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.
Citadel summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 APRIL 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the old man's suicide in the workhouse, a robot called Radiana appears at the Hippodrome Theatre, Rivington Road school have a wireless set installed, the scalding death of the toddler son of a Saints star, the unusual council election that was held in Rainford, the bang-bang nuisance in Greenfield Road and the paralysed man from Gerards Bridge wrongly accused of playing pitch and toss.
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County Court St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 APRIL 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the dog attack on a Prescot boy, the obstinate Whiston tenant that threatened bloodshed if he was evicted, the case of the husband alleged to have given his wife five black eyes in twenty months of marriage returns to court, the sentencing of the Higher Parr Street ear biter and the mother of a boy suffering from Saint Vitus Dance that died in Rainhill Asylum accuses attendants of assault..
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Corporation tram St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 MARCH 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a Higher Parr Street assault in which parts of a man's ears were bitten off, a curious marital separation case caused by a wife refusing to return money to her husband, the memorial hall at St John's Church in Ravenhead, the Reporter's claim that advertising signs disfigured the countryside, there’s another prosecution for attempting suicide and the Rainford platelayer's reward for saving a train.
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Sutton Park, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 MARCH 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the treatment available for defective children at school, the food and milk support on offer for pregnant women and new mothers, the three trains that bumped into each other at St Helens Station, the Parr caravan dwellers that were caught by the police playing banker and the pressure that a court placed on a young wife to return to live with her brutal husband.
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Peckers Hill Road, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 MARCH 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the music licence dilemma for Carr Mill Dam, the chance nabbing of a Sutton shirt thief by an eagle-eyed policeman, the worker at St Helens Colliery that cheekily helped himself to some coal, the violent beggar in Church Street that attacked a policeman, the two women fighting in Lyon Street in St Helens but who kept quiet in court and the West Park Catholic Grammar School's lottery prosecution.
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Junction Lane, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 MARCH 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the animated throng in Rainford Village Hall, the house merry-go-round in Junction Lane in Sutton, what the St Helens MP thought of women being allowed to vote at 21, the miner at Sutton Heath & Lea Green Collieries charged with bigamy and the man who claimed to behave like a gentleman who punched his girlfriend in the face because she could not take a walk with him.
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Ashtons Green Colliery St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 FEB - 3 MARCH 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the conman that stole money given to help the unemployed, the theft from Jimmy James' dressing room in the Theatre Royal, the separated husband's claim that his wife drank too much, the breadman in Hardshaw Street in trouble for not possessing any scales, the St Helens lad that the Labour Exchange helped send to Australia and why PC Parr arrested a woman in Parr for shouting "ey up".
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Red Lion St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 FEBRUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the complications that were caused by the housing crisis in St Helens, the burning tragedy of a Gerards Bridge schoolgirl, the unhelpful publicity given to a young Peter Street couple's marital troubles, the singer accused of begging for alms that was ordered to quit town and it is last orders for the historic Red Lion Hotel – but there's a new Nags Head pub in the works.
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Sefton Place St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 FEBRUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drunken father from Rainford who said he refused to be chicken-pecked, another crash takes place at St Helens' suicide corner, the troubles of two young men in trying to have a fight in the town, the marbles stolen from Nuttalls bottleworks, the escapologist performing at the Hippodrome Theatre and the bizarre kidnapping claim by the collector for a Duke Street clothing firm.
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Providence Hospital St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 FEBRUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Silkstone Street man's attempted suicide after three years of unemployment, the scheme to encourage people to buy their own homes rather than rent, the results of Uncle Ben's limerick contest, the policeman who was supposedly suffering in the Boilermakers Arms and the prosecution for putting up a lean-to building without planning permission from the council.
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St Helens tram summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JAN - 4 FEB 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Parr woman who threatened to put a bread knife through her neighbour's gizzard, the Italian ice-cream hawker trading without a permit, the boys' Sunday mischief at Hardshaw Brook, the planned improvements to Boundary Road baths, the troublesome boy that slept in a midden and why a motorist's wrinkled wick had left him without a rear light in Prescot Road.
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