FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 20 - 26 MAY 1974
This week's many stories include the 150 Rainford protesters demonstrating outside St Helens Town Hall, the angry tenants of houses in Clock Face Road that were supposedly being improved, the plans for round-the-clock picketing of Leathers are shelved, the residents of the Four Acre Lane estate complain about a lack of facilities, it's all change at Cowley Boys and shock, horror – a husband has to look after a baby for a while!
And we begin with the latter story, which made the front page of the St Helens Newspaper on the 21st. It might be the mid-1970s but men and women still largely had gender-specific roles in life. And so Pam Waring's decision to study an Open University course was given much publicity because her husband Garry would have to look after their baby Paul for six weeks while the 17-year-old from Dominic Way in Sutton attended a summer school. "Garry To Be Left Holding The Baby" was the headline to the piece.
The Newspaper also described how proposals for round-the-clock picketing of Leathers Chemicals (pictured above) had been called off after what was considered to have been a low turnout at a public meeting to discuss the plans. In fact 100 people had attended the event organised by the East Sutton Residents Association, although 4,000 handbills had been distributed advertising the meeting.
As a result the association's chairman, Jim Atherton, felt they would have an insufficient number of volunteers to provide a 24-hour-picket. "The apathy is just so great", Mr Atherton lamented to the Newspaper. The meeting instead decided to hold a demonstration lasting about two hours. That would take place outside the Lancots Lane plant with the date and time to be fixed at a future meeting.
It was announced this week that Walter Wright would step down as headmaster of Cowley Boys School at the end of the academic year and his deputy, Maurice Clifton, would take his place. Mr Wright had moved to Cowley from Yorkshire in 1955 and was retiring early on medical advice after suffering a severe heart attack a few years ago.
When Mr Clifton took over as Cowley's head the school would be going through a new phase in its history, as it would be open to all pupils aged 11 and over. The thinking was that the school might gradually amalgamate with Cowley Girls and become fully comprehensive.
During the last few weeks there had been much anger in Rainford over council plans to consider demolishing 139 old houses in the village. These were situated in Ormskirk Road, Church Road and Bushey Lane, as well as in Crank. Although the homes were over a hundred years old, most had received improvement grants from the old Rainford Urban District Council and many were still undergoing building work.
But St Helens District Council's Housing and Building Committee now had responsibility for houses in Rainford and they'd taken the demolition decision at what was referred to as a "secret meeting". The list of "potentially unfit" homes had been created by surveyors conducting only an external examination of all the houses, with no inspections made inside.
The casual nature of the decision-making resulted in 150 protesters demonstrating outside St Helens Town Hall on the 22nd. That was because a meeting of St Helens Council was taking place inside in which the survey was going to be discussed. The demonstrators blocked the Town Hall steps, waving banners and placards and chanting slogans, with their local parish councillors supporting them.
About fifty of the demonstrators went inside the council chamber to watch the debate. But Jack Morris, the Chairman of the Housing and Building Committee, took the wind out of their sails by announcing that he was deferring the matter to give his committee members time to review the list. Later Cllr Morris explained that the purpose of the survey had simply been to ascertain local housing needs in the future.
In the St Helens Reporter on the 24th the tenants of houses in Clock Face Road were also expressing their anger with the council. Some had lived in their homes for 40 years and St Helens Corporation had moved them out last October while improvement work took place. The residents claimed to have been promised that they would be able to return to their houses by Christmas. But that had not happened and, as the Reporter put it: "…workmen and the vandals have ruined their carefully kept gardens, strewn building materials and rubbish across them, set fire to garden sheds and smashed fences and windows."
The residents' leader was Tony Smart who told the Reporter: "I think we should get compensation for all the upset." And his wife, Mary, added: "Our homes will be worse when we return than when we left them." Sixty-nine-year-old Bert Robinson described how his garden that had been his pride and joy had been ruined: "It makes you sick. My greenhouse is smashed to bits, the fire brigade's been up once and expensive small conifers in the garden have been stolen."
And neighbours Dan Stanley and Millicent Rigby said: "The workmanship is disgraceful. And the men never do a good day's work. They spend their time drinking tea, playing football in our gardens and mending their cars." The Reporter spoke to Brian Lee, the Borough Architect, whose department was responsible for supervising the work and he blamed the three-day week earlier in the year for the delays, adding: "We are insisting on the very highest standards of workmanship before accepting the houses back."
