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.
Bold Colliery summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 AUGUST 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the declining chimney sweep business in St Helens, the safety fears over the opening of a new secure unit for criminals at Rainhill Hospital, the opportunity to become a member of the 900 Club at Bold Colliery's Centenary Open Day, the elderly Blackbrook man who said his prized garden had been ravished, the water restrictions being imposed, the end of the controversial Atlas Street Market and the man who built his own car out of aluminium and spare parts.
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Mormons summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 AUGUST 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the skateboard bans in St Helens shops, the Beecham's women's victory under the Equal Pay Act, the heatwave's increase in beer sales, St Helens Council campaigns to stamp out child battering, the two new cafes planned for Taylor Park and Sherdley Park, the Clock Face Road grid gutter thieves and the danger to children from drowning and disease who bathed in the canal or old clay pits.
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Bull and Dog roundabout, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 AUGUST 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Atlas Street market court battle, the Francoise discotheque in Waterloo Street's Beach Party Night, the fall-out from Leathers Chemicals that damaged cars in Lancots Lane, the oil painting that went missing from the St Helens Show, the dangerous Sutton roundabout, the heatwave strike and the inquest is held on the little girl that tragically drowned in the Hotties in St Helens Canal.
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Holy Trinity Church, Parr Mount summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 AUGUST 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the disabled drivers that were protesting against the possible loss of their invalidity cars, a claim that a new council house in Thatto Heath was in an unbelievable shambles, junior doctors at Whiston and St Helens hospitals refuse to join a work to rule, Rainhill Village Hall is saved from closure, Lennons announce a big rise in profits and the St Helens Reporter's Autumn Bride wedding feature.
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Rockware Glass summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 JULY - 2 AUGUST 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a rejection of fluoride being added to the water supply, the prospect of Newton-le-Willows becoming the oil capital of the north, the back to Lancashire campaign gathers pace in St Helens, how sunshine had boosted attendances at the St Helens Show, the major incident at Rockware Glass, the opening of a new nightclub and why Manweb and Merseyside Transport were both losing money.
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Carr Mill Dam summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 JULY 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the opening of the new St Helens Registry Office, the start of Newton Wakes creates a headache for workers at the Sankey Sugar refinery, the fire at Cowley Boys School begun by two boys below the age of criminal responsibility, Cobalt Hi-Fi's new music centre offering true hi-fi quality, the fierce row over Carr Mill Dam and the objections to plans to dump toxic waste in an ex-clay pit.
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Leathers Chemicals, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 JULY 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a worker's death at Leathers Chemicals, why Percy the penguin could not have a partner, the stigma of living in Beth Avenue, the houses in St Helens that were breaking the £10,000 price barrier, the forklift truck accident at Pilks, the Kirkland Street motorcycle shop that had been repeatedly burgled and how the heatwave was leading to big increases in sales of ice lollies and drink.
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Hotties fishing summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 JULY 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include how the heatwave and drought were causing increased prices of vegetables, the Turkish bath temperatures that were being experienced on some buses, the young Sutton girl that drowned in the Hotties, the seventy schoolchildren who were forced to walk 7 miles home, the fuss when a girl gets a job as a printing apprentice and a call for schoolchildren to undertake work placements.
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Lennons summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JUNE - 5 JULY 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the eleven CAMRA pubs that were listed in St Helens, the genesis of Willow Tree Primary School off Leach Lane, the Cowley Gala takes place in blazing hot sunshine, Terence Lennon quits as head of his supermarket group, the rise in alcoholics being treated at a Hardshaw Street clinic and the row in Grange Park when an angry councillor turned up at a Reporter letterwriter's door.
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Eccleston Parish Church, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JUNE 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the children who were dicing with death on the railway at Clock Face, there's a reprieve for the death list houses in Rainford and Haydock, two St Helens churches complain of vandalism, the opposition to the proposed transport depot in Washway Lane, the job vacancies at Bold Colliery, the campaign to return St Helens to Lancashire and the banning of cigarette sales in St Helens' hospitals.
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Holy Cross Church St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 JUNE 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Windlehurst gas explosion that injured three workers, the fantastic success of Parr Swimming Baths, there's criticism of a community after a man lay dead in his Parr flat for over 10 days, the phantom bell ringer at Holy Cross Church, the backlog of storm damage repairs, the St John's Ambulance Brigade's disaster appeal and the campaign to report child batterers in St Helens.
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