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.
Bold Colliery

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14 - 20 AUGUST 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the six-hour baby unit planned for Whiston Hospital, the shocking vandalism on the building site for the new Chester Lane Library, Sutton Transport's planned helicopter hire service, the men that lurked in Central Library in order to leer at women, there's criticism of the cost of the St Helens Show and the Rainhill actor-milkman who was delivering his milk to his customers in the evening.
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St Helens show summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7 - 13 AUGUST 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the pensioner who lost his pants on a bus and was then inundated with gifts of clothes, the unknown man who saved a new church in Blackbrook from an arson attack, plans to use the new Chester Lane library as a community centre, a heatwave strikes St Helens, the Back To School advertising feature and the child left in the lost children's marquee of the St Helens Show for seven hours.
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Summerland summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31 JULY - 6 AUGUST 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the new underpass road under the East Lancs Road, more enforcement notices for Leathers Chemicals, the St Helens victims of the Summerland leisure centre disaster in the Isle of Man, the reincarnation of the Parr British Legion, the 91-year-old Rainhill woman that burglars had forced out of her home and the customers that refused to leave a North Road chippy when a fire broke out.
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Robins Lane summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24 - 30 JULY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the vandalism at the start of the St Helens Show, the allowing of organised Sunday sport on council-run pitches, Billinge Council's plan to thwart an extension of quarrying on Billinge Hill, a blind Blackbrook typist has her appeal for a typewriter answered on the Jimmy Young Show and there is anger in Rainford after Lancashire County Council rejects plans for a new youth centre in the village.
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Walter Winterbottom summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17 - 23 JULY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the opening of the new baths in Prescot, an angry mothers' school blockade in Blackbrook, a campaign against computers at Pilks, concern over the future of Greenall's recreation club in Alder Hey Road, the crafty monkeys at Knowsley Safari Park and there are plans for a new Windleshaw RC Primary – but Margaret Thatcher rejects badly needed improvements to Moss Bank Primary School.
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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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