FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th - 31st March 1969)
This week's stories include the long-gone Westfield Street shops, the state of the footpaths in Walkers Lane and Chester Lane, the electric Rainhill clothes line, Candy the poodle is back in Billinge, there's bad news for Saints fans, more telephone boxes for West Sutton, old Cowleians are in the Echo, the St Helens Showband and Unnamed Players are at the Theatre Royal and it's the end of the road for St Helens Police.