FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 6 - 12 JULY 1976
This week's many stories include the heatwave's rising cost of vegetables, the Turkish bath temperatures on buses, the drowning in the Hotties, the 70 schoolchildren forced to walk 7 miles home, the fuss when a girl gets a job as a printing apprentice and a call for schoolchildren to undertake work placements.
We begin with a walkout at Triplex – over a shower. The unofficial strike by over 200 electricians and plumbers had been the result of the men finding production staff using the showers that they believed were for their exclusive use. But after the management at Triplex had found them other showers to use, the men agreed to return to their jobs.
On the 6th seventy Rainford schoolchildren, who attended St Bede's RC School in Ormskirk, were forced to make a 7-mile walk home. That was after their school bus failed to turn up and another Ribble bus, which stopped near the school, refused to pick them up. The latter was the regular scheduled service and the bus conductor either felt he could not accommodate so many youngsters or would not accept their passes.
Peter Haunch of Derby Drive in Rainford, whose 14-year-old daughter Angela and her 13-year-old sister Brenda attended St Bede's, told the Reporter: "The service is a sheer disgrace. In the past the children have complained of buses not turning up in the morning, and of conductors refusing to accept bus passes."
After complaints from angry parents and enquiries from St Helens Council who had given the bus company the contract, Ribble was said to be interviewing the staff concerned. A week later the bus company said they would not be taking any action against the conductor involved. He had told them that he'd been unaware that the school bus had failed to turn up and had felt that the children who wanted to ride on his bus were acting in an unruly manner.
At the St Helens Council meeting on the 7th, Cllr Pat Ashton once again attacked the powerboats that he claimed were destroying the peace and beauty of Carr Mill Dam. He demanded action from his colleagues to safeguard the dam for the people of St Helens and referenced how wildlife had been driven away from the waters and a swan alleged to have been killed:
"How long are this destructive minority group to be allowed to operate this licence to kill in the sadistic manner which they have the audacity to call pleasure? It is high time we took a look at the Lake District where power boats are forbidden."
The St Helens Reporter's lead story on the 9th was that wholesalers and retailers had made a "grim warning" to St Helens housewives to expect a "huge jump" in vegetable prices of up to 15p a pound. That was because the current heatwave was reducing both the yield and quality of crops. Cauliflowers, cabbages, carrots, lettuce and turnips were all affected.
Dennis Foster, a vegetable wholesaler from Shaw Street, said: "The heatwave has made crops scarcer so they are harder to get and I have to spend more money to get them. If I have to spend more money, I will have to sell them for more money."
And Tom Bannister, who ran a stall in St Mary's Market with his wife Joyce, agreed, saying: "The situation will become grim. Prices are bound to soar because there is more demand for vegetables than supplies available. I am also worried about the quality of the crops." Pearson's of Concourse Way in Parr described how scarcity had already forced some vegetable prices to rise. Manager Mildred Allison said:
"Last week we were selling cauliflowers for 7p, now they are 17p because of their scarcity." And farmer John Berry of Crank Hall Farm said he was very concerned about the situation: "If it does not rain soon the crops will be disastrous. Most of my stuff is wilting now. I will give it another fortnight to survive."
One might have thought that a bus journey with its windows open letting in a gentle breeze would be a refreshing experience in the heatwave. But not if the heating was on full blast! This is the introduction to a Reporter article written by Jacqueline Salt under the headline "Heat Brings Buses To A Halt":
"Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive have carried out a check on half their St. Helens bus fleet after complaints from sweltering passengers that heating had been left on despite the heatwave. Passengers and drivers had to bear “Turkish bath” temperatures in two of the buses which had developed faults in their automatic heating and ventilation systems . . . until tempers “blew up” and they complained."
The Reporter also suggested that restrictions on water use in St Helens could be just around the corner. Although folk in the North West were said to be better off than most places for water supplies, another few weeks of dry weather was expected to create serious problems.
I find it quite amusing reading the front-page news stories in the Reporter that described how a female had obtained a job in a traditionally male environment. This week the paper had an extensive write-up on "pretty Michelle Glover" who had been taken on as a printing apprentice with their own publisher, South Lancashire Newspapers. The 16-year-old from Bronte Street had just left Cowley Girls School and described how she couldn't wait to get started.
It was claimed that up until a couple of years ago it would have been out of the question for a female to be employed in printing work because of the nature of the job. John Bradbury of the National Graphical Association said: "But now with new computer technologies, the work is much cleaner and far less physically demanding." As if women had never done any strenuous, dirty work before!
