Interesting Old St.Helens Pictures

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Mossbank Station

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Savoy Picture House – which changed its name from the Bridge Street Picturedrome.

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Edinburgh Cafe, 7 Church Street.

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From a fitter less car polluted time.......

 

This is the Bike Shead at Clock Face Colliery in the 1920's.

[HORT]

WESTFIELD STREET

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Havannah Colliery in Parr.

[Alan]

That colliery photo reminded me what a depressing place St Helens was in the 1940s and 50s. Smoke-ridden and surrounded by waste-heaps, winding gear and factory chimneys

[mally]

that concrete building in BJLs picture was still there for years and was only knocked down in the 80s as I  recall  

[FRANK]

When we were kids, we used to call it the white hospital.

[Parrdog]

I remember playing in it in the late 1950's

[knockaloe]

Edinburgh Cafe, Chelsea Buns 3d, Danish Pastries, Baby Hovis loaf 6d, delicious. (1964 prices!). And the smartest liveried delivery van in St Helens.

[Big_Jeff_Leo]

County Court in East Street.

[halj]

Went into the Court a few times whilst studying at St. Helens Tech. The Magistrate would talk through the cases with us and answer any questions we had.

[Alan]

Ref the Edinburgh cafe pic, it took me back to about 1949, two years before my mum died. She took me there and my memories are of the cafe being upstairs and the waitresses wearing starched white pinnies and hats with black skirts

[Tony J]

@Alan It takes me back to about 1967 and it wasn't much different than 1949. Also my mum had died and we were living with my grandparents and my nana used to take us in for a treat on a Saturday morning. As I get older I don't know how they managed to look after two kids of 6 and 9 when they were in their mid seventies, but they did and I am forever grateful to them.

[Big_Jeff_Leo]

Sutton Monastery

[HORT]

Great picture. Did monks ever  live there?

 

 

[Bert]

Did Sutton Monastery have a garden? (;see Bert's Bill Board).

[Big_Jeff_Leo]

5 hours ago, HORT said:

Great picture. Did monks ever  live there?

Yes throughout its life. In the 1980's we used to walk the dog around the grounds as my Dad knew Brother Leo who had been there for years, he was a bit of a character............always going away on these commune's in places like Denmark and Portugal. 

[Phyll]

14 hours ago, HORT said:

Great picture. Did monks ever  live there?

It was a Monastery from around 1849, then later a Church.

I was Baptised there. (Not in 1849 though!). 

Here's some info...

St Anne's RC Church Sutton, St Helens

WWW.SUTTONBEAUTY.ORG.UK

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History of St. Annes RC Church in Sutton, St.Helens, including Dominic Barberi, Ignatius Spencer and Elizabeth Prout

And...

Taking Stock - Catholic Churches of England and Wales

TAKING-STOCK.ORG.UK

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The present church is a modern design and build structure of limited architectural interest.

 

[Bert]

Bodmin, in Cornwall, is a corruption of "The abode of monks". We have loads of Saints, you could say the Cornish are Saints' supporters. There will be one more (saint) when I pop my clogs. Saint Bert sounds about right to me.

Edited October 26 by Bert
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[HORT]

How many Monks lived in the monastry in Sutton?

 

[Big_Jeff_Leo]

Dr. Goss, the Bishop of Liverpool, who had consecrated St. Anne’s in 1853, visited the church every three years and so was able to see for himself how its congregation was expanding. During his visit in August 1871, the bishop administered confirmation to almost 200 persons. The community at the retreat was also growing and by 1879 consisted of nine priests, eight lay brothers and four clerical brothers. Six years later a newspaper article stated that there were 26 religious clerics and 14 students resident at the Sutton Monastery.