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.
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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Taylor Park summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's fifteen stories include the latest news of the Pilkington glass strike, Rainford begins a search for a Carnival Queen, two peacocks are killed in Taylor Park, Parr residents complain their lawns are turning into mud baths, the Nutgrove "super DIY" man who annoyed his neighbours, Eccleston residents demand a health clinic and why the redevelopment of St Helens town centre was bad news for some tenants.
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Parr Stocks fire station summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the industrial disaster of the Pilkington strike, Lady Pilkington is jostled by an angry mob at a meeting of strikers, the campaign to overturn a byelaw banning the playing of Sunday sport in St Helens, a decimalisation exhibition at the Travellers Rest in Crab Street, a special feature on weddings is in the Reporter and Alan Whalley's views on the pipedreams of St Helens' planners.
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Fibreglass summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th MARCH - 5th APRIL 1970)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the tearing down of "Skid Row" inside a St Helens' brickworks, plans for a huge zoo in the grounds of Knowsley Park, the first St Helens' horse rides in the Grand National, the first Whalley's World column is published in the Reporter, the highlights of the St Helens Show are announced and a councillor criticises savage rent rises planned for council houses in Jubits Lane and Four Acre.
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Snoopy Club summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the miracle of the missing Chihuahua dog who had been missing from her Windle home during the severe Arctic weather, the new Snoopy Club in the St Helens Reporter, concern for the future of Notre Dame girls' school, the Rainhill telephone saga and the 86-year-old Sutton Manor woman who lived in a "dilapidated, mouse-infested cottage" and was a "prisoner of cold, damp and despair".
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St Helens Police summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include anger over the ban on Sunday sport on council-owned pitches, a huge tobacco and spirits heist in Boundary Road, an update on the creation of the new Duckeries park in Parr, the opening of a new social centre for St Anne's Church in Sutton, a decision over the mobile fish van invaders is taken, the Haydock Donkey Derby programme and what Lord Pilkington had to say about the environment.
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Savoy Cinema summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the Black Horse in Moss Bank's ban on longhaired drinkers, a claim of ghetto-like conditions in Parr, the Reporter profiles the ice-cream salesgirls at the Savoy cinema, work begins on a new housing estate in Sutton Manor, the Jacobs clothing factory on the Parr Industrial Estate and the 11-year-old girls that giggled in court after threatening an 87-year-old woman with a milk bottle.
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Bold Colliery summary

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the 6-year-old Thatto Heath housing estate that was becoming a slum, the "devilish" noise at British Sidac, the official opening of the new Rivington Comprehensive School, the Fleet Lane factory strike, the restoration of St Nicholas Church in Sutton, concern over illiteracy in St Helens and a councillor's claim that the town was still living in the days of the horse and carriage.
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