IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 OCTOBER 1925
This week's many stories include the Sunday bird catching in Parr, St Helens Health Week begins, the attempted hold up in Rainhill, the woman fined £50 for receiving bets, the funeral of Councillor Bell takes place and the Duke Street court bust-up that ended in a draw.
This week was St Helens Health Week in which many promotional events took place and which had begun with a meeting at the Savoy Cinema on the preceding Sunday. The Reporter described a crowded attendance, which they said underlined the importance that the people of the town felt towards promoting health. However, the numbers would have been boosted by the fact that there were few alternative distractions. No television, of course, and, as it was a Sunday, no theatre performances or cinema screenings were permitted.
Much was made of the fact that St Helens was considered a very progressive town when it came to matters of health. And significant improvements had been made, with the death rate and infantile mortality rate having both been halved since 1900. But still 1 in 10 new-borns would die in St Helens at a very young age.
On the 20th Patrick Gleavy appeared in Prescot Police Court charged with using a revolver to attempt a hold-up at the Victoria Hotel in Rainhill. It was a strange story as the young man had never been in trouble before and came from a respectable family. Patrick's sister sat in the courtroom crying as the magistrates heard how her brother had supped a few glasses of beer at the Victoria and then pulled out a gun.
The young man attempted to rob the safe but he was tackled by a member of staff and overpowered. The revolver turned out to be unloaded and not in a working condition but the brave hotel man called Williams did not, of course, know that. Upon being sentenced to two months in prison with hard labour, Patrick Gleavy collapsed in the dock and his sister wept even louder.
Earlier in the month at a St Helens Town Council meeting, it was decided that Hardshaw Street would be reconstructed using wooden paving to make it quieter when traffic passed through it. That was despite granite being cheaper and longer lasting. Councillor Ellison, the Chairman of the Highways Committee, had said: "Hardshaw-street is entitled to preferential treatment. It is a street devoted to clerical work, and noise is disturbing. If we can afford to place wood blocks in front of places of worship when they are only used on Sundays, we can stretch a point with regard to Hardshaw-street."
On the 21st at a meeting of the Highways Committee it was revealed that the Vicar of St Mark's, the Rev Taylor, had been reading newspaper reports of the decision and learnt that other churches in St Helens had wood paving outside – but his did not. And so he had written to the committee requesting such paving be used in the roadway outside his North Road church. The answer Rev Taylor received was that wooden blocks had been placed outside other churches when their roads were being made up and the next time North Road was being altered, consideration would be given to incorporating wood outside his church.
On the 22nd the funeral of William Bell of New Street took place. The councillor and tradesman had hung himself inside his lock-up grocer's shop in Peckers Hill Road after suffering from depression through being owed £1,000. The Reporter wrote:
"The funeral took place amid the most impressive manifestations of sympathy at St. Nicholas' Church, Sutton, yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. Long before the solemn service was timed to commence the roads and approaches to the churchyard were thronged with people and there were strings of taxis and motors in attendance."
There were more convictions this week for keeping larks and linnets in such tiny cages that the birds were not able to fully extend their wings. A couple of weeks ago Inspector Negus of the RSPCA had told the Police Court that a large number of persons in St Helens trapped birds on Sundays.
The chemical waste heap at Parr was, apparently, a popular place for such bird catching. They were caught by scattering birdlime on grass and inserting their captured quarry into tiny cages. The birds would then be taken away to sell and even though protests were made that keeping them in a small space was only temporary, the catchers were still fined 5 shillings.
Prosecutions for receiving bets were very common with the usual fine in St Helens being £10. That in itself was quite high, compared to fines for theft or minor violence. But using your own home for gambling purposes was considered much more serious and, if you had multiple convictions, the penalty could be sky-high.
This week a fine of £50 or 28 days in prison was imposed on Elizabeth Considine of Bickerstaffe Street in St Helens for keeping a house for betting purposes. It was the second time within a few months that she had been convicted and Sergeant Valentine, who led the police raid on her house, said over three days in October their undercover surveillance had counted a total of 212 persons enter her home.
Many people routinely sent their kids out to buy cigarettes or beer from local shops and pubs. The shopkeeper knew that the tobacco or alcohol was for the child's parents but serving them was risky. This week shopkeeper Jane Liptrot of Central Street was fined 5 shillings in St Helens Police Court for selling a packet of cigarettes to a small boy.
