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.
Sefton Place summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10 - 16 JULY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 14 stories include a claim that Sutton folk were being slowly poisoned, there's anger over Greenalls treatment of tenant landlords, St Helens dinner ladies complain about the food they dished up to schoolchildren, the Bold Colliery Band appeals for new junior recruits, the straw solution to a noisy Rainford pump and the scheme to prevent traffic chaos when resurfacing work started on the East Lancs.
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Windle Hall summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3 - 9 JULY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's sixteen stories include the terrifying armed raid on Matty Coan’s betting office in Thatto Heath, the end of Providence Hospital's hand to mouth days, a shopping feature on Rainford in the St Helens Reporter, the opening of Whiston Hospital's new maternity wing, the new Gay Girl Wig Boutique in Lewis's Church Street department store and Lowe House's plan to thwart stained glass window vandals.
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Carr Mill Dam summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26 JUNE - 2 JULY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the late night pong over Parr, the controversial closure of Cowley Hill Maternity Hospital, the million pound facelift for homes in Derbyshire Hill, the Billinge sewage discharge that caused a fish disaster in Carr Mill Dam, there's good news for Rainford Guides over their new hut, the 3-year-old boy rescued from a blazing bedroom and some heavy fines are imposed for not returning library books.
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Bus summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19 - 25 JUNE 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the end of the line for the Thatto Heath Old Men's Benevolent Fund, the Rainhill inquiry over proposed house building on greenbelt land, more atmospheric fallout in Sutton, the space-age Pilkington suit, an update on the refuse lorries trundling through Rainford to the new Holiday Moss tip and how the shortage of bus crews in St Helens was leading to the axing of more bus services.
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Hughie Green summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12 - 18 JUNE 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the storm over the playing of Sunday sport in St Helens parks, a price is put on the shocking level of vandalism taking place in St Helens, Hughie Green returns to Eccleston to open St Julie's Gala, the battle of Sutton Park between Parr and Sutton boys, the broken glass sculpture at the Pilkington Glass Museum and the Peasley Cross priest that banned a child from being christened.
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Beth Avenue St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (5 - 11 JUNE 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the tree blaze in Blackbrook caused by thieving magpies, the theft of £14,000 worth of whisky in Sherdley Road, little Tracy Topping thanks the firemen that saved her life, there's an update on the Beth Avenue council estate in Sutton, Nevins open their new superstore in Robins Lane, the generous gift of a large art collection to the town and the feared loss of the Chester zoo of Rainford.
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Savoy St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29 MAY - 4 JUNE 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the £1 million computer brain that was going to be installed at Scholes Park in Thatto Heath, fury over an unused car park in Parr that had replaced a play area, the Providence Hospital fundraisers, Hardshaw Garage's space-age image, Taylor Brothers knock-down sale, a what's on guide and the dangerous acetylene cylinder that was dumped on waste land in Southport Street in Parr.
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Pilkington HQ St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22 - 28 MAY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the football stars coming to St Helens to learn how to be a manager, the rescue of doomed ducklings at Pilkingtons Prescot Road HQ, an assessment of the glue-sniffing craze in St Helens, why Hughie Green was making a return visit to Eccleston, the 91-year-old Rainhill woman attacked in her bed and St Helens is listed as the second worst place in the country for its provision of GP surgeries.
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St Helens Borough Police summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15 - 21 MAY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the high crime rate in St Helens, an update on last month's art raid in Hartington Road, the two pioneering St Helens kidney transplants involving siblings, a profile of the St Helens Marriage Guidance Council, the new dual carriageway scheme planned to ease town centre traffic and the man that stabbed a stranger after watching Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange at the Savoy Cinema.
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Lenny the Lion summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8 - 14 MAY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Grange Park secondary school geography lesson from the air, there's a mass escape of baboons from Knowsley Safari Park, Ashalls car dealers are fined for breaching Sunday trading laws, Lenny the Lion comes to Hamblett School, more on the lengthy telephone waiting list in St Helens, the robbery in Peasley Cross Lane and St Helens' first kidney transplant is judged a success.
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Pilkington fountain summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th MAY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's fifteen stories include the Siding Lane chemical waste inferno in Rainford, a policeman complains about reckless horse riding on Eccleston Fields, plans to create the Pilkington Fountain in Church Square, a three-day festival is announced for Rainford, a new lease of life is planned for Sutton Manor Colliery and there's an assurance that the end of the acid fallout in Sutton from Leathers Chemicals was in sight.
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