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.
Rockware Glass summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (23rd - 29th DECEMBER 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the toy doctor from Nutgrove who repaired thrown away and broken toys, Saints sensational Boxing Day victory over Wigan, Jack Nevin's "drop-a-line-to Santa" campaign, a new shopping precinct for Fingerpost, the dark and dangerous mornings in Walkers Lane in Sutton Manor, the "one trip" beer bottles made by Rockware Glass and there is a special feature on New Year babies in the Reporter.
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St Helens bus summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (16th - 22nd DECEMBER 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the Sutton Manor pitmen with "bombs" in their grates, the seas of mud in Haydock, a new policy for smoking on one-man buses, the move to a pedestrianised town centre, the many nativity plays and Christmas parties in St Helens, the heating of the planned Beth Avenue estate in Sutton and the opening of a new clubhouse in Ruskin Drive for Pilkingtons' women pensioners.
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Sutton Manor Colliery summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (9th - 15th DECEMBER 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 18 stories include what "space age" St Helens' children thought of Father Christmas, rumours that Harold Wilson wanted to be the MP for St Helens, plans for an open-air Gospel music festival in the town starring Cliff Richard, another Christmas shopping feature is in the Reporter, St Helens prepares for its biggest Christmas cash spree ever and why the bins were not being emptied very often in Rainford.
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St Helens market summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (2nd - 8th DECEMBER 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include good news for the angry families of Baxters Lane, a gipsy lorry ploughs into a house in Reginald Road, the bizarre buzzing sound that was driving two families in Parr up the wall, a profile of the characters that worked in St Helens Market, more Christmas gifts adverts are in the Reporter and praise for the man who dragged his landlord to safety from a gas-filled bedroom in Lowe Street.
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Clayhole diving summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th NOV. - 1st DEC. 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include a boycott by motorists of the car parks in St Helens, more complaints about the gipsies of Reginald Road, the latest on the teachers' strike, the erroneous Pudden Bag Hotel, a Christmas advertising feature is in the Reporter, a Berry's Lane man sends the police on a wild goose chase and the man who claimed to have been "bombed" by a dynamite charge on Billinge Beacon.
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Central Modern summary

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (18th - 24th NOVEMBER 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include fears that St Helens could be flooded with forged 50p coins over the Christmas shopping period, the 18th century condition of houses in Haydock, the thumbs up is given for four road improvement schemes in St Helens, a hairdressing feature is in the Reporter, the Westfield Street lump labour dispute is settled and the little boy from Birchley Street who got a cake tin stuck on his head!
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Parr Stocks Road

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (11th - 17th NOVEMBER 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the roving gangs in Haydock that were on the look out for mischief, the foul stench of the stinky brook, police are called to a Sutton Manor playing field over a row over Sunday football, there's criticism of fashion stores in St Helens, the death of the founder of Barton's pickles, Pilkington's begin selling glass blocks and the town's newsagents advertise in a Reporter feature.
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Bus

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th NOVEMBER 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Bonfire Night in St Helens, Father Christmas arrives in style at Helena House, the council's house building plans for the next three years are revealed, why the town's bus service was operating on a knife-edge, the National Coal Board's recruitment campaign, the St Helens Autumn Show, seven golden weddings are celebrated and what St Helens' mothers thought of sex education in schools.
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Fireworks

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th OCT. - 3rd NOV. 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a damning report in The Economist on "greyland" St Helens, calls for organised fireworks shows on Bonfire Night, a fire at Rainhill Cricket Club, concern that the small trader would be driven out of the new town centre, the one hundred dog lovers who want to give a wandering Golden Labrador at Carr Mill a new home and the free parking on the Corporation-owned car parks comes to an end.
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Theatre Royal

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (21st - 27th October 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Billy the mysterious goat of Leach Lane, the bogus gasman of Randon Street who handed back cash rebates, the new seven-sided 50p coin goes down badly in St Helens, there's criticism of shops selling Hallowe'en masks, town centre parking meter plans are shelved, there's a complaint over police numbers in Newton-le-Willows and Rediffusion's colour television-by-wire service is explained.
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Plaza

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (14th - 20th October 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the "gloomy, gaslit street with a Jack the Ripper atmosphere" in Sutton Manor, the end of a five-day bin strike in St Helens, plans are announced for the creation of the Beth Avenue estate in Sutton, the decline of the bobby on the beat, the gym at Robins Lane school and the closure of the historic Windle Smithy Stores, followed by the opening of Dennis Cowley's replacement Food Market.
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