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.
Trolley bus summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30 OCT - 5 NOV 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the shocking assault with an iron bar on two Sutton women, the annual St Helens council elections take place, trolley buses are considered for the town, the St Helens Caledonian Society celebrates Halloween, the man who threw a brick at a yapping dog in Parr, the Langtree Street man that struck his wife with a poker and the harsh sentence for uttering a counterfeit bank note in Prescot.
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Ashtons Green colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23 - 29 OCTOBER 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the man who was charged with uttering a counterfeit bank note, the planned demolition and rebuilding of the Sefton Arms, the tragedy of a Stanhope Street repossession case, the repeat offender practically born in Whiston workhouse, the young man accused of making a living by stealing coal and the magistrates offer to treat a thief leniently if he agreed to go and work down the pit.
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Robins Lane St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16 - 22 OCTOBER 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include Rainford's deadly delph pool that had taken the lives of several children, the drunken miner in Robins Lane who told a policeman to drop dead, a review of the Health Week in St Helens, the cheap train tickets to watch Man Utd and City play football, the Doulton Street dole cheat who was given a harsh sentence and the man fined for singing in Peasley Cross at the top of his voice.
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Clock Face Colliery bike shed St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9 - 15 OCTOBER 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the cheeky bike thief who traded up his machine at Boundary Road Baths, the woman involved in a gambling house in Sutton that wanted to go to prison, Cholerton's wireless sale in Bridge Street, the made-to-measure corsets in North Road, a change in the law leads to a big increase in evictions of tenants, the fear of a Beecham's blaze and the sawing of a woman in half.
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Health Week St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2 - 8 OCTOBER 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Woodbine-smoking incorrigible eight-year-old boy who was told by a magistrate that he deserved to be beaten several times a week, the betting house run by two sisters in Thatto Heath, St Helens housewives are given advice to keep their homes clean, the proposed new reservoir to relieve a severe water famine in St Helens and the ex-soldier found in Cooper Street drunk on meths.
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Moss Bank Station St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25 SEPT - 1 OCT 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the difficulties with raising funds and obtaining a complete list of dead soldiers for St Helens' proposed war memorial, the beginning of home ownership in St Helens, the betting house in Highfield Street in Sutton, a porter gets punched at Moss Bank station, the planned Health Week in St Helens and the motorbike and sidecar down Thatto Heath Road with two different registration numbers.
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Thatto Heath Park St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18 - 24 SEPTEMBER 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the midnight gambling that took place in Parr, the indecent acts that were being committed against women on the streets of St Helens, the blackberry-picking death of a Rainford boy, the street betting in Pocket Nook, the four schoolboys who had been caught damaging trees in Thatto Heath Park and the Lord Street man charged with assaulting his wife by cutting her head open with a basin.
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Alexandra Colliery St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the child that died after falling into a pan of boiling water, mineworkers are told to think of themselves first before putting themselves in danger, the young thief who thought he should have been flogged, the prize-winning Thatto Heath railway station, an exhibition of students' work at the Gamble's Art School and Pilkington's demand a subsidy to build cottages in Dunriding Lane in Eccleston.
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Savoy picture house St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4 - 10 SEPTEMBER 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the man in Salisbury Street in St Helens that claimed to be a detective in order to molest a woman, the wife who stabbed her violent husband in the neck returns to court, the dispute between an aunt and her niece over the pawning of rings, the athletic Sutton bobby that twice chased down a gambler and an insistence that the Thatto Heath ghost was a real spook and not a prank.
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Edinburgh cafe St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28 AUGUST - 3 SEPT 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the theft of a live turkey from the Griffin Inn in Bold, the King Street poker row between an uncle and niece, the Thatto Heath scandal that led to a woman leaving home, a call for more regulation of irresponsible motorists, the St Helens Crippled Children's Aid Society's flower day and the handsome new Edinburgh Cafe in Church Street in St Helens that served its meals daintily opens its doors.
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Clock Face Colliery St Helens bike shed summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21 - 27 AUGUST 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the bizarre behaviour of a Thatto Heath ghost, the abused wife that stabbed her husband with a knife, the unwanted dog that a father and son threw down an old Whiston mineshaft, the magistrate that told the brother of a young bike thief that he should give him some stick and the contortionist's horse that decided to go walkies in George Street in St Helens in the middle of the night.
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