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