The contractors were a Liverpool firm called Lockwood's but their spokesman had clearly not been to PR training school, telling the Reporter: "It's none of your business to ask what our workmen are doing. We've got no comment to make."
The residents of the new Four Acre Lane estate had been upset with the council for some time. The Reporter described how last weekend children and adults had held a 100-strong protest march to complain about their lack of facilities. The event was organised by the Four Acre and District Community Council whose secretary, Joyce Morley, told the paper:
"Children are just hanging around at weekends with nowhere to go and nothing to do. There's only the sandpit been provided, and we suggested that. We asked for swings. We were promised them last summer and we've not got them yet. There should be a youth club for all ages and a football pitch for the lads."
However, the council had a different point of view. A spokesman for their Architects Department explained that play areas and equipment had been set up during the first phase of the development when 150 homes had been built but they had been misused. And so the decision had been taken to delay putting in more facilities during Phase 2 in which 300 more homes were being constructed. The spokesman added:
"Teenagers went mad on them at night. The [housing] committee don't put the things in because of vandalism, and people say they don't want play areas next to their houses. But if the tenants and children were prepared to take care of facilities, and ask the council, they would be provided."
Twelve-year-old Christopher Colquitt from Peckers Hill Road was praised in the Reporter after winning the title of top boy soprano at the Chester Music Festival. His brother David had also won the competition in 1971. Sixteen-year-old Gillian Lawrence of Leach Lane also did well in the festival, coming second in the girls' solo contest.
The inaugural three-day Festival of Dance began on the 24th at Rivington Secondary School and it proved a tremendous success. The school was packed on all three days as spectators watched 700 young dancers compete for medals and trophies. During the evening of the 24th Humphrey Lyttleton performed in the Crystal Suite of the Fleece Hotel in Church Street along with the Merseysippi Jazz Band.
And finally, from the 26th 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad' starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal began a week's screening at the ABC Savoy. Meanwhile at the Capitol, 'Horror of Frankenstein' was shown for one night only, and for the rest of the week, Disney's 'Bedknobs & Broomsticks' was screened.
St Helens Reporter and Newspaper courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the Church's fears over the screening of The Exorcist, the opening of new law courts in St Helens, the manager of a TV shop is attacked and Crank residents are up in arms over proposals to build houses in Red Cat Lane.
And we begin with the latter story, which made the front page of the St Helens Newspaper on the 21st. It might be the mid-1970s but men and women still largely had gender-specific roles in life. And so Pam Waring's decision to study an Open University course was given much publicity because her husband Garry would have to look after their baby Paul for six weeks while the 17-year-old from Dominic Way in Sutton attended a summer school. "Garry To Be Left Holding The Baby" was the headline to the piece.
As a result the association's chairman, Jim Atherton, felt they would have an insufficient number of volunteers to provide a 24-hour-picket. "The apathy is just so great", Mr Atherton lamented to the Newspaper. The meeting instead decided to hold a demonstration lasting about two hours. That would take place outside the Lancots Lane plant with the date and time to be fixed at a future meeting.
It was announced this week that Walter Wright would step down as headmaster of Cowley Boys School at the end of the academic year and his deputy, Maurice Clifton, would take his place. Mr Wright had moved to Cowley from Yorkshire in 1955 and was retiring early on medical advice after suffering a severe heart attack a few years ago.
When Mr Clifton took over as Cowley's head the school would be going through a new phase in its history, as it would be open to all pupils aged 11 and over. The thinking was that the school might gradually amalgamate with Cowley Girls and become fully comprehensive.
During the last few weeks there had been much anger in Rainford over council plans to consider demolishing 139 old houses in the village. These were situated in Ormskirk Road, Church Road and Bushey Lane, as well as in Crank. Although the homes were over a hundred years old, most had received improvement grants from the old Rainford Urban District Council and many were still undergoing building work.
But St Helens District Council's Housing and Building Committee now had responsibility for houses in Rainford and they'd taken the demolition decision at what was referred to as a "secret meeting". The list of "potentially unfit" homes had been created by surveyors conducting only an external examination of all the houses, with no inspections made inside.
