St Helens History This Week

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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.
Ashtons Green Colliery St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 FEB - 3 MARCH 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the conman that stole money given to help the unemployed, the theft from Jimmy James' dressing room in the Theatre Royal, the separated husband's claim that his wife drank too much, the breadman in Hardshaw Street in trouble for not possessing any scales, the St Helens lad that the Labour Exchange helped send to Australia and why PC Parr arrested a woman in Parr for shouting "ey up".
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Red Lion St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 FEBRUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the complications that were caused by the housing crisis in St Helens, the burning tragedy of a Gerards Bridge schoolgirl, the unhelpful publicity given to a young Peter Street couple's marital troubles, the singer accused of begging for alms that was ordered to quit town and it is last orders for the historic Red Lion Hotel – but there's a new Nags Head pub in the works.
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Sefton Place St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 FEBRUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drunken father from Rainford who said he refused to be chicken-pecked, another crash takes place at St Helens' suicide corner, the troubles of two young men in trying to have a fight in the town, the marbles stolen from Nuttalls bottleworks, the escapologist performing at the Hippodrome Theatre and the bizarre kidnapping claim by the collector for a Duke Street clothing firm.
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Providence Hospital St Helens summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 FEBRUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Silkstone Street man's attempted suicide after three years of unemployment, the scheme to encourage people to buy their own homes rather than rent, the results of Uncle Ben's limerick contest, the policeman who was supposedly suffering in the Boilermakers Arms and the prosecution for putting up a lean-to building without planning permission from the council.
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St Helens tram summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JAN - 4 FEB 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories from a century ago include the Parr woman who threatened to put a bread knife through her neighbour's gizzard, the Italian ice-cream hawker trading without a permit, the boys' Sunday mischief at Hardshaw Brook, the planned improvements to Boundary Road baths, the troublesome boy that slept in a midden and why a motorist's wrinkled wick had left him without a rear light in Prescot Road.
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Globe hotel summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JANUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the baby's body that was dumped in Silkstone Street, the one-eyed coal miner's compensation payment, the Sunday afternoon raid on a banana warehouse, plans for the new Globe Hotel in Hardshaw Street, why Rainford was proving to be an excellent place to live, the effects of the railway strike on St Helens commuters and the man that shot himself in the heart through a row over furniture.
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Sutton Park summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 JANUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the violent husband in Green Street who behaved like a madman, the young worker who was crushed to death by a machine at Prescot, the plans to install hard tennis courts in Sutton Park, the Eccleston Lane Ends biscuits fraud, the thieving Donkey Gang at St Helens Junction are brought to book and the St Helens MP complains about disabled or sick ex-soldiers from WW1 denied army pensions.
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Fleece summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 JANUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the high rate of infant mortality in St Helens, the family strife in Recreation Street that led to a woman being attacked, the boy scalped by a train near the Sherdley Glass bottleworks, the neglected Sutton horse that was kept in two feet of filth, the violent beggar wanting a copper outside the police station and the domineering dad from Doulton Street appears in St Helens Police Court.
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St Helens Town Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 JANUARY 1924

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the New Year's Day breakfasts for poor children, the Sutton Manor man who was accused of being an habitual criminal, the Park Road poker row over unemployment, the bad state of the town's roads, the Haydock woman that died after falling down the stairs, a young man is killed in an electrical hoist at Pilks and the body of a new-born child is discovered on wasteland in Sutton.
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Providence Hospital summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 25 - 31 DECEMBER 1923

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include how Christmas was spent in the town's hospitals, the Christmas Circus that was performing at the Hippodrome, the issuing of the Sherdley dole for the poor old folk of Sutton, the Christmas Day tragedy at St Helens Junction station, Father Christmas visits Rainford in a fairy-like sleigh and the man that bet £5 on a rugby game but refused to give his wife and children maintenance.
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Griffins Furnishers summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 DECEMBER 1923

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Christmas Party for the children of the unemployed in St Helens, Zellini the human chimney performs at the Hippodrome with his smoking mechanical dog, the tug-of-war at the Clock Face Institute's Sports that led to a broken wrist and a court case, the Rigby Street garage fire, the rules for dancing at church socials in Parr and the thorny question of allotments is again considered.
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