave face on the council election results, the Bold Street bother between neighbours, the West End smash No No Nanette comes to St Helens and the Bickerstaffe Street woman who attacked her bedridden husband.
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Town Hall, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 OCT - 2 NOV 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the problems of building houses in subsidence-ridden Sutton, the use of a tramcar as an old men's shelter in Taylor Park, the brutal Sutton Manor miner who struck his wife with a bar out of the gas stove, the building of 100 steel-framed houses, the man suffering from shellshock who turned his home into a betting house and the coal stealing youths from Phythian Street.
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Clock Face Colliery St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 OCTOBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Sunday bird catching in Parr, St Helens Health Week begins, the attempted hold up in the Victoria Hotel in Rainhill, the woman who was fined £50 for receiving bets, the funeral of Councillor Bell takes place, the Duke Street court bust-up that ended in a score draw in St Helens Police Court and the Clock Face Colliery miner that died months after being hurt in a mining accident.
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Peckers Hill Road, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 OCTOBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the suicide of a Sutton councillor and grocer because of unpaid debts from customers, the disgusting scavenging of rags that was taking place in Parr, the noisiest woman in St Helens appears in court to shout at the top of her voice, the campaign to persuade people of the benefits of using electricity and what was claimed to have been the worst case of benefit fraud is committed in St Helens.
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Hardshaw Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 OCTOBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the wooden blocks that were being laid in Hardshaw Street instead of granite, the father who kicked his son out of the house for being unemployed, the drunken Newton Road man that struck his wife with a pair of tongs, the Lavender dance that was held in George Street and the man that married a woman with thirteen children but walked out after sixteen years.
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Robins Lane, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 SEPT - 5 OCT 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the St Helens violinist robbed in Blackpool, the heavy fine for taking in bets in Brook Street, the Brynn Street woman that scalded a cat but who claimed she could not harm a fly, the boys trespassing on the Blackbrook railway line to watch a football match and the starving family reliant on the part-time earnings of a sixteen-year-old boy because they had not lived in St Helens for a year.
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Junction Lane, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 SEPTEMBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the thieving bicycle brothers from Parr, the petty police prosecution of the Scala Cinema for breaking licensing rules, criticism is made of the town's so-called doleites, the Parr lodging house assault, the new Church Street Arcade that was being built and the Sutton cyclist who said the road was so bad anyone who fell off their bicycle would drown in pools of water.
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Griffin Inn, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 SEPTEMBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the tram conductor assaulted over a halfpenny, the horse attached to a milk float that went walkies, the opening of West Park Grammar School, the magnificent revival of Rainford Sports, the exhausted Liverpool Road landlord who had his clothing destroyed by a drunk and the man who accused a bobby of spending time talking to young women in Liverpool Road.
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Sutton Manor Colliery, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 SEPTEMBER 1925

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the objectionable dust that was blowing off a dump heap near Parr Stocks Road, the quandary of what to do with a man accused of breaking an old man's leg, the fiery use of fists and tongues by women in Crispin Street, plans for a new maternity home, more on the proposed artificial silk factory in Sutton and the farmer who was killed by his own horse when in Junction Lane.
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