And this week Bruce Caulfield, the Employment Manager at St Helens, was calling for youngsters to undertake work experience while at school. Mr Caulfield said currently some groups of schoolchildren were taken around firms by their careers masters "to see what goes on" but would benefit more from a period in actual employment in order to develop a full understanding of the work environment. There was the Trident placement scheme that had begun in 1975 but that was voluntary and only benefitted a small number of pupils.
The Reporter had a curious article on female virginity prompted by a new pamphlet on sex education that claimed that most men wanted to marry virgins. Councillor Dorothy Fogg was the Deputy Chair of the St Helens Social Services Committee and said she agreed with the sentiment but wondered where men could find such a female! She was quoted as telling the paper: "I would think most men would like to marry virgins, but where do you find any these days? It is very difficult?" There was no mention of male virginity in the piece.
In another article the Reporter predicted that traffic hold-ups in St Helens could soon become a thing of the past as a computerised system was being set up in Liverpool that would control the town's traffic lights.
It was also stated that Pilkingtons had made a joint planning application with Waste Clearance Ltd to use Burtonhead Quarry in Burtonhead Road for the disposal of industrial, commercial and domestic waste. If approved by the council, the new tipping site would replace the existing Greengate tip which was going to be landscaped.
And the paper described how Albert and Eve Hill, who had returned to St Helens for a holiday after emigrating to Australia in 1957, were not very impressed with the redeveloped town. "It looks like the after-effects of the Blitz," the couple declared. They liked the new shopping centre but said, "The disappearing terraces and the new green spaces come as something of a shock."
On the 10th and the 11th over 2,000 pilgrims visited the shrine to the Blessed Dominic Barberi at Sutton Monastery where special services were conducted. The annual pilgrimage had first begun in the 1920s.
Also on the 11th, Margaret Matthews of Dominic Way in St Helens drowned in the St Helens Canal. The death of the 9-year-old was another tragedy at the Hotties (pictured above), the stretch of water where Pilkingtons Sheet Works pumped out warm effluent, which made it very attractive to youngsters. The Hotties safety patrol of volunteers who chased children out of the water and operated from 9am to 9pm had yet to begin, as the service only ran during the school summer holidays.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include a worker's death at Leathers Chemicals, why Percy the penguin was not being allowed to have a partner, the stigma of Beth Avenue and the houses in St Helens that were breaking the £10,000 price barrier.
We begin with a walkout at Triplex – over a shower. The unofficial strike by over 200 electricians and plumbers had been the result of the men finding production staff using the showers that they believed were for their exclusive use. But after the management at Triplex had found them other showers to use, the men agreed to return to their jobs.
On the 6th seventy Rainford schoolchildren, who attended St Bede's RC School in Ormskirk, were forced to make a 7-mile walk home. That was after their school bus failed to turn up and another Ribble bus, which stopped near the school, refused to pick them up. The latter was the regular scheduled service and the bus conductor either felt he could not accommodate so many youngsters or would not accept their passes.
Peter Haunch of Derby Drive in Rainford, whose 14-year-old daughter Angela and her 13-year-old sister Brenda attended St Bede's, told the Reporter: "The service is a sheer disgrace. In the past the children have complained of buses not turning up in the morning, and of conductors refusing to accept bus passes."
After complaints from angry parents and enquiries from St Helens Council who had given the bus company the contract, Ribble was said to be interviewing the staff concerned. A week later the bus company said they would not be taking any action against the conductor involved. He had told them that he'd been unaware that the school bus had failed to turn up and had felt that the children who wanted to ride on his bus were acting in an unruly manner.
At the St Helens Council meeting on the 7th, Cllr Pat Ashton once again attacked the powerboats that he claimed were destroying the peace and beauty of Carr Mill Dam. He demanded action from his colleagues to safeguard the dam for the people of St Helens and referenced how wildlife had been driven away from the waters and a swan alleged to have been killed:
"How long are this destructive minority group to be allowed to operate this licence to kill in the sadistic manner which they have the audacity to call pleasure? It is high time we took a look at the Lake District where power boats are forbidden."
The St Helens Reporter's lead story on the 9th was that wholesalers and retailers had made a "grim warning" to St Helens housewives to expect a "huge jump" in vegetable prices of up to 15p a pound. That was because the current heatwave was reducing both the yield and quality of crops. Cauliflowers, cabbages, carrots, lettuce and turnips were all affected.
