St. Helens, Merseyside

Saint_Chris

I went to town today, and actually looked around, and there are some lovely old buildings, the ones above clarks shoes, and down by the yorkshire bank as so pretty.
The tontine market is well square and bland, and they should have kept the fountain infront of the church, (nowhere to put my fairy liquid now. lol)

I don't look at town as being deprived, it's just town to me, for big shops i just go to liverpool, i guess most people who lives in small towns go out of town sometimes. Times are hard, and large shops have gone bust, we have our characters who we love, jonnie wellies. x

For me it's just home and has been for 46 years, i love where i live, i like my neighbours, we have a lovely community centre, and local corner shop, but at night, after work, come home, shut my door and to be honest i don't know what happens outside of my door.
We've touch wood never been burgled, or have my family, and had no vandalism.

i avoid westfield st for a drink, i'm to old, but love duke st on the odd saturday night, the new turkish on duke st is lovely, and i believe the new larkins restaurant is nice.

It's just home. x

Saint_Chris, I wouldn't go for the house in Greenbank unless you know the area
has improved a great deal. It used to be a really rough area, but that was when
St. Thomas Square was round the corner.

It's changed now, it's just a square of council houses with a grass play area in front, and it's alright, there's no houses on liverpool road now, and never heard of any trouble from the flats on glover st. St Thomas square, my f-i-l lived here before the young took over, many happy times on here. x

the glass and transport museum are both interesting, still take the grand-kids up to pilks head office to feed the fish and run up the steps.

kingfisherblue

artichoke wrote: »

and ST H still has a theatre - i went at Christmas to see the panto - great fun, and exactlyt the same inside the Theatre Royal as 40 years ago

Two theatres - the Theatre Royal and the more trendy Citadel, behind Tyrers. Pantos are usually great at both, but we didn't get to see any this year.

We still have weekly bin collections as well, whereas I believe that some towns are on fortnightly collections. Green bin collections are fortnightly, but again, better than some towns as collections are made in winter as well as summer. Not everywhere has green bin collections in winter, but ours takes household cardboard, including food packaging, as well as grass cuttings. Recycling is fortnightly and includes clothes as well as the usual bottles, tins, paper and plastics.

And our rubbish tips are beautifully clean and organised :rotfl:

kingfisherblue

Saint_Chris wrote: »

I went to town today, and actually looked around, and there are some lovely old buildings, the ones above clarks shoes, and down by the yorkshire bank as so pretty.
The tontine market is well square and bland, and they should have kept the fountain infront of the church, (nowhere to put my fairy liquid now. lol)

I don't look at town as being deprived, it's just town to me, for big shops i just go to liverpool, i guess most people who lives in small towns go out of town sometimes. Times are hard, and large shops have gone bust, we have our characters who we love, jonnie wellies. x

For me it's just home and has been for 46 years, i love where i live, i like my neighbours, we have a lovely community centre, and local corner shop, but at night, after work, come home, shut my door and to be honest i don't know what happens outside of my door.
We've touch wood never been burgled, or have my family, and had no vandalism.

i avoid westfield st for a drink, i'm to old, but love duke st on the odd saturday night, the new turkish on duke st is lovely, and i believe the new larkins restaurant is nice.

It's just home. x

I couldn't agree more.

Can I ask which is your local community centre Chris?

sophieschoice

Is the upstairs cafe (entrance next door to what used to be Woolies) still there?

I don't know if I've uploaded this properly but here goes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb7mYJnJ5f8

sophieschoice

and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyAHUZr5JGE

kingfisherblue

Fair enough about Greenbank Chris. I've only been to the Post Office in that area in recent years. And I have to agree about our local architecture. Some of it is really lovely, but you do have to look upwards!

Sophie, I'm on my son's iPad and couldn't watch the video as it wouldn't load, so I'll watch it on the computer tomorrow. The cafe was up some very steep stairs, next to MacDonalds, if we're talking about the same one. It had a couple of rooms made into one larger room. I'll ask my mum if it is still there, as she gets Into town more often than I do.

Saint_Chris

Can I ask which is your local community centre Chris?

I'm sure that cafe isn't open now, but i do remember it, as did i do the one in westfield st, above the cake shop opposit burchalls..mmmm.

Saint_Chris

I don't know if I've uploaded this properly but here goes

this worked the other one stalled, some good memories, the old house at the side of boundary road baths, the old market at the side of beechams. Been discussed to death on st helens back in the day, how the old town was lovely, then came the square 70's look.

thanks

kingfisherblue

I'm not familiar with that centre, Chris. I know a few of the others though.

Burchalls pies....... Definitely mmmmmm. Not many places have queues outside for their pies. I don't remember a cake shop opposite, though. There's a pub on the other side of the road, and Jaymax used to be where Cash Converters is. There used to be a fruit and veg shop along from the pub. I bought satsumas there most days when I was pregnant - I had a proper craving for satsumas and my workmates used to tease me that my baby would be orange :rotfl:

ETA, I've just remembered, the cafe was Eversons! My mum used to take us in there for an orange juice and a cake sometimes. It was in the same block as the fruit shop, but it closed down long before th fruit shop did. There was a waitress with very curly hair. Gosh, that was some years ago. I thinks closed in the early 80s. The fruit shop didn't shut down until much later, when the block was bought up for redevelopment. That would have been the early to mid 90s.

Saint_Chris

was the fruit n veg shop called owens......much better than star value.

Still que for pies on a morning.

going well off topic sorry op. x