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.
Savoy Picture House St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 OCTOBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the youth who was prosecuted for saying the police were the paid scabs of capitalists, the mysterious death of a Marconi wireless operator who fell out of a train at Thatto Heath, the drift back to work at the pits, the Jack Dempsey world heavyweight fight shown at the Savoy, the problem of building homes on land subject to mining subsidence and the special constables at Clock Face Colliery who nabbed a violent coal picker.
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Providence Hospital St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 OCTOBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the lifesaving blood transfusion at St Helens Hospital, the Russian in Sutton Manor who said his name was Smith, there's praise for the St Helens Glee Club's founder, the St Helens MP's car crash while on his way to Providence Hospital to lay a memorial stone, the Sutton man that died after being kicked by his horse and the magistrates that bought a hard-up woman a pedlar's licence.
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Rainford Colliery St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 SEPT - 4 OCT 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the dangerous outcrop mine workings, the striking Rainford miners who'd been working on farms drift back to their pits, the popularity of opera in St Helens, the intimidation at Sutton Manor Colliery, the man who claimed St Helens police had bludgeoned helpless men, women and children and the street bookie who used the Emergency Powers Act as an excuse for running away from a policeman.
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Rainford Village Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 21 - 27 SEPTEMBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Lea Green farmer who was in a pickle with his pikel, Lord John Sanger's Circus comes to town, the two little children from Dentons Green who ran away from home, a delay to plans to reduce relief payments to destitute miners' families, the carnival dance in Rainford Village Hall and the wife who claimed her husband showed contempt to her when sober and assaulted her while drunk.
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County Court St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 SEPTEMBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the outcropping coal thieves that were brought to book, the foundation stone is laid for the new Catholic church of St Teresa in Newtown, the street that had two hundred people in an uproar, the injured boy at a copper works who was denied compensation and the tearful old man caught taking coal from the bottleworks where he'd been employed for forty-nine years.
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WG Dixon taxis and funerals summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 7 - 13 SEPTEMBER 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the acrobatic shopbreaking trio of boys, the strikebreaking miners at Southport Colliery in Parr that got stoned on their way home, the disgraceful condition of some council houses only weeks after being occupied, the illegal Haydock drinking den, the Reporter's advertising feature on dance and the Home Secretary criticises MP Joe Tinker's fiery speeches to coal miners in St Helens.
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Thatto Heath Park summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 31 AUG - 6 SEPT 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the children who had been stealing from Thatto Heath Park, the death of a bareback horse-riding miner, the Pocket Nook woman who defrauded the dole, Lennon's Xmas Savings Club, the high cost of removing tram rails in readiness for trolley buses and the St Helens man who brutalised his wife for giving him a hen's egg for his breakfast instead of one from a duck.
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Robb Wilton summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 AUGUST 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the two outcrop mining deaths, the thirteen-year-old thief who spent his ill-gotten gains in New Brighton, the war hero in despair over his missing wife, the shooting through a woman stunt at the Hippodrome, the singing of The Red Flag outside St Helens Town Hall and the crowd of 200 that tried to intimidate the wife of a strike-breaking Sutton Manor Colliery engine winder.
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Sutton Manor Colliery, summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 AUGUST 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the start of the building of the East Lancashire Road, the withdrawal of Sutton Manor Colliery safety men, the Sutton burglar trio are brought to book, the fish that caught a fisherman, the police compassion for a troubled family after a son breaks into the British Legion Club and the railway outrage near St Helens Junction that could have led to a train disaster.
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Greenfield Road, St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 AUGUST 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the conman at Saints who claimed to be a famous rugby union player, a boy's brave canal rescue of another boy, the annual St Helens Crippled Children's outing to Southport, the series of break-ins in St Helens, the miners' dispute over safety coal, the Parr miners impromptu carnival, concert and sports meeting that was held in Gaskell Park and the criticism of speeding trams in St Helens.
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Sandy Powell summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 AUGUST 1926

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the dramatic rescue of a drowning dog at Gillars Green, the turnip thief in St Helens Hospital's garden, the Russian Pole who stole coal to have some tea, the St Helens MP criticises Parliament's long holiday, the St Helens man who impersonated a vicar, comic Sandy Powell returns to St Helens and the police's night-time vigil off Hawthorne Road to catch coal thieves.
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