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 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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Savoy St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29 MAY - 4 JUNE 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the £1 million computer brain that was going to be installed at Scholes Park in Thatto Heath, fury over an unused car park in Parr that had replaced a play area, the Providence Hospital fundraisers, Hardshaw Garage's space-age image, Taylor Brothers knock-down sale, a what's on guide and the dangerous acetylene cylinder that was dumped on waste land in Southport Street in Parr.
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Pilkington HQ St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22 - 28 MAY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the football stars coming to St Helens to learn how to be a manager, the rescue of doomed ducklings at Pilkingtons Prescot Road HQ, an assessment of the glue-sniffing craze in St Helens, why Hughie Green was making a return visit to Eccleston, the 91-year-old Rainhill woman attacked in her bed and St Helens is listed as the second worst place in the country for its provision of GP surgeries.
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St Helens Borough Police summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15 - 21 MAY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the high crime rate in St Helens, an update on last month's art raid in Hartington Road, the two pioneering St Helens kidney transplants involving siblings, a profile of the St Helens Marriage Guidance Council, the new dual carriageway scheme planned to ease town centre traffic and the man that stabbed a stranger after watching Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange at the Savoy Cinema.
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Lenny the Lion summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8 - 14 MAY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Grange Park secondary school geography lesson from the air, there's a mass escape of baboons from Knowsley Safari Park, Ashalls car dealers are fined for breaching Sunday trading laws, Lenny the Lion comes to Hamblett School, more on the lengthy telephone waiting list in St Helens, the robbery in Peasley Cross Lane and St Helens' first kidney transplant is judged a success.
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Pilkington fountain summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th MAY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's fifteen stories include the Siding Lane chemical waste inferno in Rainford, a policeman complains about reckless horse riding on Eccleston Fields, plans to create the Pilkington Fountain in Church Square, a three-day festival is announced for Rainford, a new lease of life is planned for Sutton Manor Colliery and there's an assurance that the end of the acid fallout in Sutton from Leathers Chemicals was in sight.
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Brighouse Rastrick summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th APRIL 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the boy whose hand was trapped down a Kirkland Street grid, memories of a Parr pit pony, the Raven advertises for darts and domino players, a new type of supermarket opens in Four Acre, a Clock Face campaign for more regular bin collections, the Rainhill rebellion against the building of a new housing estate on green belt land and why St Helens charities no longer wanted silver paper.
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St Helens Theatre Royal summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd APRIL 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Parr girl whose heart stopped during a fire, the do-it-yourself tattooing craze at St Alban's School in Haresfinch, a take-over of the Stoves gas cooker firm of Rainhill, concern that a tip at Holiday Moss in Rainford would become an eyesore, the opening of the town's new municipal golf course at Sherdley Park and more on the destruction of the vandal-proof toilets in Haresfinch.
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Central Modern, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th APRIL 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 15 stories include Mary Whitehouse's appearance in Sutton, the Billinge Hill blasting row is resolved, how youth unemployment was being cut in St Helens, Central Secondary girls are praised for organising a pensioners' party, the Theatre Royal audience who were ordered to stay in their seats and St Helens fire brigade save a puppy from death by drowning – and then from the threat of being put down.
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St Helens Corporation bus summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th APRIL 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the vandals' destruction of the vandal-proof Haresfinch superloo, the art robbery in Hartington Road, the rise in food prices that was threatening the traditional St Helens Sunday, the Rainford residents that were concerned about losing their view, the thirty-year wait for a Home Guard medal and Cowley Girls pupils who were thinking of a medical career are told to expect prejudice.
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Victoria Square, summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th MARCH - 2nd APRIL 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the council's vote to give the under fire Leathers Chemicals of Sutton another chance, the government training scheme on the Parr Industrial Estate, the slippery plan to foil the Victoria Square birds, why there was nothing new in the inter-connection of transport services, the vandals set to work on the new Burgy Banks woodland and the Parr jockey jinxed at the Grand National.
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