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 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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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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