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.
Theatre Royal, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 15 - 21 DECEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the thousands of Pilkington pensioners and widows that were due to receive a Christmas bumper bonus, the flying chunks of metal that were described as striking a Sutton bowling club like lethal bullets, the cold and bleak Christmas that was facing pensioners in Sutton, the Mayor's Toys Appeal and Eccleston is voted best village in the North West's Britain in Bloom competition.
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Jaws summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 8 - 14 DECEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the St Helens connection with Jaws, the enormous potential cost of closing down Leathers Chemicals, the Mayor's New Toy Appeal for deprived children at Christmas, the robbery at the North and South Eccleston Labour Club, the ruthless intruders preying on pensioners in Grange Park and the true account of the supposedly homeless couple that were living in a tent in Newton-le-Willows.
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Snoopy Club summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 1 - 7 DECEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Sutton schoolgirl's tights that were peppered with minute holes by fallout, the bus that dragged a woman passenger thirty yards after her handbag got trapped in an exit door, prime minister Harold Wilson opens a new health centre in Whiston, Pilkington's reduced profits through a global recession and the mystery of the barely used new Citizens Advice Bureau office located in Billinge.
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Leathers summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 24 - 30 NOVEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Rainhill schoolgirls' petition for better bus services, the date is set for the Leathers Chemicals public inquiry, the new Rent-A-Claus Santa scheme, a Sue Ryder home is set to open in Billinge, the Church Street shoe shop hit by a fire and theft within days of opening and the five-year-old child with a broken wrist who was turned away from St Helens Hospital's casualty department.
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Parkside Colliery summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 17 - 23 NOVEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Four Acre flagpole dispute, the genesis of the Scott Clinic for the criminally insane at Rainhill Hospital, the protest march against unemployment in St Helens town centre, the new housing estate off College Street that was dividing opinion, the plans for a new Westfield Street estate and the children that were creating a nuisance through riding up and down the lift at the St Helens Museum.
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Taylor Park, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 10 - 16 NOVEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the war of the sexes at Pilkingtons, the increase in games and leisure charges in St Helens parks, Silcocks winter pleasure fair in Thatto Heath, the nudist colony that wanted rate relief, the use of Rainhill Hospital's operating theatre to reduce waiting times, the environmental clean-up planned for Newton and Haydock and the race against time to get a youth club up and running in Rainhill.
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Rainhill Hospital summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 3 - 9 NOVEMBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include more criticism of the big increase in fares on St Helens buses, the woman who abused councillors at their monthly meeting, the three horses that strayed on to the Rainford Bypass, the pay dispute at the Northgate factory in Parr, the Rainhill Hospital Bonfire Night and how over one hundred school leavers in St Helens were set to benefit from the government's new Job Creation Scheme.
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Helena House, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 27 OCT - 2 NOV 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the angry words hurled at councillors attending a meeting in Derbyshire Hill, the big rise in bus fares that meant the cost of travelling by bus had tripled in a year, the Helena House Christmas Grotto featuring Wombles, how one Rainhill eyesore had been replaced by another in the form of an ugly fence and complaints are made about lengthy waiting times to see consultants and GPs.
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Tower College, Rainhill summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 OCTOBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the teenage firebugs causing havoc in Haresfinch Park, the hypocritical prosecution of Ena Shaw of Duke Street, the St Helens hospital doctors that were refusing to treat most non-urgent cases, the increasing crime in St Helens, the new type of fashion merchandising devised by Rainford Metals and a Rainhill headmaster attacks the permissive society and soft treatment of criminals.
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Lennons supermarket, St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 13 - 19 OCTOBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Wayne Fontana's row with Saints' Knowsley Cabaret Bar, the plans to create a women's refuge in St Helens, the retirement of the controversial Dean of St Helens, the many female crane drivers in Bold, Snoopy introduces his Reporter readers to recycling, the woman who won £50 worth of groceries from Lennon's and criticism of the bus services in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens and Rainford.
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Snoopy Club summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 OCTOBER 1975

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the staggering cost of vandalism in St Helens, the pony that got trapped inside an Eccleston swimming pool, disappointment for workers at the Ravenhead TV glassware plant and a factory in Sutton, the demolition of Rainhill's eyesore, the huge number of stolen cars in St Helens and the residents of a Newton retirement home that lived in terror when youngsters went on the rampage.
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