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.
Lancots Lane Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th NOVEMBER 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 17 stories include the Pilkington loo strike at Cowley Hill, plans for a giant one-way road system in St Helens, the young lion tamer from Rainhill, a coroner calls for dipped headlights on cars after a tragedy in Pocket Nook, the bus driver who lodged his vehicle under a Sutton bridge after being over the limit and the 11-year-old girl footballer from Clock Face who caused a row after she'd played for a boys' team.
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Redgate Boys Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th NOVEMBER 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's seventeen stories include the children who played a dangerous game of chicken on Croppers Hill, the pioneering flexi-time firm from Lancots Lane in Sutton, Helena House open their annual Xmas Grotto, the Bonfire night plot in Liverpool Road, the strict Redgate Boys Band rulebook, the half-way stage is reached in building Eccleston's new fire station and St Helens police's inquiry into horse doping.
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Warrington Road Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st OCTOBER 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Billinge boy's 20ft. drop down a manhole, how local MPs cast their vote as the Commons elects to join the Common Market, the Prescot man honoured for singing on a ship at Gallipoli, why Pilks could not make strong enough glass to stop vandals in Liverpool, another accident on Warrington Road in Rainhill and the proposed black belt for a blind judo enthusiast in Newton-le-Willows.
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Providence Hospital Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th OCTOBER 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 15 stories include the funeral of rugby star Jack Pimblett, the Boardman's furniture fire in Bridge Street, the Rainhill school inspired by Knowsley Safari Park, the monkey guard dog at the reserve, the growth of female football teams, the Duke Street newsagent charged with possessing obscene literature, a boost for Providence Hospital and whether women bosses were the most detestable of the species.
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Plaza Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th OCTOBER 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the terrified widow driven from her home by Plaza strip night rowdies, an update on abandoned dog Faithful Fred, the mysterious draining of the deadly canal at Haydock, a warning by St Helens Police about housebreaking, the Pilkington Recs scrum collapse tragedy, the Thatto Heath modern man and the musical 'Showboat' is performed at the Theatre Royal and receives a rave review.
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Dubliners Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th OCTOBER 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Dubliners dispute with the Theatre Royal, St Helens Council's derelict land reclamation programme, the woman who gave cooking sherry to a 4-year-old in Victoria Park, the Pilkington strike leader prosecuted as a benefit cheat, St Helens-born Stanley Parr is made Chief Constable of Lancashire, the natural gas conversion programme and the planned demolition of the St Helens covered market.
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Crone and Taylor Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th SEPT. - 3rd OCT. 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a setback in the sanctuary plans for Eccleston's "Dr Dolittle", a child drowns in a Haydock canal while walking a dog, the soccer-mad Sutton Manor schoolboys, the Manchester United full back from Parr who was hurt in a skinhead attack, the deserved Pocket Nook pools win, a rejection for supermarket plans at Rainhill and the nocturnal pile-drivers preventing people from sleeping.
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St Helens Post Office Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th SEPTEMBER 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's sixteen stories include the shocking castration of a sheep dog in North Road, St Helens schools ban the noisy and dangerous new clackers craze, the opening of the new post office in Bridge Street, the Carr Mill football hooligan in London, the stars on stage at the Theatre Royal, the serious school fire in Prescot and the planned re-development of the Westfield Street area in St Helens receives the green light.
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Parr Stocks Fair St Helens Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th SEPTEMBER 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 15 stories include the stars of a Theatre Royal production who drowned their sorrows by getting drunk, the many St Helens Christmas Clubs available, praise for the caring Rainhill Hospital staff, the goat that attended Knowsley Road Junior School, the fireman who quit his job to protect his mother from thieves and vandals and the crowds of Liverpool supporters that blocked the M6 entrance at Haydock.
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Capitol Cinema St Helens Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th SEPTEMBER 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the serious Eccleston school blaze, the priest who walked out of a sex education film at the Capitol after just ten minutes, an investigation into the Dobsons Lane gipsy camp, the vicar of St Mark's criticises brides arriving late at his church, Pilkingtons win two big South American orders and the band at Knowsley Road that had to quickly learn the new national anthem of New Zealand.
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Lennons St Helens Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th AUG. - 5th SEPT. 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Rainford exotic bird show and charity walk, why youths misbehaving in Sefton Place were giving police a dog's life, the Pilkington Sub Aqua Club diver who almost died, the expanding Lennon's supermarkets and off-licences, the failing St Helens automatic car washes, tobacconist Peter Dewar moves into men's fashions and the sad dilemma of the Haydock hole-in-the-heart dad.
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