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As a Warrington boy I thoroughly enjoyed your write up of Warrington - and having never actually been to St Helens I'm now suitably inspired to do so, at least for the glass museum. Thanks for visiting the more mediocre parts of the North West!
Ted | 13.10.25 - 7:15 a.m. | #
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What have I missed - I'm still not sure why the sub-headings are not capitalised?
Al | 13.10.25 - 7:59 a.m. | #
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Ah - here is Sankey Brook. Shame about the transport museum, there is an interesting collection of buses there, it seems (having just spent some time on their website).
Steve | 13.10.25 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Why does the Johnny Vegas sculpture remind me of a pissoir
Caroline | 13.10.25 - 8:58 a.m. | #
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I've really enjoyed this year's forays to towns that tend to be overlooked, and today's post is no exception. I'd be intrigued to know if any contrast in "feel" was noticed between Warrington and St Helens, as was highlighted in the case of Mansfield and Chesterfield.
cau1khead | 13.10.25 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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Chesterfield > Warrington > St Helens > Mansfield
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.10.25 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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WOW - an actual independent butchers shop with the strip things at the entrance, used to have three within 5 minutes walk - all long gone, the loss of the sausages from 2 of them much missed.
Still Anon | 13.10.25 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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Fascinating, absolutely reading about places like these. I spent about half an hour in St Helens between trains in the mid-1990s and my first impressions were that it was utterly depressing. Sounds like, despite everything, things might have improved a bit.
Dominic H | 13.10.25 - 11:01 a.m. | #
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One of my earliest museum memories (decades ago) was visiting the impressive glass museum at Corning, NY in the USA (Corning being major international competitor to Pilkington). The impressive entrance display at that museum is a failed attempt to cast the novel borosilicate (proper Pyrex) glass mirror for the 200 inch Hale telescope in 1934 (success on the second attempt)
Beecham's products are now made and sold by Haleon (demerged consumer division of GSK); the sort of company that ends their adverts with a trademarked sound.
MilesT | 13.10.25 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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St Helens was one of the big beneficiaries of the 2010- present North West Electrification program, having both of the railway lines through the town and South of the town electrified. A very impressive scheme for connecting towns to Manchester and Liverpool in general, and made the most of the pre-existing West Coast Mainline electrification.
Morden Man | 13.10.25 - 12:24 p.m. | #
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GSK, incorporating:
* Glaxo (New Zealand)
** Allen & Hanburys (London)
** (Burroughs) Wellcome (Americans in London))
* Smith, Kline (US)
** French, Richard (US)
** Beckman (US)
** Allergan (US)
** Beecham (St Helens)
Andrew | 13.10.25 - 1:13 p.m. | #
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Thank you. the "tall brick cone" is of course a recreation or a re-use of a kiln, I thought it was worth mentioning.
dg writes: a recreation
Blar Gazon | 13.10.25 - 1:50 p.m. | #
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St Helens couldn't have been playing RL in 1873 as the break between codes only happened in 1895
Liverpool's women team have also played majority of their home games there since 2024
Paul | 13.10.25 - 2:16 p.m. | #
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