St Helens History This Week

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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.
John Davies

IOO YEARS AGOIOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th February 1919)

This week's stories include the man who behaved "like a lunatic" in College Street, the Thatto Heath burglar who blamed his behaviour on the flu, a tram and a horse-driven coal wagon crash in Duke Street, a toddler drowns in Grafton Street, Lowe House Church plan a war memorial, improvements are planned for St Helens' roads, there's a special presentation to VC winner Jack Davies and the schools are forced to close.
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Church Street St Helens

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th February 1919)

This week's stories include the raid on Church Street "obstructionists", the "deplorable" number of women going to the pub, a police union dispute in which four sergeants were disciplined, a dangerous dog in Parr, a Sutton divorce petition, the severe shortage of homes in Rainford, the bad weather in St Helens, a new Eccleston housing estate and the Clock Face bus gets stuck on the canal swing bridge in Church Street.
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Sutton Bond

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th February 1919)

This week's stories include the identification of the Eccleston Hill skeleton, the Boundary Road man who asked for police protection from his wife, the woman given a "thump on the nose" in Ormskirk Street, the Newton Road brick thrower returns to court, the borough's first council estate, the women whose dole was stopped after refusing to work as housemaids and why hundreds of benches in Lancots Lane were up for sale.
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Lea Green Colliery

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th Jan. - 3rd Feb. 1919)

This week's stories include the murder trial of Annie Houghton who'd carried out an abortion that went wrong, the "evil" theft of coal from Ravenhead Colliery's waste heap, the first girl charged with playing pitch and toss appears in court, a death at Lea Green Colliery, plans are revealed for the borough's first council estate, the St Helens Fire Brigade's annual report and action to improve the health of the town.
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St Dunstans

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th January 1919)

This week's stories include the Parr woman who received a football in the face, a gruesome discovery is made on Eccleston Hill, there's a mysterious death at the Hardshaw Brook chemical works, the police call a Bold Heath woman a "complete nuisance on the road", there's criticism of the housing shortage in St Helens and state of the town's streets and a reception is held in the Town Hall for one hundred former POWs.
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Rainford Church

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th January 1919)

This week's stories include sibling bloodshed in Parr, the poor children's clog and stocking fund, a murderous outburst in Peckers Hill Road, the treatment of venereal disease in St Helens, Rainford's plans for displaying German guns, the boys causing trouble on the town's trams, the men at Prescot Wire Works go on strike, panto week begins in St Helens and the "perversity of human nature" at Ashtons Green Colliery.
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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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