St Helens History This Week

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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.
Tommy Handley summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th SEPTEMBER 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a vicar's report on a meeting of Communists in Thatto Heath, flower stealing at St Helens Cemetery, the boys that placed sentries round the market while stealing from stalls, the St Helens MP takes on Bolsheviks, Tommy Handley performs at the Hippodrome, the boy raids at Grange Park Golf Club and the unemployed men on the Clock Face work relief scheme march on St Helens Town Hall.
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Ernie Proudlove summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th SEPTEMBER 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Rainford sisterly row after the housing crisis led to 6 people sharing the same bedroom, the Thatto Heath miner who refused to look after his family, the Borough Road tenant's foolish refusal to pay all her rent, the street betting raid in Hall Street, the low level of dole money for the unemployed and a brutal police assault on peaceful protestors inside Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery.
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St Helens Ladies summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th SEPTEMBER 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a warning of starvation through the dire unemployment situation in St Helens, the biker accused of riding like a madman in Eccleston Street, the pub and beerhouse opening hours are revised, St Helens Ladies travel to Burnley, the disturbing revival of the Ku Klux Klan, a series of boxing contests in the Volunteer Hall and the painful case of the pregnant St Helens servant at Blackpool.
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Alexandra Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th AUG. - 5th SEPT. 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the bombshell bigamy admission that was made in a St Helens court, a stormy meeting takes place between unemployed men and the Mayor of St Helens, the stealing by finding on a lorry at Islands Brow, the Portico Lane farmer who admitted diluting his milk, the long-serving head teachers of St Helens and how a failure to use safety equipment down a St Helens colliery cost a man his life.
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R38 airship summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th AUGUST 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens survivor of an airship disaster over the Humber, the high speed motorbike testing down North Road, the female musical pioneer appearing at the Theatre Royal, provisional 1921 census results are released, the claim that Sutton men streamed out of work every lunchtime to bet with bookies and the practice of auctioning off parts of Blackpool beach to the highest bidder.
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Bold Bridge summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd AUGUST 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include a family dispute in Sutton over a Sunday suit, the Elephant Lane housing dispute, the motorbike death crash at Bold Bridge, the special trains and charabanc trips to Haydock Park, the St Helens Charity Sports are held at St Helens Recs football ground in City Road and why the cats of Thatto Heath had enjoyed a scrumptious weekend after entering a burgled shop.
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Parr Stocks Road summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th AUGUST 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the crippled pedlar of Borough Road's knife attack on a fellow lodger, a son's sham burglary of his father's house in Parr Stocks Road, the two-year-old boy left home alone in Whiston who was run over by a train, the death is announced of the outspoken St Helens solicitor Jeremiah Haslam Fox and the diatribe of the chauvinistic author who said women were completely incapable of ruling.
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Clock Face Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th AUGUST 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a coroner's damning criticism of Pilkingtons sheet works in Grove Street after a worker falls down a lift shaft, the Bold Street woman who used a knife on an unwanted visitor, the man who expostulated with a car driver that he accused of speeding in Shaw Street and questions are asked in the House of Commons whether men thrown out of work at Clock Face Colliery could claim the dole.
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Rev John Wakeford summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th JULY - 1st AUG. 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the St Helens MP's claim that a clerical sex scandal had been a conspiracy, a runaway coal tub kills a worker down Havannah Colliery in Parr, a busy August Bank Holiday weekend is predicted, a motorbike crashes at high speed in Warrington Road in Bold Heath, St Helens Ladies are set to play in the Isle of Man and the St Helens woman's demand for the restitution of her conjugal rights.
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Windle Hall summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th JULY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Parr boy who died after eating a poisonous plant at Carr Mill, the town's heroes are honoured in St Helens Police Court, the stealing of flowers from St Helens Cemetery, the rain-drenched fundraising fete in Eccleston Park, the St Helens miner's poem about paper boys, the plans for a new licensing law and why the will of the late chairman of Pilkington's had broken new ground.
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Hot weather cartoon summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th JULY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the extraordinary Tennyson Street mine accident coincidence, the baby's body discovered floating in the St Helens canal at Parr, the inside job thefts at the old Sutton Bond munitions plant, the fundraising Lowe House Carnival, why honesty was not the best policy for a Clock Face miner and the two respectable joiners charged with being drunk and disorderly in a passage near the YMCA.
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