A police constable saw the lad coming out of Mrs Liptrot's shop holding a packet of cigarettes in his hand. The minimum age for purchasing tobacco was 14 and the boy's father, James Sephton, was also fined 5 shillings for sending his son into the shop.
When the police stopped motorists for breaching regulations the driver often protested or made some excuse. When Ernest Francis of Park Road was challenged by a constable for failing to have a light on the off-side of his car, he retorted: "There are thousands like this in St. Helens". In court he was fined 5 shillings.
Another fine of five shillings was imposed on Frederick Shaw from Moss Bank. He did have a lamp on his motorbike while driving along Baldwin Street but he had fastened it to a belt round his waist. That was because there was something wrong with the lamp bracket on his bike and as he was in a hurry, Frederick had come up with this makeshift arrangement. However, the constable on point duty at Sefton Place told the magistrates that as the rider crouched over his handlebars, the lamp had shone directly onto the ground and not in front.
Nineteenth century censuses contain many addresses bearing the name "back of" such a place, e.g. 5, Back of Duke Street. Such addresses were less common by the 1920s, in part because some of the "back offs" had become known as Courts. Two next-door neighbours living in a Duke Street Court this week summoned each other to the Police Court accusing each other of assault.
Mary Atherton of no. 10 Court was accused of throwing a bucket of water over the front step of Elizabeth Walker at no. 8 and in response the latter had pulled Mrs Atherton's hair and roughed her up. Mrs Walker's version was that Mrs Atherton had deliberately thrown water on her doorstep and it had been simply by way of retaliation that she had chucked water onto Mrs Atherton's front step.
They were pointless prosecutions as the magistrates did what they often did in such circumstances; they bound both women over to keep the peace for six months, themselves in the sum of £1 and they each had to find someone prepared to put up a further surety of £1.
And finally, mining deaths sometimes occurred months after an accident had taken place. William Bluck of Edgeworth Street in Sutton had been badly injured at Clock Face Colliery (pictured above) in July when due to a misunderstanding, he was crushed between a box of coal and the underground roof. Although William was discharged from St Helens Hospital, his inquest heard this week that the 43-year-old had to be readmitted and he had died in hospital on October 3rd.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the problems of building houses in subsidence-ridden Sutton, the use of a tramcar as an old men's shelter in Taylor Park, the brutal Sutton Manor miner and the building of one hundred steel houses in St Helens.
This week was St Helens Health Week in which many promotional events took place and which had begun with a meeting at the Savoy Cinema on the preceding Sunday. The Reporter described a crowded attendance, which they said underlined the importance that the people of the town felt towards promoting health. However, the numbers would have been boosted by the fact that there were few alternative distractions. No television, of course, and, as it was a Sunday, no theatre performances or cinema screenings were permitted.
Much was made of the fact that St Helens was considered a very progressive town when it came to matters of health. And significant improvements had been made, with the death rate and infantile mortality rate having both been halved since 1900. But still 1 in 10 new-borns would die in St Helens at a very young age.
On the 20th Patrick Gleavy appeared in Prescot Police Court charged with using a revolver to attempt a hold-up at the Victoria Hotel in Rainhill. It was a strange story as the young man had never been in trouble before and came from a respectable family. Patrick's sister sat in the courtroom crying as the magistrates heard how her brother had supped a few glasses of beer at the Victoria and then pulled out a gun.
The young man attempted to rob the safe but he was tackled by a member of staff and overpowered. The revolver turned out to be unloaded and not in a working condition but the brave hotel man called Williams did not, of course, know that. Upon being sentenced to two months in prison with hard labour, Patrick Gleavy collapsed in the dock and his sister wept even louder.
Earlier in the month at a St Helens Town Council meeting, it was decided that Hardshaw Street would be reconstructed using wooden paving to make it quieter when traffic passed through it. That was despite granite being cheaper and longer lasting. Councillor Ellison, the Chairman of the Highways Committee, had said: "Hardshaw-street is entitled to preferential treatment. It is a street devoted to clerical work, and noise is disturbing. If we can afford to place wood blocks in front of places of worship when they are only used on Sundays, we can stretch a point with regard to Hardshaw-street."