Dennis Foster, a vegetable wholesaler from Shaw Street, said: "The heatwave has made crops scarcer so they are harder to get and I have to spend more money to get them. If I have to spend more money, I will have to sell them for more money."
And Tom Bannister, who ran a stall in St Mary's Market with his wife Joyce, agreed, saying: "The situation will become grim. Prices are bound to soar because there is more demand for vegetables than supplies available. I am also worried about the quality of the crops." Pearson's of Concourse Way in Parr described how scarcity had already forced some vegetable prices to rise. Manager Mildred Allison said:
"Last week we were selling cauliflowers for 7p, now they are 17p because of their scarcity." And farmer John Berry of Crank Hall Farm said he was very concerned about the situation: "If it does not rain soon the crops will be disastrous. Most of my stuff is wilting now. I will give it another fortnight to survive."
One might have thought that a bus journey with its windows open letting in a gentle breeze would be a refreshing experience in the heatwave. But not if the heating was on full blast! This is the introduction to a Reporter article written by Jacqueline Salt under the headline "Heat Brings Buses To A Halt":
"Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive have carried out a check on half their St. Helens bus fleet after complaints from sweltering passengers that heating had been left on despite the heatwave. Passengers and drivers had to bear “Turkish bath” temperatures in two of the buses which had developed faults in their automatic heating and ventilation systems . . . until tempers “blew up” and they complained."
The Reporter also suggested that restrictions on water use in St Helens could be just around the corner. Although folk in the North West were said to be better off than most places for water supplies, another few weeks of dry weather was expected to create serious problems.
I find it quite amusing reading the front-page news stories in the Reporter that described how a female had obtained a job in a traditionally male environment. This week the paper had an extensive write-up on "pretty Michelle Glover" who had been taken on as a printing apprentice with their own publisher, South Lancashire Newspapers. The 16-year-old from Bronte Street had just left Cowley Girls School and described how she couldn't wait to get started.
It was claimed that up until a couple of years ago it would have been out of the question for a female to be employed in printing work because of the nature of the job. John Bradbury of the National Graphical Association said: "But now with new computer technologies, the work is much cleaner and far less physically demanding." As if women had never done any strenuous, dirty work before!
And this week Bruce Caulfield, the Employment Manager at St Helens, was calling for youngsters to undertake work experience while at school. Mr Caulfield said currently some groups of schoolchildren were taken around firms by their careers masters "to see what goes on" but would benefit more from a period in actual employment in order to develop a full understanding of the work environment. There was the Trident placement scheme that had begun in 1975 but that was voluntary and only benefitted a small number of pupils.
The Reporter had a curious article on female virginity prompted by a new pamphlet on sex education that claimed that most men wanted to marry virgins. Councillor Dorothy Fogg was the Deputy Chair of the St Helens Social Services Committee and said she agreed with the sentiment but wondered where men could find such a female! She was quoted as telling the paper: "I would think most men would like to marry virgins, but where do you find any these days? It is very difficult?" There was no mention of male virginity in the piece.
In another article the Reporter predicted that traffic hold-ups in St Helens could soon become a thing of the past as a computerised system was being set up in Liverpool that would control the town's traffic lights.
It was also stated that Pilkingtons had made a joint planning application with Waste Clearance Ltd to use Burtonhead Quarry in Burtonhead Road for the disposal of industrial, commercial and domestic waste. If approved by the council, the new tipping site would replace the existing Greengate tip which was going to be landscaped.
And the paper described how Albert and Eve Hill, who had returned to St Helens for a holiday after emigrating to Australia in 1957, were not very impressed with the redeveloped town. "It looks like the after-effects of the Blitz," the couple declared. They liked the new shopping centre but said, "The disappearing terraces and the new green spaces come as something of a shock."
On the 10th and the 11th over 2,000 pilgrims visited the shrine to the Blessed Dominic Barberi at Sutton Monastery where special services were conducted. The annual pilgrimage had first begun in the 1920s.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include a worker's death at Leathers Chemicals, why Percy the penguin was not being allowed to have a partner, the stigma of Beth Avenue and the houses in St Helens that were breaking the £10,000 price barrier.
This week's many stories include the heatwave's rising cost of vegetables, the Turkish bath temperatures on buses, the drowning in the Hotties, the 70 schoolchildren forced to walk 7 miles home, the fuss when a girl gets a job as a printing apprentice and a call for schoolchildren to undertake work placements.
