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.
Sacred Heart Church, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 MAY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include Lady Baden Powell's visit to St Helens to attend a rally of girl guides, the two parishioners that came to blows outside Sacred Heart church, Samson the strongest man in the world comes to town, the motorcycle and sidecar crash that took place in Rainford, the stone-throwing lads of Hard Lane, the shop break in at Carr Mill, the eighth annual Sutton Eisteddfod is held and the lazy husband who would not work and was asked in court if his back would not bend!
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Lowe House foundation stone, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 MAY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the laying of the foundation stone for the new Lowe House Church, the brave rescue of a toddler from a Sutton reservoir, the man reported as having escaped from Rainhill Lunatic Asylum, plans for the new parish church are announced, the innovative fancy dress event in Haydock and the proposals for the installation of receptacles on St Helens' streets for the depositing of litter.
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Sherdley Colliery, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 APRIL - 5 MAY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the racing tipster that was booked in Bridge Street for not having a hawker's licence, the revived old folk's treat in Rainford, the sacred pilgrimage to Lourdes, the difficulties of the housing shortage are played out in the County Court, the man who refereed the St Helens Referees Society, the roof fall in Sherdley Colliery and the glass theft from the Ring o' Bells pub in Westfield Street.
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Liverpool Road, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 APRIL 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a Rainhill man's curious ham fraud, the stand-up fight that took place in Liverpool Road, the new Cowley Boys secondary school, the Ravenhead Colliery miner killed by a bolt that fell down the pit shaft, the St Helens Esperantists listening to the King, the fire at an Ormskirk Street boot shop and the Cowley Street man's claim that he hit his sister with a hammer purely as a matter of honour.
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Church Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 APRIL 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the concert in aid of the planned new Sutton Manor basilica, the mischievous youths causing trouble in Church Street, the Nutgrove Road undertaker who was accused of being a drunkard, the police gambling raid in Devon Street, the Whiston bobby that rescued a dog from the bottom of a deep mineshaft and the inconvenience caused by the relaying of tramlines in Croppers Hill.
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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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