St Helens History This Week

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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.
Victoria Park summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 16 - 22 NOVEMBER 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include NALGO's call for its members not to buy the Reporter because they disliked Ian Brandes' hard-hitting Municipal Matters column, the confusion over the closing of streets behind Westfield Street, the Toll Bar all-woman limousine service, pensioners accuse bus crews of rudeness over bus passes, the extraordinary battles between Haydock and Earlestown youths and St Helens Council are accused of being killjoys for refusing to allow music to be played at a charity event.
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Bold Colliery, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 9 - 15 NOVEMBER 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include concern over the toxic chemical waste tip in Burtonhead Road, a declaration that the fight against the reprieved Leathers Chemicals would continue, the high productivity of St Helens' coal mines, the thousands of cockroaches in a Derbyshire Hill home and health bosses accuse those campaigning against the new unit for the criminally insane of being irresponsible in their claims.
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Leathers Chemicals St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 NOVEMBER 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the earthquake that struck St Helens and led to 3,000 workers and students being evacuated from buildings, Leathers' appeal against St Helens Council's closure order is upheld by the Environment Minister, the car parking at St Helens Hospital that was causing chaos, the Battered Wives Home announces plans to expand and Whelan's defend placing sweets at supermarket checkouts.
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Hotties summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 OCT - 1 NOV 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the campaign against plans to add fluoride to the water supply, the planned extension to the Hotties safety patrol over Christmas, a claim of insufficient hospital beds for elderly patients, the successful Trident placement scheme, the opponents to the creation of Scott Clinic suffer a blow, a claim of a dangerously low allocation of nurses and the Sutton parrot called Bimbo with a heart of gold.
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Sherdley Park, St Helens 1970s summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 OCTOBER 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the chemical waste dumping in Burtonhead Road that put three men in hospital, Cowley Boys celebrate achieving high A-level pass rates, there's criticism of town centre hawkers, why a large shopping unit in the Tontine Arcade was not wanted, a claim that a Hands Off Providence Hospital campaign was telling lies and why the council's facelift in Derbyshire Hill would never be repeated.
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Rainhill Hospital St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 OCTOBER 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the concerns over staff shortages in St Helens hospitals, the plans to extend the Sankey Valley Linear Park from Havannah Lane in Parr to Newton's Common Road, the hooligans causing trouble for elderly residents in Parr, why bread sales in St Helens were expected to decline, the campaign against Scott Clinic at Rainhill and the St Helens mayor says sorry for calling cleaning ladies a rabble.
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Hotties Fishing St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 OCTOBER 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the fire at the old Rothery Radio depot on the corner of Lowe Street and North John Street, Sutton Manor Colliery is threatened with a shut down because of an NCB drivers' strike, a claim that Eccleston parents are apathetic, the plan to preserve the historic features of the Sankey Canal and a new coal seam is identified at Sutton Manor revealing the presence of millions of tons of coal.
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Mormons St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 28 SEPT - 4 OCT 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the public meeting that was called to save the closure-threatened Providence Hospital, Argos comes to St Helens with the opening of a store in LaGrange Arcade, the campaign against car theft in St Helens, the staggering cost of vandalism in the town, the new car park that was planned for St Helens and the drop in attendees at Boundary Road and Parr Baths despite the hot summer weather.
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Providence Hospital, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 21 - 27 SEPTEMBER 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the campaign to save Providence Hospital after plans were announced to cut funding, the Morris dancing row in Rainford, the possibility of a referendum on adding fluoride to the water supply, the emergency drought order, the likely end of half-day closing, the Boundary Road ban on women entering a snooker room and the St Helens Civic Society aim to shame owners of eyesore sites.
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Helena House St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 14 - 20 SEPTEMBER 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the controversial decision to add fluoride to the water supply, St Helens Hospital's Accident & Emergency Unit gets a night-time reprieve from closure, the rowdy Saturday nights at a Blackbrook Darby and Joan Club, the St Helens Newspaper goes compact, the decision to close Haydock Cottage Hospital is confirmed and the St Helens Civic Society decide to clean up the dirty town.
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Rainford Hall, Crank summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 7 - 13 SEPTEMBER 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a denial that psychiatric killers would be coming to Rainhill Hospital, a description of a magpie's reign of terror in Rivington Road, Dr Who comes to Preedy's in St Mary's Arcade, the new secret refuge for battered wives, a claim that campaign groups were deterring investment in the town and why the Westfield Street redevelopment meant there was no hope for Hope Street.
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