On the 21st at a meeting of the Highways Committee it was revealed that the Vicar of St Mark's, the Rev Taylor, had been reading newspaper reports of the decision and learnt that other churches in St Helens had wood paving outside – but his did not. And so he had written to the committee requesting such paving be used in the roadway outside his North Road church. The answer Rev Taylor received was that wooden blocks had been placed outside other churches when their roads were being made up and the next time North Road was being altered, consideration would be given to incorporating wood outside his church.
"The funeral took place amid the most impressive manifestations of sympathy at St. Nicholas' Church, Sutton, yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. Long before the solemn service was timed to commence the roads and approaches to the churchyard were thronged with people and there were strings of taxis and motors in attendance."
There were more convictions this week for keeping larks and linnets in such tiny cages that the birds were not able to fully extend their wings. A couple of weeks ago Inspector Negus of the RSPCA had told the Police Court that a large number of persons in St Helens trapped birds on Sundays.
The chemical waste heap at Parr was, apparently, a popular place for such bird catching. They were caught by scattering birdlime on grass and inserting their captured quarry into tiny cages. The birds would then be taken away to sell and even though protests were made that keeping them in a small space was only temporary, the catchers were still fined 5 shillings.
Prosecutions for receiving bets were very common with the usual fine in St Helens being £10. That in itself was quite high, compared to fines for theft or minor violence. But using your own home for gambling purposes was considered much more serious and, if you had multiple convictions, the penalty could be sky-high.
This week a fine of £50 or 28 days in prison was imposed on Elizabeth Considine of Bickerstaffe Street in St Helens for keeping a house for betting purposes. It was the second time within a few months that she had been convicted and Sergeant Valentine, who led the police raid on her house, said over three days in October their undercover surveillance had counted a total of 212 persons enter her home.
Many people routinely sent their kids out to buy cigarettes or beer from local shops and pubs. The shopkeeper knew that the tobacco or alcohol was for the child's parents but serving them was risky. This week shopkeeper Jane Liptrot of Central Street was fined 5 shillings in St Helens Police Court for selling a packet of cigarettes to a small boy.
A police constable saw the lad coming out of Mrs Liptrot's shop holding a packet of cigarettes in his hand. The minimum age for purchasing tobacco was 14 and the boy's father, James Sephton, was also fined 5 shillings for sending his son into the shop.
When the police stopped motorists for breaching regulations the driver often protested or made some excuse. When Ernest Francis of Park Road was challenged by a constable for failing to have a light on the off-side of his car, he retorted: "There are thousands like this in St. Helens". In court he was fined 5 shillings.
Another fine of five shillings was imposed on Frederick Shaw from Moss Bank. He did have a lamp on his motorbike while driving along Baldwin Street but he had fastened it to a belt round his waist. That was because there was something wrong with the lamp bracket on his bike and as he was in a hurry, Frederick had come up with this makeshift arrangement. However, the constable on point duty at Sefton Place told the magistrates that as the rider crouched over his handlebars, the lamp had shone directly onto the ground and not in front.
Nineteenth century censuses contain many addresses bearing the name "back of" such a place, e.g. 5, Back of Duke Street. Such addresses were less common by the 1920s, in part because some of the "back offs" had become known as Courts. Two next-door neighbours living in a Duke Street Court this week summoned each other to the Police Court accusing each other of assault.
Mary Atherton of no. 10 Court was accused of throwing a bucket of water over the front step of Elizabeth Walker at no. 8 and in response the latter had pulled Mrs Atherton's hair and roughed her up. Mrs Walker's version was that Mrs Atherton had deliberately thrown water on her doorstep and it had been simply by way of retaliation that she had chucked water onto Mrs Atherton's front step.
They were pointless prosecutions as the magistrates did what they often did in such circumstances; they bound both women over to keep the peace for six months, themselves in the sum of £1 and they each had to find someone prepared to put up a further surety of £1.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the problems of building houses in subsidence-ridden Sutton, the use of a tramcar as an old men's shelter in Taylor Park, the brutal Sutton Manor miner and the building of one hundred steel houses in St Helens.
This week's many stories include the Sunday bird catching in Parr, St Helens Health Week begins, the attempted hold up in Rainhill, the woman fined £50 for receiving bets, the funeral of Councillor Bell takes place and the Duke Street court bust-up that ended in a draw.
