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.
St Helens Hospital summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the French actor's indecent act against a woman on a St Helens train, the man that was gassed to death at the St Helens Smelting Works, a foundation stone for the new Lowe House church is laid, the proposed new maternity block for St Helens Hospital, the Raleigh bike that was guaranteed to last for ever and Silcocks are accused of breaking gaming laws at their Napier Street funfair.
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Sutton Manor Colliery summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the marauding cats and dogs on the new Windlehurst council estate that were causing a nuisance, the former army huts that homeless Sutton Manor miners were occupying, the St Helens Town Clerk is sacked for refusing to take a pay cut, the unfairness of the means-tested old age pension and the Thatto Heath man that was accused of being a "drunken, lazy fellow".
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School Brow, Rainford summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th FEB. - 5th MARCH 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include an appeal for St Helens butchers to humanely slaughter their animals, the Hippodrome Theatre moves towards becoming a dedicated cinema, the pioneering vocational training centre in St Helens, the farmer's kind consideration for his horses (but not his workers!) in the Rainford snow and why the St Helens brigade that attended a huge fire at Penketh were told they had to go home.
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St Helens County Court summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th FEBRUARY 1923)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the violent water polo player at Boundary Road baths who was sued in St Helens County Court, the wholesale shopbreakers from Eccleston are sentenced at the assizes, the truth about the violent Cooper Street mirror woman, the husband that deserted his family pays a very heavy price and the curious disappearance of the tobacconist's traveller from New Street in Sutton.
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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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