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.
Plaza summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the troublemakers at the Plaza's strip shows, the obliging Clock Face couple whose garden and garage were destroyed by the council, Marti Caine performs at East Sutton Labour Club, the knock down sale in St Mary Street, the residents on the new Carnegie Crescent estate in Sutton upset about their privacy and why slap-happy St. Helens was daubing its name into the idiot's record books.
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Parr Stocks fire station summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the tramps that were sleeping in Central Library, plans to fight the shock job losses at Pilkingtons, St Helens Fire Brigade decide to axe their axes, anger over the planned closure of Cowley Hill Maternity Hospital, a series of building cock-ups in St Helens, concern over a planned gipsy caravan site in Collins Green and fury over fumes escaping from Sutton's sulphuric acid plant.
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Will Sharrock Clock Face fastest gun

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (31st AUG. - 6th SEPT. 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the choking gas terror from Leathers Chemicals in Sutton, the Clock Face champion gunslinger, parents demand an investigation into the poor performance of a Rainford school, a youth club siege by teenagers seeking revenge on skinheads, the lovely Pilkington dollies and the barrister who said a Carr Mill woman's court evidence should be treated lightly because she was a woman.
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Leathers summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (24th - 30th AUGUST 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Sidac "acid drop dollies" that had to dodge sulphuric acid bubbles, the armed vigilante gardeners of Alder Hey Road catch a dahlia destroyer, a violent robbery at a farmhouse in Newton Road, a claim of filth and pollution caused by ash drifting from Bold Power Station, Rainford Carnival ’70 takes place, a car is stolen at gun point in Eccleston and "Radio Saints" returns to the air.
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West Park Grammar summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (17th - 23rd AUGUST 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include an update on the sacked Pilkington strikers – including a claim of blacklisting, the Reporter accuses the headmaster of West Park Grammar of a petty boycott, the melting helmets of St Helens firemen, a safety plan is proposed to reduce accidents at Windle Island, a pioneering pre-school playgroup in Sutton Manor and vandals smash a recently restored stained glass window in Sutton.
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St Marks Savoy summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (10th - 16th AUGUST 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the skinhead attacks on the College Street home of six Pakistani men, more strike trouble at Pilkingtons, the Rainford storm over eleven-plus failures at Bushey Lane School, the St Helens vicar who accused bookshops and cinemas of sinking to the gutter in peddling sex and the woman refused a pint of cider in the Windle Hotel after being told that supping pints was "unladylike".
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Oh Calcutta summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (3rd - 9th AUGUST 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the start of another strike at Pilkingtons, a police hunt for a little girl missing from Ruskin Drive, the St Helens woman that turned down a top role in Oh! Calcutta!, the man whose Ford Anglia was crushed by a fire engine, jovial Gerry Barnes at the Star Inn, the St Helens beauty queen who complained about the long telephone waiting list and an advertising feature on hobbies is in the Reporter.
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Citadel summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th JULY - 2nd AUGUST 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include outrage over plans for a gipsy camp in Burtonwood, a 3-year-old child receives forty-seven dog bites while playing in Sherdley Road, a call for St Helens' employers to hire more married women, the sad story of a College Street fish-frying range, a profile of the Salvation Army's Citadel in Milk Street and an advertising feature on the town's historic businesses is in the Reporter.
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Its a knock out summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th JULY 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the St Helens firemen who worked part-time as pallbearers to make ends meet, a community rallies to help a Dentons Green pensioner, the second St Helens Show takes place, a wedding feature is in the Reporter, the Parr engineering workers who complained of harassment by gipsies and the Surrey Street man who claimed he'd waited fifteen years for the council to give him a new garden gate.
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Beatles summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th JULY 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 15 stories include the skinhead trouble at the Geraldo Club, the plan for St Helens to get a multi-storey "car park in the sky", vandalism in Jubits Lane delays the building of new homes, an end to the two-week-old ambulance strike, Sutton Manor residents complain about piped TV, a helicopter is used in Blackbrook to find a load of missing bricks and what St Helens folk thought of the new £20 note.
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Salvation Army lodging house summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (6th - 12th JULY 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 15 stories include the post-strike neurosis of the glass dispute, the juvenile delinquents leaving the borough for the first time, striking St Helens ambulance crews are threatened with the sack, Pilkingtons are warned of a threat by "subversive elements" to sabotage their pipelines, a special feature on Duke Street is in the St Helens Reporter and bus fares in the town are set to rise because of decimalisation.
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