I have recentley started looking into a number of relatives involved in the mining industry. Probably most of you will be aware of the following books but I have found them so useful and well worth every penny.  Mining Memories by Geoff Simm and Ian Winstanley, the other Tracing Your Coalmining Ancesters.

Anyone know where this was located? I can't access the St Helens street names database - keeps telling me to log in even though I am logged in.

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Does anyone know where Garden St was or is. Please

RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. In addition, 767 survived. There is a memorial to one of those who died, on a gravestone in Windleshaw Chantry. This is shown below. I wondered if anyone knows if any other St Helens people were on board and if they perished or survived? h ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles off the southern c

Does anyone know about Tommy Garrity's murder, I think it was down Parr in 1972. Tommy was my Great uncle, as I am doing my family tree I would like to know what happend to him. Hope you can help Thank you for reading

Cookie store announces it is closing in St Helens 'with a heavy heart' WWW.STHELENSSTAR.CO.UK A COOKIES store has announced "with a heavy heart" that it has closed its St Helens premises. That is a shame.  My little girl loved getting Cookies from there. 

Finding various family members are involved one way and another within the early Non Conformist movement . The Genealogist seems to lean towards uk records and hold a fair amount of non conformist records . Has anyone used the site and if so how have they found it.