St Helens History This Week

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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.
Fleece Hotel summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th FEBRUARY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the five-shilling cost of being a boy in St Helens, the beggar that asked for money at a policeman's house, St Helens miners protest over plans to make them work longer hours, the wireless set problem at Windlehust, the woman who bashed her husband over the head with a mirror and the town hall officials finally agree to a pay cut – but with a notable exception.
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Boundary Road baths summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th FEBRUARY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the proposed forced pay cuts for Town Hall officials, the St Helens contribution to building the new Liverpool to Manchester main road, the inquiry into making Boundary Road Baths more efficient, the brainless lodger in Marshalls Cross, the Sutton flood relief scheme gets the green light, wireless sets in public houses and the Hardshaw Street joiner's accident at an alkali works.
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Parr Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th JAN. - 5th FEB. 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the police raid on a Parr Street betting house, the Sutton Manor fake safe robbery by a man at his wit's end, the capture of a wholesale St Helens shopbreaker, the bizarre police stake out over four days at Sutton Post Office, the depressed ex-miner from Raglan Street in St Helens who cut his throat and the shocking story of the three children that had been forced to sleep with their dead mother.
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Bridge Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th JANUARY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the wicked stepmother of Thatto Heath who violently abused a 13-year-old girl, the filthy language used to young women on a Rainhill tram, the girl shoplifters in Bridge Street who were working for their mothers, the 30-year-old emaciated horse that was sold to a St Helens hawker, the Clock Face Colliery pit shaft scare and prolific vagrant Gentle Annie has to have her stomach pumped out.
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Rainhill Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd JANUARY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the young man that fell into a vat of boiling water at a brickworks, the strange "good night" fracas in Arthur Street, a tribute to Rainhill's top referee, the despicable Lowe Street conman who pretended to be a prison warder, the sale of Rainhill Hall to a Jesuit society, the tree planting at the new Windlehurst council house estate and an electric wizard performs at the Hippodrome music hall.
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Westfield Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th JANUARY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the ex-soldier's suicide in the Eccleston Mill Dam, the man who claimed that workers pilfering from building sites was commonplace, the St Helens sweet shop raids by a gang of boys, the abusive Westfield Street tobacconist, the miners that stole each other's tools and the tragedy of the Crank man too poor to make his own fireguard whose child burned to death.
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Sherdley Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th JANUARY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the severe Sutton floods that led to a clergyman being wound up into a bedroom window, the cheating bankrupt haulage contractor of Lowe Street, the poor children's New Year breakfasts, St Helens Council calls for the ending of vaccination exemptions, the mass coal stealing from Sherdley Colliery and the Eccleston flying club official accused of embezzling members' money.
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Engineer Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th DEC. 1922 - 1st JAN. 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Sutton Manor Colliery official's embezzlement, the Thatto Heath Labour Club raid, the Christmas shopping trip that turned into tragedy, the story of the raving madman and the Tontine Street teapot, the stealing of two bob by mis-delivery, an appeal to parents to not let their boys quit school upon reaching 14 and the many insanitary houses that could not be demolished.
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Alexandra Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th DECEMBER 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the poor children's Christmas party, the female bigamist who asked her husband for a certificate of freedom, Father Christmas visits the St Helens hospitals, the two 13-year-old girl shoplifters that deserved to be soundly birched, the children involved in a St Helens gambling house and the fun that the workers at Rainford Potteries had with blindfolds and geese at their Christmas party.
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Boundary Road Baths summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th DECEMBER 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Town Hall meeting about the mental defectives in St Helens, the upgrade planned for Boundary Road baths, the boy who died after a cross-country run, the men involved in sheep stealing at Crank, the RSPCA honour a policeman that risked his life to save a dog and Cholerton's photographers shop in St Helens announce that BBC broadcasting has commenced.
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Cowley Schools summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th DECEMBER 1922)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the horse that was ridden in Parr with a fractured pelvis, the female schoolteachers forced to resign upon getting married, the man who accused a policeman of pecking him in the neck in Water Street, there's more light for some dark St Helens streets, the unemployed St Helens miners faced with eviction and the vicious Church Street attack by a man who thought he was killing the devil.
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