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.
Prince of Wales summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5th - 11th JULY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the visit to City Road and Victoria Park in St Helens by the Prince of Wales to meet discharged and disabled soldiers and sailors, a serious lorry trailer accident takes place in Corporation Street, a mob prevents miners from Billinge from working down Sutton Manor Colliery, there’s a new water supply for St Helens and the tragedy of the triplets in Herbert Street in Sutton.
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St Helens Ladies summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th JUNE - 4th JULY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the furious St Helens publicans who were angry over a proposed new licensing law, the man who said women degraded themselves by playing football, more criticism in St Helens Police Court of pillion riding on motorbikes, the fires caused by steam locomotives in the driest June for decades and St Helens miners meet in the Co-op Hall to denounce the settlement of the coal strike.
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derbac summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th JUNE 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Beecham's claim that taking their pills makes people more cheerful, why the slow post was upsetting the St Helens coroner, the new 'Children's Reporter' column in the St Helens Reporter, a judge makes a vow in St Helens County Court, a memorial tablet is unveiled in the Volunteer Hall, the inaugural St Helens Police Sports take place and the turns at the Theatre Royal and Hippodrome.
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1921 census cartoon summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th JUNE 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Sutton doctor's infidelity with other women leads to divorce, the 1921 census is taken in St Helens, two men are charged in St Helens Police Court with driving vehicles dangerously, another crop coal court case is heard, the man who foolishly boasted that he knocked policemen about like skittles and criticism from the Liverpool Echo of what they felt was a wobbly postal service.
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Liverpool Telephone Rates summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th JUNE 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Knowsley policemen who was fired at by IRA wire-cutting desperadoes, a coroner states his concern over the increasing death toll on the roads, six drinkers cause a Parr club to fear for its licence, the annual Prescot Show is held in Knowsley Park, the St Helens bigamist is sentenced at the Liverpool Assizes and the Liverpool telephone rates map that subscribers could purchase.
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Arthur Ellerington summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st MAY - 6th JUNE 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include uproar at a St Helens Town Council meeting over the sacking of a police officer, a St Helens bigamy case, a motor lorry tragedy in Eccleston Park, the dastardly Sinn Fein telephone wire cutting in Knowsley and Collins Green, a sale of Rainford pubs, 48 miners are summoned to court for ruining a Parr farmer's field and a man gives his views on Liverpool's foreigners.
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Coop stores summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th MAY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the large-scale thieving from an old munitions works in Sutton, the axing of Sunday postal deliveries in St Helens, the Clock Face miner with an extraordinary international background, the benefit cheque presented to a longstanding Saints scrum-half, Cowley School seek a new headmaster and a road tragedy near the Bottle and Glass in Rainford that demonstrated the need for a bypass.
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Ashtons Green Colliery summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd MAY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the seemingly insoluble problem of how to make Saints great again, the crop-coal mining tragedy of Glade Hall, the taking of Beecham's Pills supposedly to make men more virile, how the industrial shut-down during the coal strike was benefitting the environment and the Berry's Lane miner who claimed he'd taken a wheelbarrow from Ashton's Green Colliery to stop it being stolen.
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Higher Parr Street summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th MAY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the riotous scenes in Higher Parr Street, the end of the crop coal being dug in St Helens' old surface mines, the novelty of female magistrates sitting together in St Helens Police Court, the miner who was considered to be the pest of Parr, the St Helens Labour MP James Sexton accuses the government of misleading the public and a series of terrorist attacks takes place in Liverpool.
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Pip Squeak Wilfred summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th MAY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the well-meaning Sutton lottery that led to large fines being imposed, the industrial scale operation by striking miners to illegally dig coal out of St Helens' surface mines, a "what's on" guide at the Theatre Royal and the Hippodrome Music Hall, the strange Prescot lorry painted speed prosecution and the second anniversary celebrations of Pip, Squeak and Wilfred of the Daily Mirror.
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Coal trade peace summary

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th APRIL - 2nd MAY 1921)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the many prosecutions in St Helens arising from the coal strike, the pitiful plight of hungry schoolchildren, a St Helens boy's claim for compensation after injuring a finger at the Prescot Cable Works, the Parr miner who impersonated a man in Ireland in order to obtain some strike pay and Beecham's claim that you can be at your best at forty and thoroughly fit at fifty by taking their pills.
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