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.
Silhouette Slimming Club St Helens

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the vicious attempted robbery of Lennon's supermarket managers outside a Prescot bank, the punch card computer operators at Pilkingtons, the Silhouette Slimming Club's therapy sessions, the long-gone St Helens newsagents, the St Helens Schools Sports Committee Awards, good news for Pilkington strike rebels and Redgate Boys' Band and St. Edmund Campion Choir are on Radio 2.
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Plaza St Helens summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the exotic dancers at the Plaza's stag nights, the repercussions of Britain's first national postal strike, a revealing book is published on last year's Pilkington glass strike, a strike committee leader is expelled from the Labour party, success for a severely disabled Rainford man at Crufts, the Rank Xerox workshops in Haydock and a remarkable puppet show returns to the St Helens Theatre Royal.
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St Thomas Church summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the historic silverware that had been stolen from St Thomas' church in Westfield Street, the four-month-long Liverpool Road building site dispute is finally settled, the end of the road for RAF Haydock, the vicious animal attack in Keswick Road, the Shetland ponies and chimps in panto at the Theatre Royal and the Sutton Leach schoolboy beat group who performed in a garden shed.
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Windle Pilkington summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the arrest of the violent Haresfinch thugs, plans are announced for Knowsley Safari Park, trials of under-pitch heating for Saints' ground, St Helens-based supermarket tycoon Terence Lennon sells off his horses, more on women's rugby league, a Robins Lane School pupil's cookery success and the start of the post office workers strike with plans for a housewives' army of strike-breakers.
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St Helens police summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a gang's reign of terror in Haresfinch and Parr, a new main police station is planned for College Street, the train vandals that caused disruption at Rainford, haulier Joe Pickavance has a lorry stolen, a Pilkington strike rebel says that he wants to "bury the hatchet", the village councillor that told the national press he was working to rule and the beginning of a long postal strike.
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Castle Hill summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include more job losses at Pilkington Glass in St Helens, the inquest into the Hardshaw Street demolition deaths, scary hauntings in Newton-le-Willows and Haydock, a potted history of shirt making in St Helens, the dogs racing at the Park Road greyhound track, the new houses available to buy for £4,000 and the kind driving instructor who turned detective to trace the owners of a lost dog.
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Theatre Royal Summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th DEC. 1970 - 3rd JAN. 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the son of an Italian prince who chose to spend his Christmas in Sutton but didn't like the cold weather, a Windle garden centre is ordered to close, the preparations being made in the town for "D" for Decimalisation Day, the panto 'Mother Goose' is performed at the Theatre Royal and the Health Education Council's extraordinary advertising campaign to promote the use of contraception.
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Daily Mirror coping stone accident St Helens

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th DECEMBER 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the dreadful coping stone "death avalanche" accident in Hardshaw Street, the Christmas B-Test police blitz in St Helens, rioting gipsy children smash up a brass band's club house in Park Road, a Christmas what's on guide, the Reporter's New Year's Day baby contest, the new British Legion in Ashcroft Street and a profile of those who would not be having such a merry Christmas this year.
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Helena House summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th DECEMBER 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 17 stories include the end of the power cut misery in St Helens, Helena House's Christmas Specials, a call for better health clinic facilities in Rainford, the demise of the Peasley Cross Derby and Joan Club, the Billinge councillor who said he couldn't give a tinker's cuss about a bus company and Father Christmas goes on his travels as part of St Helens & District Round Table's Christmas 1970 Appeal.
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Bold Power Station summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th DECEMBER 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the power cuts and misery endured by St Helens folk and reports of engineers at sub-stations being abused, two hundred Saints fans fly to France, St Helens soldiers speak of dealing with rioting mobs in Northern Ireland, a Polaroid feature is in the Reporter, the 30 pianos offered to Carr Mill Derby and Joan Club and there's criticism of the Catholic church's response to alcoholism.
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Stylophone summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th NOV. - 6th DEC. 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include calls for tougher sentences for those who attack bar staff, the new gipsy site off Dobsons Lane nears completion, a Christmas gifts feature is in the Reporter, complaints about private sessions at Boundary Road baths, a planned rent rise for council house tenants, a new pay deal for Pilkington workers and the Billinge girl who posted a letter to the States bearing a Toytown stamp.
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