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.
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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Leathers summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the courageous rescue of a child from a blazing Parr home, an update on the Jefferson Smurfitt packaging dispute, a fresh wave of fury erupts in Sutton after a blowout of acid from Leathers Chemicals, Pilks' rebel leader Gerry Caughey’s latest job application to Triplex is rejected, the retirement of a long-time Rainford chemist and an Ashton Green relic of a coal mine in Parr is blown to bits.
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Westfield Street summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the controversial ban on car parking in Hardshaw Street, traders in the new St Mary's Market complain of a big drop in takings, Mary Whitehouse is set to give a talk in Sutton Parish Hall, Pilks go green with a big tree-planting scheme, the cheeky cartwheel theft from a Westfield Street shop and the betting shop frauds in which a man placed bets on horses that he knew had already won their race.
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