HeyJaredStephen Wainwright
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Looking Back: The controversial pedestrianisation of Hardshaw Street (opens the original)
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A BIG talking point in St Helens fifty years ago was the pedestrianisation of Hardshaw Street, writes Stephen Wainwright. The controversial scheme designed to improve public access and safety was in 1976 itself accused of being a danger to pedestrians. That was because heavy vehicles were still being allowed to deliver goods to shops in the street and cars and security vans were being granted access to its banks and building societies. Anniece Beck from Pennine Drive in Parr told the St Helens R
Looking Back: Forty years since demolition began at St Helens' Fleece Hotel (opens the original)
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FORTY years ago this week, the demolition of the cherished Fleece Hotel in St Helens was getting underway, writes Stephen Wainwright. Although few St Helens residents probably stayed overnight in the Fleece, many readers will have attended some of the numerous functions that were held there. For decades the Church Street hotel was the place to go for dinners, meetings, concerts, celebrations, exhibitions, auctions, discos and even boxing and wrestling bouts. But it had not been the first buildin
Looking Back: When St Helens hospitals stopped selling cigarettes (opens the original)
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FIFTY years ago the announcement was made that hospitals in St Helens would stop selling cigarettes, writes Stephen Wainwright. A Liverpool Area Health Authority spokesman said: "The authority feels that because of the health dangers of smoking we should not approve of smoking by selling cigarettes in hospitals." But the prohibition did not extend to banning their patients from lighting up. Most were still being allowed to smoke – although they would now have to rely on visitors bringing in thei
Looking Back: How St Helens went from toxic Victorian fumes to cleaner air (opens the original)
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NEXT Monday (September 7) is the United Nations International Day For Clean Air, writes Stephen Wainwright. It's hard to imagine how horrible the atmosphere must have been in St Helens 150 or so years ago. The town's rapid industrial expansion during the 19th century that created many jobs came with a hefty price. Hundreds of industrial chimneys belched out fumes, and although not all were then considered harmful – the sulphur effluent of the chemical companies certainly was. The chlorine they p
Looking Back: The 1926 battle outside Ashton's Green Colliery in Parr (opens the original)
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ONE hundred years ago this week, the battle of Ashton's Green Colliery took place, writes Stephen Wainwright. The protagonists were a huge crowd of striking miners and a large body of police. The former were furious that so-called “blacklegs” were working down the mine and the latter were trying to keep order. But in doing so, the officers were stoned by the mob and faced allegations of police brutality. The country's mineworkers had been locked out of their pits since early May 1926 after refus
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