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Moving to Saint Helens?

Today one of Merseyside’s most important commercial towns, Saint Helens was founded on far more bucolic principles. In the sixteenth century, monks started a “chapel of ease” called St Helen’s Chapel at the juncture of the River Mersey and the route to northern Lancashire, as well as between Liverpool and the landlocked Manchester townships. Notably, the chapel contained only “a challis and a lyle bell”. Predominantly arable land, the area was also noted for its large swathes of moss, heath and bog land. The first manmade canal was opened here in 1757. However, the town of St Helens did not exist until the nineteenth century, when land from the townships of Eccleston, Windle, Parr and Sutton was amalgamated to form a new town. By 1860 the population had reached 60,000 and in 1868 Queen Victoria granted a municipal charter.

Around this time, the small scale local coal mining operations boomed into huge collieries, which became the mainstay of the town’s economy. Owing to the coal reserves, the fine Cheshire salt, quality local sand and the transport revolution, St Helens also became a glass and chemical town. It provided large quantities of raw materials to nearby Liverpool. The last colliery was shut in 1992; since then the town has reinvented itself as a retail and communications hub. Concurrently, the council has invested large amounts of money in cultural projects, making the local arts scene one of the more vibrant in the region. Corporation Street Theatre Royal and the Milk Street theatre both have dynamic theatre and music programmes and are always worth investigating when you’re in town. Don’t miss pantomime season, always a treat in this part of the world. The Citadel Arts Centre was voted one of the UK’s top ten jazz venues.

For a commercial town, St Helens ahs a surprising number of attractions. The Catholic Church of St. Anne and Blessed Dominic is a site of pilgrimage for Roman Catholics. The Victorian missionary Blessed Dominic Barberi is buried there. The Gamble Institute was built in memory of David Gamble, first mayor of the town, and is now the town hall. The World of Glass is an astonishing museum, tracing the history of glass production and offering live glass blowing demonstrations as well as extensive galleries of glass art and a look at the world’s first glass cone production unit. Train spotter types will enjoy the North West Museum of Road Transport, which has a collection of buses, classic cars, trucks and fire engines.

High above the M2, Dream is an iconic 20m statue by Jaume Plensa. Sherdley Park is a modern park in Sutton which features a petting zoo and holds a funfair in July, called the St Helens Festival. Not far away, the Haydock Racecourse has some of the best race meetings in the North. Rugby is a big deal in this town: St Helens Rugby League FC have won the Super League five times and the match day experience at their club is second to none.