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.
Knowsley Safari bus summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 31 MARCH - 6 APRIL 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include an update on the former Kimmicks land reclamation site in Jackson Street, why the Common Market was stopping St Helens from installing new boundary road signs, there's a decline in visitors to Knowsley Safari Park, a cautious thumbs up for male midwives, hopes rise over an agreement to resolve the Rainhill Hospital dispute, the Blott Brothers expand the Tony Sampson store and the explosion on a building site that was caused by the lighting of a cigar.
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St Nicholas Church, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 MARCH 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Barclays Bank robbery, a vow to stop building big council estates in St Helens after the failed experiments of Beth Avenue and Four Acre, why government ministers were investigating the redundancy crisis at Pilks, the Sherdley Park Golf Shop, the musical chairs at the town's two cinemas and the donation of an electric wheelchair that offered much more freedom for a little Whiston girl.
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Robins Lane, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 MARCH 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the peacock slaughter in Sutton, the treasure that a boy found in a Rainhill gutter, the closure of a St Helens tea factory leads to 130 job losses, the pushback against the Leathers closure decision begins, the second stage of the Victoria Square one-way system kicks in and the elderly folk living on the Four Acre estate that were too frightened to leave their homes at night through mobs of youths.
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Leathers, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 MARCH 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a tour of the red brick and concrete jungle of Beth Avenue, St Helens Council votes to close down Leathers Chemicals of Lancots Lane, the kind-hearted Triplex workers undertake their kidney machine installation, the pioneering child fostering scheme that used advertising, the successes of the Rockware charity committee and the rumour that Oxley's was to be replaced by a nightclub.
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Beth Avenue, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 MARCH 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a public meeting hears the human misery, loneliness and anger of Beth Avenue residents, the postman that was robbed of his mail bag in Eccleston, the rebel Thatto Heath landlord throws in the towel, the many complaints from the stallholders in the new Tontine Market, the 126th St Helens Catholic Charity Ball takes place and the first community centre in St Helens opens in Chester Lane.
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Kimmicks St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 FEB - 2 MARCH 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include Pilkington's shock announcement of job losses, the schemes to reclaim derelict land, the digger vandalism in Merton Bank, the unhappy residents of two St Helens housing estates, Olympic gold medallist Mary Peters comes to St Helens, a TV comic storms off the stage at Moss Lane and the extraordinary court case involving Greenall Whitley and the landlord of the Alexandra Hotel.
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Victoria Square, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 FEBRRUARY 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the new one-way system that was introduced in Victoria Square, the lorry at the new Tontine Market that got stuck in a drain, Rainford's new mobile surgery, a new headmistress for Cowley Girls School, there's a celebration of 75 years of glassmaking at Pocket Nook and the proposed £2 million Higher Parr Street scheme to rid the town of congestion is delayed through lack of cash.
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Millican and Nesbitt summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 FEBRRUARY 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include Nevin's fine for misleading customers in their pricing, the mice-chasing Parr boy who was trapped in mud, the big rises in rates bills that were on the cards, a campaign against deadly weapons in drugs cabinets, the St Helens Treasurer blows his top over choosy council tenants and there's more help for the kidney sufferer who was set to have a dialysis machine delivered by helicopter.
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St Helens Theatre Royal summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 FEBRRUARY 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the burglary that took place at Babyworld, the Rainhill rape claim that a judge said was disgusting but instructed a jury to reject, the row over St Helens Town Hall car parking spaces, the fire at Whiston Labour Club, the disco ban in Eccleston Village Hall, the rise in demand for allotments through the high levels of price inflation and the partying pools' winners at a Langtree Street shirt factory.
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Providence Hospital summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 JAN - 2 FEB 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the burglaries in the new Tontine Market caused by security failures, the car sharing to work scheme in the Reporter, the new Francoise night spot promises to bring a barrel full of fun to St Helens, the anger over the delay in a vote to close Leathers, the periscope for a nosey parker in hospital and the Triplex workers generous gesture in helping a colleague's wife use a kidney machine.
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Tom o'Connor comedian summary
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FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 JANUARY 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the opposition in St Helens to male midwives being permitted, comic Tom O'Connor returns to the Rael Brook factory in Rainhill, the Labour party votes to shut down Leathers Chemicals, British Sidac admits to being in severe trouble and the Area Health Authority hits back at claims that dangerous criminals from top security mental hospitals would be coming to Rainhill Hospital.
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