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.
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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Poachers summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th NOVEMBER 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include complaints about rats in Rainford, the calamity kid from Parr suffers yet another accident, the high-flying Carr Mill schoolkids return from their class in the sky, Saints play Leigh in the Lancashire Cup Final, Blaster Bates is back in town demolishing a chimney at a Ravenhead brickworks, Carr Mill Motors free car wash and there is a feature on Barclaycard in the St Helens Reporter.
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Crank School St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd NOVEMBER 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a Carr Mill geography lesson from the air, the Clock Face boy who thought school dinners were rotten, a night-time raid on Ben Brooks' sports shop, why a huge hole that appeared on a Parr housing estate was being blamed on the 1926 miners strike and the Thatto Heath couple celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary who said their recipe for wedded bliss was to have a good row.
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Victoria Park St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th NOVEMBER 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a call for St Helens park rangers to be armed with dogs to deal with troublesome skinheads, the Liverpool Road builders' lock out, the ten-year-old boy accused of setting fire to Krazy Kuts in Eccleston Road, the Bickerstaffe Street bus stop victory, a warning over Billinge Hill and the Sutton youths that smashed a stained glass window at St Nicholas Church are brought to book.
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St Marks and Oxleys St Helens summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th NOVEMBER 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Sutton gipsies that threatened an invasion of St Helens town centre, Father Christmas arrives in style at Oxleys department store in Claughton Street, concern over undesirable elements arriving in Billinge, there's a big boost for the Theatre Royal, the days when Wild Woodbine cigarettes cost just four a penny and criticism of the pace of the slum clearance scheme in St Helens.
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