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.
Church Street newsboys summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5 - 11 JUNE 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Silkstone Street lovers' quarrel in which a woman is slashed in the face, an update on the man charged with attempting to murder his five-year-old niece, the St Helens newsboys that were causing a nuisance on their brakeless bikes, the Vicar of St Helens calls gambling a national disgrace and the 15 people sharing two bedrooms in a house that had 22 panes of glass smashed.
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County Court summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29 MAY - 4 JUNE 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the shocking case of a man's attempted murder of his five-year-old niece, the St Helens MP James Sexton accuses another member of parliament of being a liar, the missing money at Haydock Labour Club, the three deaths from two collapses of underground pit roofs, a three-month-long Mersey mystery is finally solved and the 8-foot high bicycle that visited St Helens.
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Sutton Manor Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22 - 28 MAY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the Silkstone Street lovers' quarrel in which a woman was slashed with a razor, the new houses being built for Sutton Manor miners, the photographic pedlar in Sutton without a licence, the caravan dwellers causing trouble in Thatto Heath, the death of Alderman Charles Bishop and the pitiable drunk at the Sefton Arms Hotel who was told in court that beer and shell shock did not mix.
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Sutton Monastery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15 - 21 MAY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many include the young woman's compensation award for losing fingers in a Cotham Street corn works, Sanger's Circus and wild animal menagerie comes to St Helens, the thorny question of bank holiday pay for Corporation workers, the St Anne's Athletic Sports and Field Day and the horse carrying fruit and vegetables in Napier Street that trembled with pain when a rug was removed from the horse's back.
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Taylor Park summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8 - 14 MAY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the boating tragedy on Taylor Park lake in which a man had a fit, a miner's odd drowning in a shallow Eccleston stream, the Rainford family row over a man's black eye, the university students that helped raise money at Providence Hospital's annual flower day, the glasses that could damage your eyesight and the opening of a new pavilion at St Helens Cricket Ground in Dentons Green.
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St Helens Parish Church summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th MAY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the blind doormat thief that said he was having a game, work begins on building the new St Helens parish church, Labour's great political rally at Carr Mill Dam, the conundrum of getting your luggage to the railway station, a rogue talent agent is sent to prison, one of the worst women in St Helens returns to court and the man nicknamed Liverpool Johnny causes mayhem in Sutton.
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Sutton Park, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th APRIL 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the wife beater from Phythian Street, the conundrum of the unlicensed street trader who couldn't obtain a licence from the police, why St Helens Hospital needed to charge their patients for operations, the bobby that chased a bookie's runner in Fingerpost, the Sutton Park concert by a Parr band and the Crab Street man who was accused of leaving his wife destitute that had a good excuse.
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St Helens tram summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd APRIL 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the burning down of the East Sutton Discharged Sailors and Soldiers Club, the child cruelty by a bereaved husband from Bentinck Street, the reduction in tram fares in the town, the St Helens Crippled Children's Aid Society, an update on the fiendishly brutal stepmother from Elephant Lane and the shortage of paving stone layers that was delaying road improvement work in St Helens.
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Clock Face Colliery, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th APRIL 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Dunriding Lane dust up over a daughter's boyfriend, there are two more mining deaths in the St Helens district, the theft at a Parr pawnbroker's, the formation of the St Helens Rotary Club, another Italian ice-cream seller is in court, Satan's empire falls at the Scala cinema and the men that got up in the early hours of the morning to walk in to St Helens to try and find work.
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St Helens Ladies summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th APRIL 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the paranoid doctor from Cowley Hill Lane who thought the police were watching his home, the Ravenhead housekeeper's tragic suicide, St Helens Ladies footballers triumph against their old rivals, the Windle Motor Company's tractors, the Higher Parr Street man's testimonial for Dr. Cassell's tablets and the Silkstone Street pram stealer who did not want to spend Easter in a cell.
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Westfield Street, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th MARCH - 2nd APRIL 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Westfield Street gas explosion that was caused by a candle, the opening of the St Helens Parish Church recreation ground in Rainford Road, a call for a bye-law compelling the humane slaughter of animals in St Helens, the death of a leading St Helens clergyman, Cholerton's Photo Stores in Bridge Street and the claims of illegitimacy in the Railway Hotel that led to a court case.
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