The casual nature of the decision-making resulted in 150 protesters demonstrating outside St Helens Town Hall on the 22nd. That was because a meeting of St Helens Council was taking place inside in which the survey was going to be discussed. The demonstrators blocked the Town Hall steps, waving banners and placards and chanting slogans, with their local parish councillors supporting them.
About fifty of the demonstrators went inside the council chamber to watch the debate. But Jack Morris, the Chairman of the Housing and Building Committee, took the wind out of their sails by announcing that he was deferring the matter to give his committee members time to review the list. Later Cllr Morris explained that the purpose of the survey had simply been to ascertain local housing needs in the future.
In the St Helens Reporter on the 24th the tenants of houses in Clock Face Road were also expressing their anger with the council. Some had lived in their homes for 40 years and St Helens Corporation had moved them out last October while improvement work took place. The residents claimed to have been promised that they would be able to return to their houses by Christmas. But that had not happened and, as the Reporter put it: "…workmen and the vandals have ruined their carefully kept gardens, strewn building materials and rubbish across them, set fire to garden sheds and smashed fences and windows."
The residents' leader was Tony Smart who told the Reporter: "I think we should get compensation for all the upset." And his wife, Mary, added: "Our homes will be worse when we return than when we left them." Sixty-nine-year-old Bert Robinson described how his garden that had been his pride and joy had been ruined: "It makes you sick. My greenhouse is smashed to bits, the fire brigade's been up once and expensive small conifers in the garden have been stolen."
And neighbours Dan Stanley and Millicent Rigby said: "The workmanship is disgraceful. And the men never do a good day's work. They spend their time drinking tea, playing football in our gardens and mending their cars." The Reporter spoke to Brian Lee, the Borough Architect, whose department was responsible for supervising the work and he blamed the three-day week earlier in the year for the delays, adding: "We are insisting on the very highest standards of workmanship before accepting the houses back."
The contractors were a Liverpool firm called Lockwood's but their spokesman had clearly not been to PR training school, telling the Reporter: "It's none of your business to ask what our workmen are doing. We've got no comment to make."
The residents of the new Four Acre Lane estate had been upset with the council for some time. The Reporter described how last weekend children and adults had held a 100-strong protest march to complain about their lack of facilities. The event was organised by the Four Acre and District Community Council whose secretary, Joyce Morley, told the paper:
"Children are just hanging around at weekends with nowhere to go and nothing to do. There's only the sandpit been provided, and we suggested that. We asked for swings. We were promised them last summer and we've not got them yet. There should be a youth club for all ages and a football pitch for the lads."
However, the council had a different point of view. A spokesman for their Architects Department explained that play areas and equipment had been set up during the first phase of the development when 150 homes had been built but they had been misused. And so the decision had been taken to delay putting in more facilities during Phase 2 in which 300 more homes were being constructed. The spokesman added:
"Teenagers went mad on them at night. The [housing] committee don't put the things in because of vandalism, and people say they don't want play areas next to their houses. But if the tenants and children were prepared to take care of facilities, and ask the council, they would be provided."
Twelve-year-old Christopher Colquitt from Peckers Hill Road was praised in the Reporter after winning the title of top boy soprano at the Chester Music Festival. His brother David had also won the competition in 1971. Sixteen-year-old Gillian Lawrence of Leach Lane also did well in the festival, coming second in the girls' solo contest.
The inaugural three-day Festival of Dance began on the 24th at Rivington Secondary School and it proved a tremendous success. The school was packed on all three days as spectators watched 700 young dancers compete for medals and trophies. During the evening of the 24th Humphrey Lyttleton performed in the Crystal Suite of the Fleece Hotel in Church Street along with the Merseysippi Jazz Band.
And finally, from the 26th 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad' starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal began a week's screening at the ABC Savoy. Meanwhile at the Capitol, 'Horror of Frankenstein' was shown for one night only, and for the rest of the week, Disney's 'Bedknobs & Broomsticks' was screened.
St Helens Reporter and Newspaper courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the Church's fears over the screening of The Exorcist, the opening of new law courts in St Helens, the manager of a TV shop is attacked and Crank residents are up in arms over proposals to build houses in Red Cat Lane.
