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.
Town Hall

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th Oct. - 3rd Nov. 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the curious case of the tooled up ex-soldier at the Hippodrome Theatre, the cruelty of boys in a Bold farmyard, the "worn-out" Corporation employees wanted as toilet attendants, a suicide in the St Helens Canal, the free health lectures at the Town Hall, the Nutgrove man who defended his wife with a punch and there is a boost for Labour in the first council elections for six years.
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Arthur Ellerington

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th October 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories from a century ago include the runaway horse in Bridge Street, a knife attack in Glover Street, how complacency in Clock Face Colliery had taken a man's life, the Clog and Stocking Fund for barefoot children in St Helens, the filthy state of Bold's privies and ashpits, the excitable woman in Higher Parr Street and the Lugsmore Lane bootmaker charged with keeping his shop open after hours.
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Clock Face Colliery

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th October 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drunken sailor who fired a revolver in Park Road, a curious Clock Face Colliery pay mix up, proposed action to remedy the regular flooding in Sutton, the "particularly mean theft" of a watch from a house in Westfield Street, the "loafer of no fixed abode" returns to court, the boom in pastimes within St Helens' parks and the Parr errand boy burglar who stole coppers for sweets.
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Maurice Costello Cup

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th October 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the fear of a measles epidemic in St Helens, the violent husband of Vincent Street and his suffering wife of thirty years, the town's Peace Day babies receive a presentation, the Sunday gamblers of Recreation Street, an update on the Lowe House Memorial Fund, the effects on the town of the national rail strike and the 20-strong child performers Haley's Juveniles appear at the Hippodrome.
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St Helens Tram

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th Sept. - 6th Oct. 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drunken soldier in the Church Street rifle range, St Helens Corporation takes over the running of the town’s trams, the creation of Blackbrook's West End, the effect of the national rail strike in St Helens, deaths in Lea Green and Clock Face collieries, St Helens' picture house prices are increased and the architectural gem Sutton Grange is declared unfit for human habitation.
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Sangers

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th September 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the banana robbery in the market, Sanger's Circus and Menagerie perform in Peasley Cross, the Bold farmer who broke the rules on potato wart disease, the "wonderful" rat-trap on display at the Fleece Hotel, the hapless burglar of a Church Street jewellers, the joiners and moulders of St Helens go on strike and a mob threatens the police over a pitch and toss raid in Gerards Bridge.
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Boundary Road Baths

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd September 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the man who died while bathing at Boundary Road baths, the Sherdley Colliery coal thief, a fire takes place in St Helens market, the quarrelsome neighbours of Newton Road, Newton's estate agent and auctioneer, Rainford Council wins its battle with the railway company, an auction of the former Knowsley Park military camp and the Parr pit that a miner said had a "gasometer at your nose".
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Gamble Institute

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th September 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Corporation's war on rats, an ejectment order for the choosy Vincent Street tenant, the furious driving of a motor car in Higher Parr Street, the Sutton landlord who stole a lodger's watch, the Gamble Institute's evening classes, the last St Helens' military unit returns home from the war and the low Peasley Cross bridge that could decapitate passengers standing up on open-top trams.
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Engine and Tender

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th September 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the distribution of the St Helens Heroes Fund, the little girls that damaged spuds on Leach Hall Farm, trouble on a Boundary Road tram, a Saturday night punch up in Bold Street, the "simply scandalous" behaviour at Ravenhead Colliery, a death on the railway line at Pocket Nook and the arrest of the singing collier from Thatto Heath and the three-hundred-strong mob that tried to free him.
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Rainford Village Hall

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th August - 1st Sept. 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include late night violence by two brothers in Crook Street, the Thatto Heath miner who shot his dog and gave it a slow death because his wife aggravated him, an extraordinary case of childbirth in Haydock, night poaching and two days of peace celebrations in Rainford, a theft from the Oxford Picturedrome in Duke Street and the disabled ex-soldier from Borough Road charged with pension fraud.
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Allanson Street

IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th August 1919)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the midnight bullyragging in Allanson Street, the Silkstone Street father who was addicted to meths, the Vicar of Ravenhead laments a decline in church attendances, there's juvenile depravity at a Prescot picture house, the man from Oldfield Street who led a double life with a Sutton girl, the boys prosecuted for stealing clover from a field and the Ravenhead boys' card playing mischief.
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