St Helens History This Week

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Bringing History to Life from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago!

ST HELENS 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
This page is a series of weekly articles that describe llfe in the Lancashire town in the 1970s and which are updated every Sunday morning.
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
This page is a series of weekly articles that describe llfe in St Helens in Lancashire in the 1970s and which are updated every Sunday morning.
Invacar summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 NOVEMBER 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the massive demand for petrol to beat Denis Healey's budget, there's anger after Suttons Transport deny anglers access to their fishing pond, the St Helens newsagents involved with the Echo's Place the Ball contest, there are complaints about Rediffusion's pioneering cable television service, the St Helens disabled drivers group that wanted to ban the Invacar and the St Helens Mayor's annual Christmas appeal for donations of toys and food parcels is launched.
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Providence Hospital summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 NOVEMBER 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the drastic cuts in public services that were forecast for next year, the death of a Sutton boy while taking a lift on a lorry, the campaign to recruit more nurses through a nursing chat shop, the storm over the council's housing death list, the death of a well-known St Helens men's outfitter and the murky water from a Pilkington's chemicals tip that was cascading through business premises.
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Eccleston Parish Church summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 NOVEMBER 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include St Helens-born comedian Bernie Clifton's appearance on TV's Opportunity Knocks, the plans to extend the 9-hole golf course at Sherdley Park, the Eccleston ship in a bottle craftsman, there's a resolution of the St Helens College strike, the faith healer working wonders at St Helens Town Hall and more on the ancient church clock in Eccleston that was reputed to have struck seventeen times.
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Helena House summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 OCT - 3 NOV 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the improving stinking brook, the many dogs in the St Helens district that received gunshot wounds, the dwindling number of glass jobs at Pilks, the newsagents offering a new Place The Ball service, the Helena House dividend stamp competition, why boxing champion John Conte would not be coming to St Helens and the kind volunteers that were visiting friendless patients in Rainhill Hospital.
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St Helens College, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 21 - 27 OCTOBER 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the massive cost of vandalism on building sites, the Chain Lane Ratepayers win their battle with their developers, a new mayoral limousine is ordered for St Helens, a knock-back for a telephone kiosk in Rainhill, Roughdales brickmaking works are modernised, redundancies are announced at Pilks' Cowley Hill site and why Charles Street was alive with witches, wizards and hobgoblins.
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Ambulance Station St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 OCTOBER 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Pilkington's deferral of their controversial float glass scheme, the Catholic school headmaster convicted of indecency towards a boy, the criticism of St Helens Ambulance Service by its own boss, an update on the proposed new bus station for St Helens, Radio City prepares to launch, Rockware announce a big investment programme and there's details of the Theatre Royal's Christmas panto.
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Eccleston Parish Church, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 7 - 13 OCTOBER 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the second general election of the year, the train that had to stop at Rainford after thieves stole cables, the St Helens Reporter describes how it will be going compugraphic, the Eccleston church clock that needed rewinding once a week and had struck seventeen times, the shocking vandalism in St Helens toilets and why a tiger had gone across a zebra crossing in Corporation Street.
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Parish Church fire, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 30 SEPT - 6 OCT 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the non-paying pirate football teams in Whiston and Rainhill, Leslie Spriggs is involved in a car crash, there is a strike at British Sidac in Lancots Lane, a library book fines amnesty is planned to retrieve missing books, the party from the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Westfield Street who were beaten up in Germany and there is another call for a linear park to be created across Rainford village.
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Kimmicks, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 - 29 SEPTEMBER 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the clearance of the Kimmicks chemical waste heaps in Jackson Street, the new Radio City prepares to launch 24 hours a day, there's good news for the fire damaged Rainford High School, a smokeless zone is planned for Sutton, Bold and Clock Face, the winners of the Rainford Arts and Crafts exhibition and the St Helens MP angers the campaigners against Pilks' proposed float glass plant.
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Plaza, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 SEPTEMBER 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include details of the new one-way traffic system in Victoria Square, the boys responsible for the Rockware fire appear in court, the historic documents acquired by Central Library, fears mount over job cuts at Pilks' Ravenhead factory, the award-winning gardens at Rainhill railway station and the couple that were shocked to learn that the council had knocked down their house in Prescot Road!
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Bold power station St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 SEPTEMBER 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the welly throwing that took place at Rainhill Hospital, there's fury over the alternative sites for Pilkington's new float glass plant, a Chain Lane mother expresses her anger at her son being denied a free bus pass to travel to Cowley, a council house row in Sutton Heath involving a divorced couple and St Helens councillors describe their own municipal newspaper as sensationalist.
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