This week was St Helens Health Week in which many promotional events took place and which had begun with a meeting at the Savoy Cinema on the preceding Sunday.
The Reporter described a crowded attendance, which they said underlined the importance that the people of the town felt towards promoting health.
However, the numbers would have been boosted by the fact that there were few alternative distractions.
No television, of course, and, as it was a Sunday, no theatre performances or cinema screenings were permitted.
Much was made of the fact that St Helens was considered a very progressive town when it came to matters of health.
And significant improvements had been made, with the death rate and infantile mortality rate having both been halved since 1900. But still 1 in 10 new-borns would die in St Helens at a very young age.
On the 20th Patrick Gleavy appeared in Prescot Police Court charged with using a revolver to attempt a hold-up at the Victoria Hotel in Rainhill.
It was a strange story as the young man had never been in trouble before and came from a respectable family.
Patrick's sister sat in the courtroom crying as the magistrates heard how her brother had supped a few glasses of beer at the Victoria and then pulled out a gun.
The young man attempted to rob the safe but he was tackled by a member of staff and overpowered.
The revolver turned out to be unloaded and not in a working condition but the brave hotel man called Williams did not, of course, know that.
Upon being sentenced to two months in prison with hard labour, Patrick Gleavy collapsed in the dock and his sister wept even louder.
Earlier in the month at a St Helens Town Council meeting, it was decided that Hardshaw Street would be reconstructed using wooden paving to make it quieter when traffic passed through it. That was despite granite being cheaper and longer lasting.
Councillor Ellison, the Chairman of the Highways Committee, had said: "Hardshaw-street is entitled to preferential treatment. It is a street devoted to clerical work, and noise is disturbing. If we can afford to place wood blocks in front of places of worship when they are only used on Sundays, we can stretch a point with regard to Hardshaw-street."
On the 21st at a meeting of the Highways Committee it was revealed that the Vicar of St Mark's, the Rev Taylor, had been reading newspaper reports of the decision and learnt that other churches in St Helens had wood paving outside – but his did not.
And so he had written to the committee requesting such paving be used in the roadway outside his North Road church.
The answer Rev Taylor received was that wooden blocks had been placed outside other churches when their roads were being made up and the next time North Road was being altered, consideration would be given to incorporating wood outside his church.
On the 22nd the funeral of William Bell of New Street took place. The councillor and tradesman had hung himself inside his lock-up grocer's shop in Peckers Hill Road after suffering from depression through being owed £1,000. The Reporter wrote:
"The funeral took place amid the most impressive manifestations of sympathy at St. Nicholas' Church, Sutton, yesterday (Thursday) afternoon.
"Long before the solemn service was timed to commence the roads and approaches to the churchyard were thronged with people and there were strings of taxis and motors in attendance."
There were more convictions this week for keeping larks and linnets in such tiny cages that the birds were not able to fully extend their wings.
A couple of weeks ago Inspector Negus of the RSPCA had told the Police Court that a large number of persons in St Helens trapped birds on Sundays.
The chemical waste heap at Parr was, apparently, a popular place for such bird catching.
They were caught by scattering birdlime on grass and inserting their captured quarry into tiny cages.
The birds would then be taken away to sell and even though protests were made that keeping them in a small space was only temporary, the catchers were still fined 5 shillings.
Prosecutions for receiving bets were very common with the usual fine in St Helens being £10. That in itself was quite high, compared to fines for theft or minor violence.
But using your own home for gambling purposes was considered much more serious and, if you had multiple convictions, the penalty could be sky-high.
This week a fine of £50 or 28 days in prison was imposed on Elizabeth Considine of Bickerstaffe Street in St Helens for keeping a house for betting purposes.
It was the second time within a few months that she had been convicted and Sergeant Valentine, who led the police raid on her house, said over three days in October their undercover surveillance had counted a total of 212 persons enter her home.
Many people routinely sent their kids out to buy cigarettes or beer from local shops and pubs.
The shopkeeper knew that the tobacco or alcohol was for the child's parents but serving them was risky.
This week shopkeeper Jane Liptrot of Central Street was fined 5 shillings in St Helens Police Court for selling a packet of cigarettes to a small boy.
