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.
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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Warrington New Road summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the high number of betting shops that were located in St Helens, a bus hits a baby's pram in Warrington New Road, the Talbot Street home that was infested with mice, the latest strike news in the St Helens district, the prices for playing on the new Sherdley Park golf course are announced, the Rainford pre-school play group and why Clock Face Road had looked like a Christmas card.
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Victoria Square summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th JAN. - 5th FEB. 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the row over the alleged lead poisoning of St Helens children, John Molyneux's Victoria Cross is auctioned at Sotheby's in London, an update on the extension of the Victoria Square war memorial, St Helens is revealed as one of the country's dirtiest towns, the Four Acre Lane plan to cure vandalism and the three puppeteer police officers that were teaching road safety at infant schools.
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Bold Colliery summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th JANUARY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the window smashing at St Cuthie's School, the dog in Laffak that grew and grew, a profile of the doomed St Helens Transport Department, the hollow victory for King Street residents who protested against the demolition of their homes, the end of the road for a quaint Pocket Nook bridge and the Bold Colliery mineworker who retired after 51 years service – but had never been underground.
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John Molyneux summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd JANUARY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the storm over the auction of a war hero's medals, the Blackbrook steeplejack's sibling kidney transplant, the noisy lorries revving up in the middle of the night on the Birchley Street car park, the binmen that were struck down by sickness, the demolition of the old Sutton National school, the council house facelift in Blackbrook and the Lorne Hotel in Fingerpost prepares to receive last orders.
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Prince of Wales summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th JANUARY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the hunt for the Fleet Lane sadist that was torturing dogs, the boys that set fire to church buildings, Whiston Council's rebel school milk scheme begins, the head of Central Secondary declares the new Water Street car park a danger to his pupils, the muddy state of Monastery Road in Sutton and the Blackbrook club with modern facilities – but with no gas, electricity or water supplies.
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Lennons summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th JANUARY 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the young Grange Park blaze hero, the New Year Euro-tot babies born in St Helens, the road safety lessons for longstanding Rainhill Hospital patients, a St Helens council U-turn over a free vasectomy service, the race against time to alleviate school shortages in Sutton and Sutton Manor and Lennons of St Helens ban Distillers' drink products from their supermarkets and their off-licences.
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Nevins summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th DEC. 1972 - 1st JAN. 1973)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the new Lewis's store in St Helens, the scandal of the St Helens workhouse school, complaints over undelivered Christmas mail, the people that took their lives in their hands crossing Dragon Lane, a call for community service to be introduced through park vandalism in St Helens, the Reporter's New Year baby contest and the old wives' tales hindering the take-up of a distemper vaccine.
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Robins Lane summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (19th - 25th DECEMBER 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the police raid on a British Legion club, the Parr jockey that had broken his hoodoo, Eccleston's new library opens on Broadway, the bumper Christmas cash sales in the shops, the expelled Ugandan Asians that praised their treatment in St Helens, the watchdog women in Rainford that monitored food prices for old age pensioners and the pre-Christmas entertainment that was on offer in St Helens.
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Sherdley Hall summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (12th - 18th DECEMBER 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's fourteen stories include the accident at a Thatto Heath school that led to a boy's death, the distemper epidemic that was sweeping St Helens, the new device that was saving many local miners' lives, the dangerous Sherdley Hall Farm fire, the switching on of the town's Christmas lights, Radio Merseyside excitedly embraces medium wave and the Reporter tells the truth about the tax-collecting VAT ogres.
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