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.
Beth Avenue summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th MARCH 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the new super-loos being built in St Helens, the jet age grannie of Carnegie Crescent, Alan Whalley dubs Beth Avenue houses "Downtown Morocco", the crossing danger of Elton Head Road, the death of John Molyneux VC, the terrified old lady of Somerset Street that kids called Old Nanny Grunt and the Government tells the town to put its house in order before complaining about pollution.
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Green Shield stamps

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th MARCH 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the pain-crazed dog that ran along the East Lancs with a rabbit trap on its leg, Parr is dubbed the dustbin of the town, a modernisation scheme for old council homes is announced, a Green Shield Stamps advertising feature is in the Reporter, the bizarre personal questions that were asked of job applicants by Linpac Plastics and the lucky lad that fell off a Sutton railway bridge late at night.
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Parr Stocks Fire Station St Helens

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th MARCH 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's nineteen stories include Pilkingtons' shock announcement of a glass tank closure at their Grove Street sheetworks, the expansion of one-man buses in St Helens, a campaign for more newspaper sellers in Rainford, a Down Your Way advertising feature in the Reporter, the dangerous Dorothy Street dump, the Duke of Edinburgh plans to come to St Helens but Queen Mary's reign in Taylor Park comes to an end.
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Parr Stocks fair summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th FEB. - 6th MARCH 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a hefty fine for selling obscene books in Bickerstaffe Street, the new trial of town centre taxi ranks, Silcock's Annual Pleasure Fair in Parr, the boy sniper at a St Helens soldier's wedding, the opposition to proposals to build homes on a Rainhill pub's bowling green and the Carr Mill Service Station's concern that the monster East Lancs road scheme would drive his business into the ground.
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Helena House summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th FEBRUARY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the end of the miners' national strike, worries over the water supply situation in St Helens, the Congregational Church leaders in Ormskirk Street that were gassed by their central heating system, the Sutton explosion after a North Sea gas conversion, the vandalism of Haresfinch's public loos and the monster scheme on the East Lancs Road that was expected to cause monster hold-ups.
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Trolley bus summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th FEBRUARY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 16 stories include the Derbyshire Hill woman who refused to have electricity in her home, another post office robbery takes place in Cambridge Road, the hole-in-the-heart Haydock boy returns to school, more on the power cuts in St Helens, the creation of the St Helens Trolley Bus Society, action's taken to address ambulance men's concerns and vandals cause a near-train disaster at Marshalls Cross.
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Ambulance station summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th FEBRUARY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include damning criticism of the St Helens Ambulance Service from its own staff, the packed family planning clinic in Bickerstaffe Street that was embarrassing its female clients, the Rainhill woman who found a fly in her sausage, the brazen Cambridge Road post office robbery, a power cuts rota is organised for St Helens and the egg and sausage artist of Duke Street is back in Whalley's World.
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Bold Power Station summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st JAN. - 6th FEB. 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include Beecham's prosecution of Dave Whelan's supermarket in Sutton for selling their medicines too cheaply, Providence Hospital closes in on its fundraising target, the "ignorant savages" push back against criticism of miners, the Prescot Road dancing school courts the kids, Greenall's leap in profits and oil tankers slip past a picket line into Bold Power Station under cover of darkness.
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Leslie Spriggs Christopher Chattaway summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th JANUARY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the explosive situation in Billinge when a car carrying gelignite crashes, Pierre the Clown comes to St Helens schools to talk teeth, the Carr Mill garage in trouble for opening on a Sunday, the taxi-driver who claimed he was brainwashed by his radio, panto time at the Theatre Royal and the St Helens MP puts down a Commons motion deploring the lowering of moral standards on television.
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Greenalls summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd JANUARY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 15 stories include the shock closure announcement of Greenall Whitley's Hall Street brewery, a Bold Colliery pitman describes his weekly pittance, concern over a dangerous stretch of Crank Road, a double-decker bus crashes in Prescot Road, proposals are made for a linear park in Rainford, Saints successfully trial a 6-tackle rule and St Helens Council approves 7 major road improvement schemes.
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Dollies summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th JANUARY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the dollies in a dust up in Prescot Road, Harold Wilson visits Prescot Employment Exchange, the coal strike forces some St Helens' schools to consider closing, the house-building and slum demolition situation in St Helens, a 13-year-old boy's brotherly heroism in Sutton Manor, there's a Reporter feature on Westfield Street and the town's last trolleybus is saved from the scrapyard.
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