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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.
Joseph Woods

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the river of mud in Walkers Lane, Dirty Gert appears at the Geraldo Club, new baths are announced for Scotchbarn Lane in Prescot, the labour shortage in St Helens, there’s criticism of the facilities at Hamblett Open Air School, a new headmaster for Robins Lane Secondary School, a car wash for Carr Mill and the Prescot Road man who attacked his wife is only fined a fiver.
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Adverts in the Liverpool Echo

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include a wave of telephone robberies in Rainford, the end of the BICC strike in Prescot, the Nutgrove Brownies pedlars parade, Haydock Lodge hospital is given away, the Thatto Heath church that held services in a disused pit, the Parr man's "publicity gag" for the Black and White Minstrels and Sooty returns to the Theatre Royal.
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St Theresa School St Helens

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
In this week's many stories a runaway spud van crashes into a Thatto Heath home, Carr Mill juniors get in on the space race, there's vandalism on a new Haydock estate, St Helens booms on the jobs front and a big investment is made in RC schools. And in other news, a 12-year-old Bootle boy called Keith Chegwin gets his big break in London’s West End.
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Sherdley Park Houses St Helens

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (25th Feb. - 3rd March 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include an invasion of giant sewer rats in Sutton, Saints get into a row with Oldham, council workmen in Sutton Manor are nominated as the slowest wall builders on record, Greenall's upset St Helens Labour clubs and there's a feature on hairdressers in the St Helens Reporter (do you remember Hairport, Lockhart's, R. Du-Fay etc?).
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Rockware Glass St Helens

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include the shame of a St Helens' bobby, a strike at BICC in Prescot, the residents of Woodville Street fear being "shaken to pieces" by Rockware Glass, there's a gas outage in Blackbrook, Pilks' announce expansion plans, the death of Kenneth Horne and communal TV is planned for council tenants in Berrys Lane and Pendlebury Street.
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Plaza St Helens

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's sixteen stories include the end of the Greenall's beer strike, an MP protests over child killer Mary Bell being held in Newton-le-Willows, a bomb scare at the Plaza in Duke Street, a new dancing school in Prescot Road, prime minister Harold Wilson writes about Eccleston's new library and the fury of the ladies of the Victoria Park bowls team.
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Pilkingtons

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories including a shocking case of gang rape on a 14-year-old girl, the father who gave his son the most severe thrashing of his life, a strike at Greenall Whitley, the Reporter's feature on the new Rivington Comprehensive, Prescot Council controversially donates cash to Radio Merseyside and a noble ufologist lectures in the Theatre Royal.
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Triplex St Helens

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28th Jan. - 3rd Feb. 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's many stories include the house where five slept in a bed, a claim that the Corporation was killing off the residents of Princess Avenue, a married couple are wanted at Windle island, a Thatto Heath toy collection for under-privileged children, Crank School prepares for decimalisation and a call for a new old people's hut for Gaskell Park.
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Beth Avenue St Helens

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's 20 stories include plans for a "mini-Manhattan" town centre skyline, proposals for the Beth Avenue estate in Sutton, Rainford's railway rubbish, a scheme to modernise 5,000 council homes, good news for the town's bin men, a robbery of an elderly Newton shopkeeper, a new hostel for the Sally Army and a new baby clinic for Rainford.
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Frankie Howerd

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

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's stories include Grange Park Labour Club's court case, an Eccleston bus compromise, a puppet spectacular at the Theatre Royal, the Mayor's Christmas Party Fund is explained, parking meters for St Helens are criticised, the St Helens AA restock part of the canal and two people are in the money after winning 'spot the ball' competitions.
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Sidac St Helens

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th January 1969)

written by: Stephen Wainwright
This week's twenty-two stories include the damp state of many St Helens homes, the demise of dawn queuing in the New Year sales, the Plaza Theatre Club is in court, Sidac buy a computer costing £1 million in today's money, a Prescot butcher's assistant is mugged, more car parking places and a Dentons Green man wins the Echo's 'Place the Ball' contest.
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