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.
Chemics summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th JULY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 15 stories include the plans to clean up the eyesore Kimmicks waste heaps, Saints captain Kel Coslett is "kidnapped" at Rainhill Hospital, more complaints are made about the Four Acre Lane estate, the new treatment unit for alcoholics at Rainhill, Rainford bans night-time chimes from ice-cream vans and there's good news for those on the telephone waiting list as the new Marshalls Cross exchange opens.
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Lennons summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th JULY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the petrol bomb craze on a Clinkham Wood building site, complaints over the taste of St Helens drinking water after chlorine is added, two firemen are hurt fighting a town centre blaze at a derelict pub, the Stoves' strike at Rainhill, a dispute over a bus shelter outside St Helens Hospital and profiles in the St Helens Reporter of supermarket boss Terence Lennon and bookie Matty Coan.
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Dentons Green Lane summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th JULY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's fourteen stories include an explosion at Bold Colliery that injured sixteen workers, the introduction of a new one-way traffic system in St Helens, an accident takes place while constructing the new Church Street multi-storey car park, plans to build a driving test centre at Gerards Bridge are controversially scrapped and there's a profile in the St Helens Reporter of the supermarket boss "Jolly" Jack Nevin.
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St Helens bus summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th JUNE - 3rd JULY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Chain Lane estate dispute over dangerous flues, the St Helens woman who claimed to have escaped from a Persian vice club, an update on the Corporation buses in Canada, concern over more danger in Hardshaw Street, the biggest shake-up in the 192-year history of St Helens market and Alan Whalley describes bare fist fighting and wall tennis in rough and tumble Gerards Bridge.
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Hugh Lloyd summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th JUNE 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the shocking violence at the Boundary Road Baptist Church, comedian Hugh Lloyd goes to Robins Lane Secondary School, Saints new state-of-the-art social club, the deadly boiler scare on a Blackbrook estate, the good deed that two St Albans schoolboys did, concern that Boundary Road baths were proving too popular and the parents in Marshalls Cross and Billinge worried about road safety.
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Fleece Hotel summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th JUNE 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the increasing industrial strife in St Helens, the grumpy gander at Windle Farm that didn't like postmen, the newly designated play street in St Helens town centre, the furious Rainhill DIY store boss who'd been breaking Sunday trading laws, criticism of the sparse attendance at a new play at the Theatre Royal and a family's dramatic escape from their fire-ravaged home in Thatto Heath.
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Taylor Park summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th JUNE 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the prospect of industrial action at Pilkingtons, the petticoat protest at Ashall's Garage in City Road, the naming of the new boat on Taylor Park lake, the old-time bar room rat battles, a profile of a rising show business star called Bernie Clifton, the latest on the Sutton's Transport strike and a solution is found to resolve the cold ambulance headquarters dispute in Jackson Street.
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Suttons summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th MAY - 5th JUNE 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include Prince Philip's visit to Grange Park School to inspect teenagers' work on his award scheme, the drivers at Sutton's haulage firm go on strike, there's good news for the Rainhill mad mile road safety campaigners, the masters and mistresses needed in St Helens schools, St Helens Marriage Guidance runs short of counsellors and its the end of the line at the Railway Inn in Moss Bank in St Helens.
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Windle petrol station summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th MAY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a child's death at Barton's Carpets after a roll of carpet fell down, the star-spangled Windle filling station, the poisoning of family pets in Billinge, a claim of a shopping war in the high street, the Clock Face home gazumping, the woman living in terror in Parr Street, the Westfield Street salon owner troubled by vandals and thieves and the parent-led Children's Club founded in Gartons Lane.
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Helena House Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd MAY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 17 stories include another arson attack on the Four Acre estate, a Labour alderman is sacked as party leader for being too old, a claim that 999 calls were receiving the engaged tone, Lady Pilkington refutes criticism of getting over-excited in the Royal Box at Wembley, the St Helens MP claims VAT on tickets would kill off rugby league and why a zebra crossing in Haydock was considered a safety hazard.
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Hijacked Plane Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th MAY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the unexploded bomb that was found in St Helens Canal, the busman's holiday operation to take stranded Saints fans to Wembley, the ending of the Linpac Plastics sit-in, the three schoolboy crime fighters, the St Helens-born woman involved in a terrorist hijack, victory for the residents of Green End Road and concern that coin-operated gas meters in St Helens were attracting robbers.
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