We begin with a walkout at Triplex – over a shower.
The unofficial strike by over 200 electricians and plumbers had been the result of the men finding production staff using the showers that they believed were for their exclusive use.
But after the management at Triplex had found them other showers to use, the men agreed to return to their jobs.
On the 6th seventy Rainford schoolchildren, who attended St Bede's RC School in Ormskirk, were forced to make a 7-mile walk home.
That was after their school bus failed to turn up and another Ribble bus, which stopped near the school, refused to pick them up.
The latter was the regular scheduled service and the bus conductor either felt he could not accommodate so many youngsters or would not accept their passes.
Peter Haunch of Derby Drive in Rainford, whose 14-year-old daughter Angela and her 13-year-old sister Brenda attended St Bede's, told the Reporter:
"The service is a sheer disgrace. In the past the children have complained of buses not turning up in the morning, and of conductors refusing to accept bus passes."
After complaints from angry parents and enquiries from St Helens Council who had given the bus company the contract, Ribble was said to be interviewing the staff concerned.
A week later the bus company said they would not be taking any action against the conductor involved.
He had told them that he'd been unaware that the school bus had failed to turn up and had felt that the children who wanted to ride on his bus were acting in an unruly manner.
At the St Helens Council meeting on the 7th, Cllr Pat Ashton once again attacked the powerboats that he claimed were destroying the peace and beauty of Carr Mill Dam.
He demanded action from his colleagues to safeguard the dam for the people of St Helens and referenced how wildlife had been driven away from the waters and a swan alleged to have been killed:
"How long are this destructive minority group to be allowed to operate this licence to kill in the sadistic manner which they have the audacity to call pleasure? It is high time we took a look at the Lake District where power boats are forbidden."
The St Helens Reporter's lead story on the 9th was that wholesalers and retailers had made a "grim warning" to St Helens housewives to expect a "huge jump" in vegetable prices of up to 15p a pound.
That was because the current heatwave was reducing both the yield and quality of crops. Cauliflowers, cabbages, carrots, lettuce and turnips were all affected.
Dennis Foster, a vegetable wholesaler from Shaw Street, said:
"The heatwave has made crops scarcer so they are harder to get and I have to spend more money to get them. If I have to spend more money, I will have to sell them for more money."
And Tom Bannister, who ran a stall in St Mary's Market with his wife Joyce, agreed, saying:
"The situation will become grim. Prices are bound to soar because there is more demand for vegetables than supplies available. I am also worried about the quality of the crops."
Pearson's of Concourse Way in Parr described how scarcity had already forced some vegetable prices to rise.
Manager Mildred Allison said: "Last week we were selling cauliflowers for 7p, now they are 17p because of their scarcity."
And farmer John Berry of Crank Hall Farm said he was very concerned about the situation:
"If it does not rain soon the crops will be disastrous. Most of my stuff is wilting now. I will give it another fortnight to survive."
One might have thought that a bus journey with its windows open letting in a gentle breeze would be a refreshing experience in the heatwave. But not if the heating was on full blast!
This is the introduction to a Reporter article written by Jacqueline Salt under the headline "Heat Brings Buses To A Halt":
"Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive have carried out a check on half their St. Helens bus fleet after complaints from sweltering passengers that heating had been left on despite the heatwave.
"Passengers and drivers had to bear “Turkish bath” temperatures in two of the buses which had developed faults in their automatic heating and ventilation systems . . . until tempers “blew up” and they complained."
The Reporter also suggested that restrictions on water use in St Helens could be just around the corner.
Although folk in the North West were said to be better off than most places for water supplies, another few weeks of dry weather was expected to create serious problems.
I find it quite amusing reading the front-page news stories in the Reporter that described how a female had obtained a job in a traditionally male environment.
This week the paper had an extensive write-up on "pretty Michelle Glover" who had been taken on as a printing apprentice with their own publisher, South Lancashire Newspapers.
The 16-year-old from Bronte Street had just left Cowley Girls School and described how she couldn't wait to get started.
It was claimed that up until a couple of years ago it would have been out of the question for a female to be employed in printing work because of the nature of the job.
John Bradbury of the National Graphical Association said: "But now with new computer technologies, the work is much cleaner and far less physically demanding." As if women had never done any strenuous, dirty work before!