This week's many stories include the 150 Rainford protesters demonstrating outside St Helens Town Hall, the angry tenants of houses in Clock Face Road that were supposedly being improved, the plans for round-the-clock picketing of Leathers are shelved, it's all change at Cowley Boys, the residents of the Four Acre Lane estate complain about a lack of facilities and shock, horror – a husband has to look after a baby for a while!
And we begin with the latter story, which made the front page of the St Helens Newspaper on the 21st.
It might be the mid-1970s but men and women still largely had gender-specific roles in life.
And so Pam Waring's decision to study an Open University course was given much publicity because her husband Garry would have to look after their baby Paul for six weeks while the 17-year-old from Dominic Way in Sutton attended a summer school.
"Garry To Be Left Holding The Baby" was the headline to the piece.
The Newspaper also described how proposals for round-the-clock picketing of Leathers Chemicals (pictured above) had been called off after what was considered to have been a low turnout at a public meeting to discuss the plans.
In fact 100 people had attended the event organised by the East Sutton Residents Association, although 4,000 handbills had been distributed advertising the meeting.
As a result the association's chairman, Jim Atherton, felt they would have an insufficient number of volunteers to provide a 24-hour-picket. "The apathy is just so great", Mr Atherton lamented to the Newspaper.
The meeting instead decided to hold a demonstration lasting about two hours. That would take place outside the Lancots Lane plant with the date and time to be fixed at a future meeting.
It was announced this week that Walter Wright would step down as headmaster of Cowley Boys School at the end of the academic year and his deputy, Maurice Clifton, would take his place.
Mr Wright had moved to Cowley from Yorkshire in 1955 and was retiring early on medical advice after suffering a severe heart attack a few years ago.
When Mr Clifton took over as Cowley's head the school would be going through a new phase in its history, as it would be open to all pupils aged 11 and over.
The thinking was that the school might gradually amalgamate with Cowley Girls and become fully comprehensive.
During the last few weeks there had been much anger in Rainford over council plans to consider demolishing 139 old houses in the village.
These were situated in Ormskirk Road, Church Road and Bushey Lane, as well as in Crank.
Although the homes were over a hundred years old, most had received improvement grants from the old Rainford Urban District Council and many were still undergoing building work.
But St Helens District Council's Housing and Building Committee now had responsibility for houses in Rainford and they'd taken the demolition decision at what was referred to as a "secret meeting".
The list of "potentially unfit" homes had been created by surveyors conducting only an external examination of all the houses, with no inspections made inside.
The casual nature of the decision-making resulted in 150 protesters demonstrating outside St Helens Town Hall on the 22nd.
That was because a meeting of St Helens Council was taking place inside in which the survey was going to be discussed.
The demonstrators blocked the Town Hall steps, waving banners and placards and chanting slogans, with their local parish councillors supporting them.
About fifty of the demonstrators went inside the council chamber to watch the debate.
But Jack Morris, the Chairman of the Housing and Building Committee, took the wind out of their sails by announcing that he was deferring the matter to give his committee members time to review the list.
Later Cllr Morris explained that the purpose of the survey had simply been to ascertain local housing needs in the future.
In the St Helens Reporter on the 24th the tenants of houses in Clock Face Road were also expressing their anger with the council.
Some had lived in their homes for 40 years and St Helens Corporation had moved them out last October while improvement work took place.
The residents claimed to have been promised that they would be able to return to their houses by Christmas. But that had not happened and, as the Reporter put it:
"…workmen and the vandals have ruined their carefully kept gardens, strewn building materials and rubbish across them, set fire to garden sheds and smashed fences and windows."
The residents' leader was Tony Smart who told the Reporter: "I think we should get compensation for all the upset."
And his wife, Mary, added: "Our homes will be worse when we return than when we left them."
Sixty-nine-year-old Bert Robinson described how his garden that had been his pride and joy had been ruined:
"It makes you sick. My greenhouse is smashed to bits, the fire brigade's been up once and expensive small conifers in the garden have been stolen."
And neighbours Dan Stanley and Millicent Rigby said: "The workmanship is disgraceful. And the men never do a good day's work. They spend their time drinking tea, playing football in our gardens and mending their cars."
The Reporter spoke to Brian Lee, the Borough Architect, whose department was responsible for supervising the work and he blamed the three-day week earlier in the year for the delays, adding:
"We are insisting on the very highest standards of workmanship before accepting the houses back."