A police constable saw the lad coming out of Mrs Liptrot's shop holding a packet of cigarettes in his hand.
The minimum age for purchasing tobacco was 14 and the boy's father, James Sephton, was also fined 5 shillings for sending his son into the shop.
When the police stopped motorists for breaching regulations the driver often protested or made some excuse.
When Ernest Francis of Park Road was challenged by a constable for failing to have a light on the off-side of his car, he retorted: "There are thousands like this in St. Helens". In court he was fined 5 shillings.
Another fine of five shillings was imposed on Frederick Shaw from Moss Bank.
He did have a lamp on his motorbike while driving along Baldwin Street but he had fastened it to a belt round his waist.
That was because there was something wrong with the lamp bracket on his bike and as he was in a hurry, Frederick had come up with this makeshift arrangement.
However, the constable on point duty at Sefton Place told the magistrates that as the rider crouched over his handlebars, the lamp had shone directly onto the ground and not in front.
Nineteenth century censuses contain many addresses bearing the name "back of" such a place, e.g. 5, Back of Duke Street.
Such addresses were less common by the 1920s, in part because some of the "back offs" had become known as Courts.
Two next-door neighbours living in a Duke Street Court this week summoned each other to the Police Court accusing each other of assault.
Mary Atherton of no. 10 Court was accused of throwing a bucket of water over the front step of Elizabeth Walker at no. 8 and in response the latter had pulled Mrs Atherton's hair and roughed her up.
Mrs Walker's version was that Mrs Atherton had deliberately thrown water on her doorstep and it had been simply by way of retaliation that she had chucked water onto Mrs Atherton's front step.
They were pointless prosecutions as the magistrates did what they often did in such circumstances; they bound both women over to keep the peace for six months, themselves in the sum of £1 and they each had to find someone prepared to put up a further surety of £1.
And finally, mining deaths sometimes occurred months after an accident had taken place.
William Bluck of Edgeworth Street in Sutton had been badly injured at Clock Face Colliery (pictured above) in July when due to a misunderstanding, he was crushed between a box of coal and the underground roof.
Although William was discharged from St Helens Hospital, his inquest heard this week that the 43-year-old had to be readmitted and he had died in hospital on October 3rd.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the problems of building houses in subsidence-ridden Sutton, the use of a tramcar as an old men's shelter in Taylor Park, the brutal Sutton Manor miner and the building of one hundred steel houses in St Helens.
This week was St Helens Health Week in which many promotional events took place and which had begun with a meeting at the Savoy Cinema on the preceding Sunday.
The Reporter described a crowded attendance, which they said underlined the importance that the people of the town felt towards promoting health.
However, the numbers would have been boosted by the fact that there were few alternative distractions.
No television, of course, and, as it was a Sunday, no theatre performances or cinema screenings were permitted.
Much was made of the fact that St Helens was considered a very progressive town when it came to matters of health.
And significant improvements had been made, with the death rate and infantile mortality rate having both been halved since 1900. But still 1 in 10 new-borns would die in St Helens at a very young age.
On the 20th Patrick Gleavy appeared in Prescot Police Court charged with using a revolver to attempt a hold-up at the Victoria Hotel in Rainhill.
It was a strange story as the young man had never been in trouble before and came from a respectable family.
Patrick's sister sat in the courtroom crying as the magistrates heard how her brother had supped a few glasses of beer at the Victoria and then pulled out a gun.
The young man attempted to rob the safe but he was tackled by a member of staff and overpowered.
The revolver turned out to be unloaded and not in a working condition but the brave hotel man called Williams did not, of course, know that.
Upon being sentenced to two months in prison with hard labour, Patrick Gleavy collapsed in the dock and his sister wept even louder.
Earlier in the month at a St Helens Town Council meeting, it was decided that Hardshaw Street would be reconstructed using wooden paving to make it quieter when traffic passed through it. That was despite granite being cheaper and longer lasting.
Councillor Ellison, the Chairman of the Highways Committee, had said: "Hardshaw-street is entitled to preferential treatment. It is a street devoted to clerical work, and noise is disturbing. If we can afford to place wood blocks in front of places of worship when they are only used on Sundays, we can stretch a point with regard to Hardshaw-street."