And this week Bruce Caulfield, the Employment Manager at St Helens, was calling for youngsters to undertake work experience while at school.
Mr Caulfield said currently some groups of schoolchildren were taken around firms by their careers masters "to see what goes on" but would benefit more from a period in actual employment in order to develop a full understanding of the work environment.
There was the Trident placement scheme that had begun in 1975 but that was voluntary and only benefitted a small number of pupils.
The Reporter had a curious article on female virginity prompted by a new pamphlet on sex education that claimed that most men wanted to marry virgins.
Councillor Dorothy Fogg was the Deputy Chair of the St Helens Social Services Committee and said she agreed with the sentiment but wondered where men could find such a female! She was quoted as telling the paper:
"I would think most men would like to marry virgins, but where do you find any these days? It is very difficult?" There was no mention of male virginity in the piece.
In another article the Reporter predicted that traffic hold-ups in St Helens could soon become a thing of the past as a computerised system was being set up in Liverpool that would control the town's traffic lights.
It was also stated that Pilkingtons had made a joint planning application with Waste Clearance Ltd to use Burtonhead Quarry in Burtonhead Road for the disposal of industrial, commercial and domestic waste.
If approved by the council, the new tipping site would replace the existing Greengate tip which was going to be landscaped.
And the paper described how Albert and Eve Hill, who had returned to St Helens for a holiday after emigrating to Australia in 1957, were not very impressed with the redeveloped town.
"It looks like the after-effects of the Blitz," the couple declared. They liked the new shopping centre but said, "The disappearing terraces and the new green spaces come as something of a shock."
On the 10th and the 11th over 2,000 pilgrims visited the shrine to the Blessed Dominic Barberi at Sutton Monastery where special services were conducted. The annual pilgrimage had first begun in the 1920s.
On the 11th Margaret Matthews of Dominic Way in St Helens drowned in the St Helens Canal.
The death of the 9-year-old was another tragedy at the Hotties (pictured above), the stretch of water where Pilkington's Sheet Works pumped out warm effluent, which made it very attractive to youngsters.
The Hotties safety patrol of volunteers who chased children out of the water and operated from 9am to 9pm had yet to begin, as the service only ran during the school summer holidays.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include a worker's death at Leathers Chemicals, why Percy the penguin was not being allowed to have a partner, the stigma of Beth Avenue and the houses in St Helens that were breaking the £10,000 price barrier.
We begin with a walkout at Triplex – over a shower.
The unofficial strike by over 200 electricians and plumbers had been the result of the men finding production staff using the showers that they believed were for their exclusive use.
But after the management at Triplex had found them other showers to use, the men agreed to return to their jobs.
On the 6th seventy Rainford schoolchildren, who attended St Bede's RC School in Ormskirk, were forced to make a 7-mile walk home.
That was after their school bus failed to turn up and another Ribble bus, which stopped near the school, refused to pick them up.
The latter was the regular scheduled service and the bus conductor either felt he could not accommodate so many youngsters or would not accept their passes.
Peter Haunch of Derby Drive in Rainford, whose 14-year-old daughter Angela and her 13-year-old sister Brenda attended St Bede's, told the Reporter:
"The service is a sheer disgrace. In the past the children have complained of buses not turning up in the morning, and of conductors refusing to accept bus passes."
After complaints from angry parents and enquiries from St Helens Council who had given the bus company the contract, Ribble was said to be interviewing the staff concerned.
A week later the bus company said they would not be taking any action against the conductor involved.
He had told them that he'd been unaware that the school bus had failed to turn up and had felt that the children who wanted to ride on his bus were acting in an unruly manner.
At the St Helens Council meeting on the 7th, Cllr Pat Ashton once again attacked the powerboats that he claimed were destroying the peace and beauty of Carr Mill Dam.
He demanded action from his colleagues to safeguard the dam for the people of St Helens and referenced how wildlife had been driven away from the waters and a swan alleged to have been killed:
"How long are this destructive minority group to be allowed to operate this licence to kill in the sadistic manner which they have the audacity to call pleasure? It is high time we took a look at the Lake District where power boats are forbidden."
The St Helens Reporter's lead story on the 9th was that wholesalers and retailers had made a "grim warning" to St Helens housewives to expect a "huge jump" in vegetable prices of up to 15p a pound.
That was because the current heatwave was reducing both the yield and quality of crops. Cauliflowers, cabbages, carrots, lettuce and turnips were all affected.
