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 Ambulance Station summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (29th JUNE - 5th JULY 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's nineteen stories include the "I'm alright, Jack" attitude of the bike-owning factory workers in St Helens, the town's ambulance crews go on strike, St Helens pubs call the new fruit machine laws "diabolical", three teenage "dolly-birds" are selected for the Rainford Carnival Queen contest and the men who conned Maclean and Appleton's garage into giving them Terence Lennon's Rolls Royce appear in court.
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Royal Westfield Street summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (22nd - 28th JUNE 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 21 stories include the Kiln Lane residents who were accused of being selfish, the Daktari animal boy of Billinge who was "something of a jinx", the landlord of the Royal Hotel watches a Westfield Street robbery at 2am, Rockware Glass design a "lighta pinta" milk bottle, the annual Haydock Donkey Derby and Gala Day takes place and the "massacre" of fish at Carr Mill Dam is blamed mainly on the weather.
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Pilkington head office summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st JUNE 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a bus smash in Corporation Street, the strange behaviour of a Haydock newsagent, St Helens teenagers cast their vote in a General Election for the first time, a new library is planned for Eccleston, the Nutgrove children "playing on a bomb", a claim that unmarried mothers in St Helens were losing their shame and Billy the killer swan's reign of terror in Prescot Road finally comes to an end.
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Harold Wilson Leslie Spriggs summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (8th - 14th JUNE 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the General Election candidates, the rat plague in Haydock, a brave rescue of a drowning man in Carr Mill Dam, the clearing of the old parish church graveyard, bad news for Sunday sport campaigners, Auntie Annie leaves her Gerards Bridge shop after forty-two years and the council house tenants who refuse to carry out the smallest repair work without complaining to the Town Hall.
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Carr Mill Dam summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1st - 7th JUNE 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a spectacular speedboat crash on Carr Mill Dam, the Pilkington strikers who were described in court as being "full of bitterness and hatred", a heatwave threatens the St Helens beer and water supplies, the victory brew at the Lord Nelson that was kept under lock and key and why many Billingers were up in arms about their new neighbours – which were animals, clowns and rodeo riders.
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Bold Colliery summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st MAY 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the repercussions in the wake of the Pilkington glass strike with claims of victimisation at Triplex, a profile of the "egg and sausage artist" from Duke Street, self-service petrol comes to St Helens, the Whit Monday parades, the high wages being paid to Sidac staff, the phantom fly-tippers of Parr alterations to Lowe House church and the Carr Mill boy who was a keen tegestologist.
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Vic Feather Pilkington summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th MAY 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the violence in the Pilkington glass strike, a government court of inquiry takes place into the dispute and as the seven-week strike finally ends, the Daily Mirror reports "peace in town of fear". In other news the Reporter asks "Whatever Happened to the Carr Mill Dream?", the paper profiles haulier Joe Pickavance and there is a talk at St Helens Tech on the new Open University.
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Pilkington strikers London summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th MAY 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories are again dominated by the Pilkington glass strike and include a claim of organised thuggery, a delegation of families enduring hardship travel to London to meet a government minister, the glass giant warns of massive redundancies and the dog collar secret ballot at Central Modern school. Other news stories include the fly-away parrot from Birchley Street and the Carr Mill boy stuck up a tree.
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Pilkington troublemakers summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th MAY 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include violence outside Pilkingtons Sheet Works, the Mayor's heartfelt plea for a resolution of the glass strike, a surprise intervention into the dispute by Barbara Castle, a surprise revelation concerning the bye-law banning Sunday sport, criticism of the new traffic scheme in Church Street and a Sutton vicar considers setting up a body of vigilantes to stop vandalism at his churches.
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Pilkington strike cutting summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (27th APRIL - 3rd MAY 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include strike breaking by workers in the Pilkington glass dispute, the siege of the GMWU union offices in Kirkland Street, a special reunion of priests takes place at St. Anne's Monastery, there are claims of blood baths at the Greenbank British Legion, Sooty's '70 Spectacular entertains the kids at the Theatre Royal and why Pat Phoenix was worried she might get a black eye in St Helens.
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Gerards Bridge summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the cheeky theft of Terence Lennon's Rolls Royce from Maclean and Appleton's garage, Pilkington glass strikers reject an offer of a £3 per week pay increase, the North Road couple that said their windows were cleaner since the start of the strike, the midnight phantom rose snatchers of Windle, the intruder in the vicar of St Peter's bedroom and the doomed eyesore of Gerards Bridge.
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