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.
West Park summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th MARCH - 4th APRIL 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a major new Pilkington pay deal for 10,000 shop-floor workers, the West Park schoolboys who took an overdose of sleeping pills as a dare, inquests are held into three tragedies in Ashton-in-Makerfield and Sutton, an advertising feature on new homes in Sutton Manor, the Sherdley Rovers and Sutton Juniors football teams and the men heavily fined for selling solid fuel under weight.
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Sooty summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th MARCH 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the hundreds of cured Rainhill Hospital patients who were looking for a new home, Sooty's Birthday Show performs at the Theatre Royal, a tragic scrapyard explosion in Newton-le-Willows, the new Rainford Comprehensive school, the prize-winning apprentice from Clock Face Road, a St Helens housewife describes her monotonous life and there’s a profile of the Beatles Fan Club.
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Daily Express Susan Plays Cupid summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st MARCH 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 17 stories include a bravery award for a Sutton man after he'd saved a child from drowning on Eccleston Mere, the Parr mongrel called Lady who tore a strip off bogus gasmen, the Daily Express praises a matchmaking schoolgirl from Portico, Lord and Lady Pilkington go on a sponsored walk, the houses on the new Chester Lane estate and why the tanner was making a premature departure from people's pockets.
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Oldham Tinkers summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the welcome end of the postal strike, the St Helens origin of the Oldham Tinkers "A Mon Like Thee", the continuing storm over the closure of Cowley Hill Maternity Hospital, the damages awarded for a Bold Colliery accident, the job opportunities available at Rainhill Hospital and Knowsley Safari Park and the good fortune of Eccleston’s Alcombe Steer – unlike his policeman father Percy.
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Coop summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the treacherous roads that led to a big pile-up at Haydock, hopes rise that the post office dispute could be drawing to a close, engineering workers in St Helens join the biggest political strike in Britain in 45 years, the schoolboy amateur boxing tournament at Lowe House church, the former dance halls and the no-deposit homes available to buy in St Helens for a fiver a week.
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Post office summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th FEBRUARY 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an update on the national postal strike that was now in its sixth week, a rebuff for the Pilkington rebels who wanted to return to work at Triplex, an emergency meeting of shareholders is held at Prescot FC, a Liverpool girl is assaulted and dumped at Blindfoot Road, the automatic car wash promotions and Rainhill Hospital's curious treatment for compulsive gamblers that was based on boredom.
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Bold Colliery summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st FEBRUARY 1971)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an update on the violent assault on Lennon's supermarket managers, Pilkingtons close one of its glass tanks in St Helens, a boost for Bold Colliery which was set to win two safety awards, the dotty decimalisation day takes place, the ten-year-old St Helens boy set to become a trigonometry film star and the regional revolution that took St Helens out of Lancashire and into Merseyside.
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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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