Dennis Foster, a vegetable wholesaler from Shaw Street, said:
"The heatwave has made crops scarcer so they are harder to get and I have to spend more money to get them. If I have to spend more money, I will have to sell them for more money."
And Tom Bannister, who ran a stall in St Mary's Market with his wife Joyce, agreed, saying:
"The situation will become grim. Prices are bound to soar because there is more demand for vegetables than supplies available. I am also worried about the quality of the crops."
Pearson's of Concourse Way in Parr described how scarcity had already forced some vegetable prices to rise.
Manager Mildred Allison said: "Last week we were selling cauliflowers for 7p, now they are 17p because of their scarcity."
And farmer John Berry of Crank Hall Farm said he was very concerned about the situation:
"If it does not rain soon the crops will be disastrous. Most of my stuff is wilting now. I will give it another fortnight to survive."
One might have thought that a bus journey with its windows open letting in a gentle breeze would be a refreshing experience in the heatwave. But not if the heating was on full blast!
This is the introduction to a Reporter article written by Jacqueline Salt under the headline "Heat Brings Buses To A Halt":
"Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive have carried out a check on half their St. Helens bus fleet after complaints from sweltering passengers that heating had been left on despite the heatwave.
"Passengers and drivers had to bear “Turkish bath” temperatures in two of the buses which had developed faults in their automatic heating and ventilation systems . . . until tempers “blew up” and they complained."
The Reporter also suggested that restrictions on water use in St Helens could be just around the corner.
Although folk in the North West were said to be better off than most places for water supplies, another few weeks of dry weather was expected to create serious problems.
I find it quite amusing reading the front-page news stories in the Reporter that described how a female had obtained a job in a traditionally male environment.
This week the paper had an extensive write-up on "pretty Michelle Glover" who had been taken on as a printing apprentice with their own publisher, South Lancashire Newspapers.
The 16-year-old from Bronte Street had just left Cowley Girls School and described how she couldn't wait to get started.
It was claimed that up until a couple of years ago it would have been out of the question for a female to be employed in printing work because of the nature of the job.
John Bradbury of the National Graphical Association said: "But now with new computer technologies, the work is much cleaner and far less physically demanding." As if women had never done any strenuous, dirty work before!
And this week Bruce Caulfield, the Employment Manager at St Helens, was calling for youngsters to undertake work experience while at school.
Mr Caulfield said currently some groups of schoolchildren were taken around firms by their careers masters "to see what goes on" but would benefit more from a period in actual employment in order to develop a full understanding of the work environment.
There was the Trident placement scheme that had begun in 1975 but that was voluntary and only benefitted a small number of pupils.
The Reporter had a curious article on female virginity prompted by a new pamphlet on sex education that claimed that most men wanted to marry virgins.
Councillor Dorothy Fogg was the Deputy Chair of the St Helens Social Services Committee and said she agreed with the sentiment but wondered where men could find such a female! She was quoted as telling the paper:
"I would think most men would like to marry virgins, but where do you find any these days? It is very difficult?" There was no mention of male virginity in the piece.
In another article the Reporter predicted that traffic hold-ups in St Helens could soon become a thing of the past as a computerised system was being set up in Liverpool that would control the town's traffic lights.
It was also stated that Pilkingtons had made a joint planning application with Waste Clearance Ltd to use Burtonhead Quarry in Burtonhead Road for the disposal of industrial, commercial and domestic waste.
If approved by the council, the new tipping site would replace the existing Greengate tip which was going to be landscaped.
And the paper described how Albert and Eve Hill, who had returned to St Helens for a holiday after emigrating to Australia in 1957, were not very impressed with the redeveloped town.
"It looks like the after-effects of the Blitz," the couple declared. They liked the new shopping centre but said, "The disappearing terraces and the new green spaces come as something of a shock."
On the 10th and the 11th over 2,000 pilgrims visited the shrine to the Blessed Dominic Barberi at Sutton Monastery where special services were conducted. The annual pilgrimage had first begun in the 1920s.
On the 11th Margaret Matthews of Dominic Way in St Helens drowned in the St Helens Canal.
The Hotties safety patrol of volunteers who chased children out of the water and operated from 9am to 9pm had yet to begin, as the service only ran during the school summer holidays.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include a worker's death at Leathers Chemicals, why Percy the penguin was not being allowed to have a partner, the stigma of Beth Avenue and the houses in St Helens that were breaking the £10,000 price barrier.