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.
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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Capitol Cinema, summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th MARCH 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the orgy of window smashing by vandals in Peter Street, the Rainford milkman's daffodil thank you to his customers, JJB Sports opens its first new store in Sutton, a fire in the kitchen of a Prescot Road flat, there's a tragic accident in Ashcroft Street, Stuart Hall judges a Rainford beauty contest and the curious reason why a man was said to have been banned for life from the Windle Hotel.
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Beth Avenue summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th MARCH 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the council proposal to shut down Leathers Chemicals in Sutton, the Clock Face dog that the RSPCA had to feed through a letterbox, the high rate of sickness amongst St Helens binmen, it's a man's world in the Reporter, the end of the line for the historic Clock Face railway bridge and Saints' players complain about not being allowed to attend the opening of their new social club.
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Rainhill Hospital summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th MARCH 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 15 stories include the friendless elderly patients in Rainhill Hospital, criticism of the wandering dogs of St Helens, there's another leak of sulphuric acid vapour from Leathers, a big step forward takes place in the pedestrianisation of St Helens town centre, a report on the 4-years-old Fletcher triplets of Billinge and a St Helens fire chief slams the inconsiderate parking that was slowing the response of his crews.
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St Helens Covered Market

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th FEB. - 5th MARCH 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's fourteen stories include the prison sentence for the man that poured boiling hot water on dogs in Parr, the Portico baby that had been born ten weeks premature goes home, the lasso rescue of a dog trapped in a Jackson Street culvert, there's a strike at Whiston Hospital, the customer confusion over stallholders in the St Helens Covered Market and the end is in sight for the annual Islands Brow flooding.
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