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.
Providence Hospital summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th AUGUST 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the skinhead rugby league fans that were on the rampage in St Helens, the kids' street party in Dorothy Street held in lieu of a summer holiday, the shocking wave of vandalism and violence, Rainford Carnival takes place, the builders with a heart at Billinge Hospital, the explosion at Cronton Colliery and the patients and visitors at Providence Hospital that puffed away on cigarettes.
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Bold Colliery summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st AUGUST 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include criticism of the shape of St Helens' girls legs, a 'Back to School' feature is in the St Helens Reporter, the vicar of St Mark's campaigns against the erosion of public decency on television, the Chain Lane flues dispute rolls on, Cowley boys return triumphant from their South American rugby tour and Leathers Chemicals are accused of destroying women's tights through an acid fall-out.
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Leathers summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th AUGUST 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the new Westfield Street / Ormskirk Street one-way traffic system in St Helens, the Islands Brow road improvement scheme, the Pilkington Gala takes place at Ruskin Drive, the Dentons Green residents unhappy with trees blocking their light, there are more concerns in Sutton over Leathers chemicals plant and the Saints player refusing to play for the club because of the abuse he received.
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Dentons Green Lane summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th AUGUST 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an inquiry into plans to demolish 200 houses in the King Street area of St Helens, an update on the Chain Lane flues dispute, the new one-way traffic system in the town, a councillor's furious attack on the state of a Thatto Heath health clinic, a campaign to save Moss Bank's heritage and the dog owners about to start their summer holidays who were dumping their pets in country lanes.
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Robins Lane watch presentation summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st JULY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the vandalism in the town's parks, the jobs crisis for young people in St Helens, 14,000 Pilkingtons workers take part in a one-day strike in protest at the Industrial Relations Act, the St Helens MP tells the House of Commons about the stinky brook, a Rainford Carnival poster competition is held and the decision is taken after months of conjecture to rename the St Helens district, St Helens.
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Chemics summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th JULY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 15 stories include the plans to clean up the eyesore Kimmicks waste heaps, Saints captain Kel Coslett is "kidnapped" at Rainhill Hospital, more complaints are made about the Four Acre Lane estate, the new treatment unit for alcoholics at Rainhill, Rainford bans night-time chimes from ice-cream vans and there's good news for those on the telephone waiting list as the new Marshalls Cross exchange opens.
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Lennons summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th JULY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the petrol bomb craze on a Clinkham Wood building site, complaints over the taste of St Helens drinking water after chlorine is added, two firemen are hurt fighting a town centre blaze at a derelict pub, the Stoves' strike at Rainhill, a dispute over a bus shelter outside St Helens Hospital and profiles in the St Helens Reporter of supermarket boss Terence Lennon and bookie Matty Coan.
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Dentons Green Lane summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th JULY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's fourteen stories include an explosion at Bold Colliery that injured sixteen workers, the introduction of a new one-way traffic system in St Helens, an accident takes place while constructing the new Church Street multi-storey car park, plans to build a driving test centre at Gerards Bridge are controversially scrapped and there's a profile in the St Helens Reporter of the supermarket boss "Jolly" Jack Nevin.
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St Helens bus summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th JUNE - 3rd JULY 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Chain Lane estate dispute over dangerous flues, the St Helens woman who claimed to have escaped from a Persian vice club, an update on the Corporation buses in Canada, concern over more danger in Hardshaw Street, the biggest shake-up in the 192-year history of St Helens market and Alan Whalley describes bare fist fighting and wall tennis in rough and tumble Gerards Bridge.
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Hugh Lloyd summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (20th - 26th JUNE 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the shocking violence at the Boundary Road Baptist Church, comedian Hugh Lloyd goes to Robins Lane Secondary School, Saints new state-of-the-art social club, the deadly boiler scare on a Blackbrook estate, the good deed that two St Albans schoolboys did, concern that Boundary Road baths were proving too popular and the parents in Marshalls Cross and Billinge worried about road safety.
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Fleece Hotel summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (13th - 19th JUNE 1972)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the increasing industrial strife in St Helens, the grumpy gander at Windle Farm that didn't like postmen, the newly designated play street in St Helens town centre, the furious Rainhill DIY store boss who'd been breaking Sunday trading laws, criticism of the sparse attendance at a new play at the Theatre Royal and a family's dramatic escape from their fire-ravaged home in Thatto Heath.
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