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.
Bus, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 2 - 8 FEBRUARY 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the death of a St Helens boxer who sparred with Jack Dempsey, Cowley girls are allowed to wear slacks during the winter months, the Triplex plan to boost workers job security, the council's notepad brainchild to address people's complaints, the Golden Lion Gun Club lose their appeal against eviction and there's criticism of the fire service's slow response to call outs since reorganisation.
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Capitol Cinema St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 JAN - 1 FEB 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the pram-pushing mothers who barricaded Merton Bank Road concerned over road safety, the testing of a new Bold diving bell and compression chamber, the proposed ban on a dangerous new children's game, why families in the Blackbrook area were boycotting their local surgery and a female Chief Inspector within the St Helens Division is placed in charge of policemen for the first time.
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Mormons, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 JANUARY 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the fire at the St Helens Greyhound Stadium, the plans to stage a re-enactment of the Rainhill Trials, Windle Parish Council consider buying the historic Windle Grange, work begins on the first Mormon place of worship in St Helens, the Miss Françoise 1976 contest, the town's MP campaigns against fly-by-night traders and the public inquiry into Leathers Chemicals comes to an end.
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Fleece Hotel, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 JANUARY 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include an update on Leathers Chemicals' appeal hearings at St Helens Town Hall, the little girls that separately flew thousands of miles to St Helens, the death in an industrial accident in Sutton, the plans to open two dog tracks in Jackson Street are rejected, the boom in ear piercing in St Helens and a complaint from a bank customer after being booked for parking on double-yellow lines.
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Tyrers, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 JANUARY 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the cutbacks that were proposed for the 1976 St Helens Show, footballer Ian Callaghan visits McLean and Appleton's garage to hand out competition prizes, there's bad news for the Ravenhead Action Committee, the mass rally of women Labour club members, the death of comedian Bonk Shaw and the public inquiry into Leathers Chemicals' appeal against its closure order begins.
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Rockware Glass, St Helens

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 DEC 1975 - 4 JAN 1976

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the road improvements that were planned for St Helens town centre, a discussion on how to stop the plague of thefts from council building sites, the sale of land to Pilkingtons to create a new access road, Rockware Glass's lighter milk bottles, BICC in Prescot admit to having a tough and disappointing year and the over-addressed Christmas card that proved a poser for the postie.
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Morecambe and Wise summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 DECEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the vandalised Christmas crib at St Helens Town Hall, the reduced need for students to deliver the Christmas mail in the town, the vain attempt by a boy to save a baby's life in Sutton, the Christmas TV guide in the Reporter, a bigger mortuary for the Town Hall and the shoppers that fell down the stairs at the new Tontine Market are told they were all wearing the wrong type of shoes.
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Theatre Royal, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 DECEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the thousands of Pilkington pensioners and widows that were due to receive a Christmas bumper bonus, the flying chunks of metal that were described as striking a Sutton bowling club like lethal bullets, the cold and bleak Christmas that was facing pensioners in Sutton, the Mayor's Toys Appeal and Eccleston is voted best village in the North West's Britain in Bloom competition.
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Jaws summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 DECEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens connection with Jaws, the enormous potential cost of closing down Leathers Chemicals, the Mayor's New Toy Appeal for deprived children at Christmas, the robbery at the North and South Eccleston Labour Club, the ruthless intruders preying on pensioners in Grange Park and the true account of the supposedly homeless couple that were living in a tent in Newton-le-Willows.
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Snoopy Club summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 DECEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Sutton schoolgirl's tights that were peppered with minute holes by fallout, the bus that dragged a woman passenger thirty yards after her handbag got trapped in an exit door, prime minister Harold Wilson opens a new health centre in Whiston, Pilkington's reduced profits through a global recession and the mystery of the barely used new Citizens Advice Bureau office located in Billinge.
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Leathers summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 NOVEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Rainhill schoolgirls' petition for better bus services, the date is set for the Leathers Chemicals public inquiry, the new Rent-A-Claus Santa scheme, a Sue Ryder home is set to open in Billinge, the Church Street shoe shop hit by a fire and theft within days of opening and the five-year-old child with a broken wrist who was turned away from St Helens Hospital's casualty department.
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