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.
Clock Face Colliery St Helens bike shed summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21 - 27 AUGUST 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the bizarre behaviour of a Thatto Heath ghost, the abused wife that stabbed her husband with a knife, the unwanted dog that a father and son threw down an old Whiston mineshaft, the magistrate that told the brother of a young bike thief that he should give him some stick and the contortionist's horse that decided to go walkies in George Street in St Helens in the middle of the night.
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Sutton Manor Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14 - 20 AUGUST 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the death of a haemophiliac bleeder boy from Charles Street in St Helens, the inaugural Sutton Manor Colliery Institute Sports Festival, the strict sanctions on hand-outs for unemployed men, the dog that liked to chase cars in Liverpool Road, a St Helens man watches a tragedy unfold in the sea at Blackpool and the five goats wandering in Hammond Street in St Helens that had a liking for aspidistras.
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Westfield Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7 - 13 AUGUST 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the St Helens shopbreaker that literally went on the run, the Westfield Street marital separation case that resulted in a man's attempted suicide, the St Helens crippled children's outing to Southport, the claim of manslaughter that led to a punch up in a chip shop, another car parking conundrum and the church minister's controversial comments on Sunday sport.
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Thatto Heath Park summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31 JULY - 6 AUGUST 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the dead baby that was discovered in Thatto Heath Park, the proposed conversion of a Parr rubbish tip into a thing of beauty, the St Helens stowaway shopbreaker, the August Bank Holiday Grand Gala and Sports that were held at Rainhill, the improvements that were being planned for St Helens parks and the St Helens MP's gruesome solution to the unemployment problem.
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Sefton Place, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24 - 30 JULY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Italian man who conned a Thatto Heath priest out of £11, the street singer in Corporation Street charged with begging, the abusive man caught playing banker in Parr, a policeman from St Helens is praised for saving a Royal party from calamity, the huge amount of traffic congestion outside the Sefton Arms Hotel and the man behind Old Mother Riley returns to perform in St Helens.
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Griffin Inn Eccleston, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17 - 23 JULY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the huge crowd that watched a fight take place in Water Street, the two young brothers that drowned in the canal at Blackbrook, the two women fighting through an accusation of being a police informer, the men causing a nuisance in Shaw Street while they waited for newspapers to arrive and the desperate need for a mortuary in Eccleston as the landlord of the Griffin tires of taking in bodies.
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Boundary Road Baths, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10 - 16 JULY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the gipsy woman who was accused of committing trickery in Sutton shops, the cheeky pawning of Water Street washing, a call for women to only be taught to swim at Boundary Road baths by married men, the meagre attendance at the Labour party's inaugural summer field day in Bishop Road and the huge crowd in Parr that watched a woman beat up her husband – and a policeman.
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Parr Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3 - 9 JULY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the elderly Knowsley Road man that drowned in the bath with his socks on, the claim that St Helens folk were living on top of each other, the Thatto Heath family row that ended in death, the reckless newsboys furiously riding their bikes, the Rotarians' scheme to boost employment of ex-servicemen and a ban is imposed on Saturday night dances in St Helens Town Hall during the summer.
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Havannah Colliery St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26 JUNE - 2 JULY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the boxer's serious assault on a 12-year-old boy at Parr Fair, the dispute over the Town Clerk's salary is finally resolved, a death at Havannah Colliery, the opening of a new Labour club in Knowsley Road, the ice-cream man's lame horse that struggled up Cowley Hill, the ban on car parking on the streets of St Helens and the Parr mother's knock-out punch through trying to stop a street fight.
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St Helens Hospital summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19 - 25 JUNE 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Thatto Heath card playing that led to two families being at war, two suicides take place in St Helens Canal, the wounded ex-soldier's wife assault, a double tragedy takes place on the Windlehurst council estate, an update on the building of the new Lowe House church, the Peter Street gambling house and the Fleet Lane gun owner who denied that he possessed an unlicensed weapon.
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Victoria Park summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12 - 18 JUNE 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Sutton miner charged with violently chastising his daughter, the lodger-out at the Sefton Arms who cadged his train fare from the Bench, the trial of Ernest Thorley for the attempted murder of his little niece, the domestic servant from Sutton who found herself in trouble in Southport and a complaint that the museum in Victoria Park had been turned into a children's playground on Sundays.
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