The contractors were a Liverpool firm called Lockwood's but their spokesman had clearly not been to PR training school, telling the Reporter:
"It's none of your business to ask what our workmen are doing. We've got no comment to make."
The residents of the new Four Acre Lane estate had been upset with the council for some time.
The Reporter described how last weekend children and adults had held a 100-strong protest march to complain about their lack of facilities.
The event was organised by the Four Acre and District Community Council whose secretary, Joyce Morley, told the paper:
"Children are just hanging around at weekends with nowhere to go and nothing to do. There's only the sandpit been provided, and we suggested that.
"We asked for swings. We were promised them last summer and we've not got them yet. There should be a youth club for all ages and a football pitch for the lads."
However, the council had a different point of view. A spokesman for their Architects Department explained that play areas and equipment had been set up during the first phase of the development when 150 homes had been built but they had been misused.
And so the decision had been taken to delay putting in more facilities during Phase 2 in which 300 more homes were being constructed. The spokesman added:
"Teenagers went mad on them at night. The [housing] committee don't put the things in because of vandalism, and people say they don't want play areas next to their houses.
"But if the tenants and children were prepared to take care of facilities, and ask the council, they would be provided."
Twelve-year-old Christopher Colquitt from Peckers Hill Road was praised in the Reporter after winning the title of top boy soprano at the Chester Music Festival. His brother David had also won the competition in 1971.
Sixteen-year-old Gillian Lawrence of Leach Lane also did well in the festival, coming second in the girls' solo contest.
The inaugural three-day Festival of Dance began on the 24th at Rivington Secondary School and it proved a tremendous success.
The school was packed on all three days as spectators watched 700 young dancers compete for medals and trophies.
During the evening of the 24th Humphrey Lyttleton performed in the Crystal Suite of the Fleece Hotel in Church Street along with the Merseysippi Jazz Band.
And finally, from the 26th 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad' starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal began a week's screening at the ABC Savoy.
Meanwhile at the Capitol, 'Horror of Frankenstein' was shown for one night only, and for the rest of the week, Disney's 'Bedknobs & Broomsticks' was screened.
St Helens Reporter and Newspaper courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the Church's fears over the screening of The Exorcist, the opening of new law courts in St Helens, the manager of a TV shop is attacked and Crank residents are up in arms over proposals to build houses in Red Cat Lane.
And we begin with the latter story, which made the front page of the St Helens Newspaper on the 21st.
It might be the mid-1970s but men and women still largely had gender-specific roles in life.
And so Pam Waring's decision to study an Open University course was given much publicity because her husband Garry would have to look after their baby Paul for six weeks while the 17-year-old from Dominic Way in Sutton attended a summer school.
"Garry To Be Left Holding The Baby" was the headline to the piece.
In fact 100 people had attended the event organised by the East Sutton Residents Association, although 4,000 handbills had been distributed advertising the meeting.
As a result the association's chairman, Jim Atherton, felt they would have an insufficient number of volunteers to provide a 24-hour-picket. "The apathy is just so great", Mr Atherton lamented to the Newspaper.
The meeting instead decided to hold a demonstration lasting about two hours. That would take place outside the Lancots Lane plant with the date and time to be fixed at a future meeting.
It was announced this week that Walter Wright would step down as headmaster of Cowley Boys School at the end of the academic year and his deputy, Maurice Clifton, would take his place.
Mr Wright had moved to Cowley from Yorkshire in 1955 and was retiring early on medical advice after suffering a severe heart attack a few years ago.
When Mr Clifton took over as Cowley's head the school would be going through a new phase in its history, as it would be open to all pupils aged 11 and over.
The thinking was that the school might gradually amalgamate with Cowley Girls and become fully comprehensive.
During the last few weeks there had been much anger in Rainford over council plans to consider demolishing 139 old houses in the village.
These were situated in Ormskirk Road, Church Road and Bushey Lane, as well as in Crank.
Although the homes were over a hundred years old, most had received improvement grants from the old Rainford Urban District Council and many were still undergoing building work.
But St Helens District Council's Housing and Building Committee now had responsibility for houses in Rainford and they'd taken the demolition decision at what was referred to as a "secret meeting".
The list of "potentially unfit" homes had been created by surveyors conducting only an external examination of all the houses, with no inspections made inside.