On the 21st at a meeting of the Highways Committee it was revealed that the Vicar of St Mark's, the Rev Taylor, had been reading newspaper reports of the decision and learnt that other churches in St Helens had wood paving outside – but his did not.
And so he had written to the committee requesting such paving be used in the roadway outside his North Road church.
The answer Rev Taylor received was that wooden blocks had been placed outside other churches when their roads were being made up and the next time North Road was being altered, consideration would be given to incorporating wood outside his church.
"The funeral took place amid the most impressive manifestations of sympathy at St. Nicholas' Church, Sutton, yesterday (Thursday) afternoon.
"Long before the solemn service was timed to commence the roads and approaches to the churchyard were thronged with people and there were strings of taxis and motors in attendance."
There were more convictions this week for keeping larks and linnets in such tiny cages that the birds were not able to fully extend their wings.
A couple of weeks ago Inspector Negus of the RSPCA had told the Police Court that a large number of persons in St Helens trapped birds on Sundays.
The chemical waste heap at Parr was, apparently, a popular place for such bird catching.
They were caught by scattering birdlime on grass and inserting their captured quarry into tiny cages.
The birds would then be taken away to sell and even though protests were made that keeping them in a small space was only temporary, the catchers were still fined 5 shillings.
Prosecutions for receiving bets were very common with the usual fine in St Helens being £10. That in itself was quite high, compared to fines for theft or minor violence.
But using your own home for gambling purposes was considered much more serious and, if you had multiple convictions, the penalty could be sky-high.
This week a fine of £50 or 28 days in prison was imposed on Elizabeth Considine of Bickerstaffe Street in St Helens for keeping a house for betting purposes.
It was the second time within a few months that she had been convicted and Sergeant Valentine, who led the police raid on her house, said over three days in October their undercover surveillance had counted a total of 212 persons enter her home.
Many people routinely sent their kids out to buy cigarettes or beer from local shops and pubs.
The shopkeeper knew that the tobacco or alcohol was for the child's parents but serving them was risky.
This week shopkeeper Jane Liptrot of Central Street was fined 5 shillings in St Helens Police Court for selling a packet of cigarettes to a small boy.
A police constable saw the lad coming out of Mrs Liptrot's shop holding a packet of cigarettes in his hand.
The minimum age for purchasing tobacco was 14 and the boy's father, James Sephton, was also fined 5 shillings for sending his son into the shop.
When the police stopped motorists for breaching regulations the driver often protested or made some excuse.
When Ernest Francis of Park Road was challenged by a constable for failing to have a light on the off-side of his car, he retorted: "There are thousands like this in St. Helens". In court he was fined 5 shillings.
Another fine of five shillings was imposed on Frederick Shaw from Moss Bank.
He did have a lamp on his motorbike while driving along Baldwin Street but he had fastened it to a belt round his waist.
That was because there was something wrong with the lamp bracket on his bike and as he was in a hurry, Frederick had come up with this makeshift arrangement.
However, the constable on point duty at Sefton Place told the magistrates that as the rider crouched over his handlebars, the lamp had shone directly onto the ground and not in front.
Nineteenth century censuses contain many addresses bearing the name "back of" such a place, e.g. 5, Back of Duke Street.
Such addresses were less common by the 1920s, in part because some of the "back offs" had become known as Courts.
Two next-door neighbours living in a Duke Street Court this week summoned each other to the Police Court accusing each other of assault.
Mary Atherton of no. 10 Court was accused of throwing a bucket of water over the front step of Elizabeth Walker at no. 8 and in response the latter had pulled Mrs Atherton's hair and roughed her up.
Mrs Walker's version was that Mrs Atherton had deliberately thrown water on her doorstep and it had been simply by way of retaliation that she had chucked water onto Mrs Atherton's front step.
They were pointless prosecutions as the magistrates did what they often did in such circumstances; they bound both women over to keep the peace for six months, themselves in the sum of £1 and they each had to find someone prepared to put up a further surety of £1.
And finally, mining deaths sometimes occurred months after an accident had taken place.
Although William was discharged from St Helens Hospital, his inquest heard this week that the 43-year-old had to be readmitted and he had died in hospital on October 3rd.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the problems of building houses in subsidence-ridden Sutton, the use of a tramcar as an old men's shelter in Taylor Park, the brutal Sutton Manor miner and the building of one hundred steel houses in St Helens.