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.
Sutton Manor Colliery sign summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 18 - 24 MARCH 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the twenty-eight-year-long wait for a council house, the first St Helens streaker to be brought before the courts receives a hefty fine, the 95-year-old woman from Clinkham Wood who had her gas meter ripped out, more vandalism at St Cuthbert's School, why ex-miners were described as flocking back to the pits and the brave postman who fought off his attackers in Ormskirk Street.
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St Theresa school summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 11 - 17 MARCH 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the rebellious householders in Derbyshire Hill Road who were angry about having to contribute to the upkeep of some dirt tracks, the daring whisky robbery in Sherdley Road and kidnap of a night watchman, the sewer blockade in Harrison Street in Sutton, hopes rise for the Saints player who'd fractured his skull and concerns are raised over the redevelopment of Rainford homes.
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Snoopy Club summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 4 - 10 MARCH 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the 6-month-old baby abandoned at Blackbrook, the glue-sniffing craze hits Parr, the streaking craze comes to Prescot, how local government reorganisation was leading to a big rise in the rates, Snoopy from the Reporter interviews Liverpool manager Bill Shankly, the passing of Pickavance's matriarch and Squeak the Sherdley Park penguin has a narrow squeak at the hands of vandals.
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Dentons Green Lane St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 FEB - 3 MARCH 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the result of the General Election in St Helens, a new library is planned for Blackbrook, complaints that Dentons Green Lane had been turned into a danger zone, the preservation plans for four historic Eccleston cottages, Sutton Manor Colliery miners' mercy coal shipment to Northern Ireland and the Vicar of St Peter's Church in Parr criticises the parents of children that vandalise his churchyard.
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Woolworth St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 19 - 25 FEBRUARY 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens grandmother who said she was fighting next week's general election because she was fed up with squabbling politicians, the award-winning nuclear detectives in their Eccleston bunker, the bitter row over a secret slum housing survey, a call to end half-day closing in St Helens and the boy who was blind in one eye that credited a faith healer with having improved his sight.
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St Theresa school summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 12 - 18 FEBRUARY 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the town's champion female fork lift truck driver, the pack of dogs frightening the children at St Theresa's school in Sutton Manor, the 14-week-long ambulance workers dispute is settled, the tough guy trees to beat the vandals, the stormy Islands Brow cup game that had to be abandoned and a Clock Face milkman is praised for raising the alarm after a ninety-three-year-old customer had fallen.
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St Helens College summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 5 - 11 FEBRUARY 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the dispute at St Helens Technical College over a new code of discipline for college students, local miners prepare to take part in the national pay strike, the plans to build a new Windleshaw Infants School are shelved, the St Helens man that claimed to have invented the car without a gearbox and the Rainford council clerk that forgot to order silver souvenir shields for outgoing councillors.
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Rainhill Hospital summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 JAN - 4 FEB 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the big drop in air pollution in St Helens, the circus animals living in Burtonhead Road, the macho Royal Navy recruitment campaign, the big rise in drug overdose cases in St Helens, the farmers' concerns after gales struck the huge Rainford rubbish tip, the pigeons that were slaughtered in Thatto Heath and the leader of St Helens Council refuses to answer questions from the St Helens Reporter.
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Pilkington head office summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 JANUARY 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the explosion at a College Street electricity sub-station that may have been arson, a letter bomb explodes at Pilkington's HQ in Prescot Road injuring a security man, the pioneering female Open University graduate, Sutton Manor miners discuss the bad conditions of their workplace and the controversy over Post Office proposals for a single daily letters collection in Rainford.
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Hotties fishing summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 JANUARY 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the armed robbery at McLean and Appleton's Prescot Road garage, the fishing for tropical fish in the Hotties, vandalism makes Billinge Hospital consider closing its toilets, the claim that Middlehurst Avenue in Windle was being turned into a strip joint, the appeal for the return of medicine bottles, the proposed extension to Robins Lane School and why it was the end of an era in Sutton.
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Leathers summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 JANUARY 1974

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the blockade of mud-splattering lorries in Burtonhead Road, how the three-day working week was affecting St Helens' businesses, Leathers' demand to dump their waste into public sewers, the plans to turn Birchley Hall in Billinge into a medieval village, the motor vehicle prosecutions under the Trades Descriptions Act and the remarkable Rainhill letter collection from a bygone age.
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