The casual nature of the decision-making resulted in 150 protesters demonstrating outside St Helens Town Hall on the 22nd.
That was because a meeting of St Helens Council was taking place inside in which the survey was going to be discussed.
The demonstrators blocked the Town Hall steps, waving banners and placards and chanting slogans, with their local parish councillors supporting them.
About fifty of the demonstrators went inside the council chamber to watch the debate.
But Jack Morris, the Chairman of the Housing and Building Committee, took the wind out of their sails by announcing that he was deferring the matter to give his committee members time to review the list.
Later Cllr Morris explained that the purpose of the survey had simply been to ascertain local housing needs in the future.
In the St Helens Reporter on the 24th the tenants of houses in Clock Face Road were also expressing their anger with the council.
Some had lived in their homes for 40 years and St Helens Corporation had moved them out last October while improvement work took place.
The residents claimed to have been promised that they would be able to return to their houses by Christmas. But that had not happened and, as the Reporter put it:
"…workmen and the vandals have ruined their carefully kept gardens, strewn building materials and rubbish across them, set fire to garden sheds and smashed fences and windows."
The residents' leader was Tony Smart who told the Reporter: "I think we should get compensation for all the upset."
And his wife, Mary, added: "Our homes will be worse when we return than when we left them."
Sixty-nine-year-old Bert Robinson described how his garden that had been his pride and joy had been ruined:
"It makes you sick. My greenhouse is smashed to bits, the fire brigade's been up once and expensive small conifers in the garden have been stolen."
And neighbours Dan Stanley and Millicent Rigby said: "The workmanship is disgraceful. And the men never do a good day's work. They spend their time drinking tea, playing football in our gardens and mending their cars."
The Reporter spoke to Brian Lee, the Borough Architect, whose department was responsible for supervising the work and he blamed the three-day week earlier in the year for the delays, adding:
"We are insisting on the very highest standards of workmanship before accepting the houses back."
The contractors were a Liverpool firm called Lockwood's but their spokesman had clearly not been to PR training school, telling the Reporter:
"It's none of your business to ask what our workmen are doing. We've got no comment to make."
The residents of the new Four Acre Lane estate had been upset with the council for some time.
The Reporter described how last weekend children and adults had held a 100-strong protest march to complain about their lack of facilities.
The event was organised by the Four Acre and District Community Council whose secretary, Joyce Morley, told the paper:
"Children are just hanging around at weekends with nowhere to go and nothing to do. There's only the sandpit been provided, and we suggested that.
"We asked for swings. We were promised them last summer and we've not got them yet. There should be a youth club for all ages and a football pitch for the lads."
However, the council had a different point of view. A spokesman for their Architects Department explained that play areas and equipment had been set up during the first phase of the development when 150 homes had been built but they had been misused.
And so the decision had been taken to delay putting in more facilities during Phase 2 in which 300 more homes were being constructed. The spokesman added:
"Teenagers went mad on them at night. The [housing] committee don't put the things in because of vandalism, and people say they don't want play areas next to their houses.
"But if the tenants and children were prepared to take care of facilities, and ask the council, they would be provided."
Twelve-year-old Christopher Colquitt from Peckers Hill Road was praised in the Reporter after winning the title of top boy soprano at the Chester Music Festival. His brother David had also won the competition in 1971.
Sixteen-year-old Gillian Lawrence of Leach Lane also did well in the festival, coming second in the girls' solo contest.
The inaugural three-day Festival of Dance began on the 24th at Rivington Secondary School and it proved a tremendous success.
The school was packed on all three days as spectators watched 700 young dancers compete for medals and trophies.
During the evening of the 24th Humphrey Lyttleton performed in the Crystal Suite of the Fleece Hotel in Church Street along with the Merseysippi Jazz Band.
And finally, from the 26th 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad' starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal began a week's screening at the ABC Savoy.
Meanwhile at the Capitol, 'Horror of Frankenstein' was shown for one night only, and for the rest of the week, Disney's 'Bedknobs & Broomsticks' was screened.
St Helens Reporter and Newspaper courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the Church's fears over the screening of The Exorcist, the opening of new law courts in St Helens, the manager of a TV shop is attacked and Crank residents are up in arms over proposals to build houses in Red Cat Lane.