St Helens bus station - Bickerstaffe Street, St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK, WA10 1DH
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Tony Smith / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5328 x 3348 px | 45.1 x 28.3 cm | 17.8 x 11.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
4 July 2023Location:
Bickerstaffe Street, St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK, WA10 1DHMore information:
St Helens is a large town in Merseyside, England. It is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of St Helens which covers a larger area around the town. The town had a population of 102, 629 at the 2011 Census, the wider borough around 183, 200 at the 2021 Census. It is 6 miles (10 kilometres) north of the River Mersey, in the south-west part of historic Lancashire. The town was formerly within the historic county's ancient hundred of West Derby as a small settlement in the township of Windle. By the mid 1700s, it had become larger than Windle and (by 1838) it was formally made responsible for the administration of Windle and the three other townships of Eccleston, Parr and Sutton. In 1868, it was incorporated as a town with a municipal borough. The borough later became a county borough in 1887 and replaced by a metropolitan borough with an expanded administrative responsibility for nearby towns and villages in 1974. Coal mining and glassmaking were the significant sectors that caused growth into a town during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Glass producer Pilkington is the town's only remaining large industrial employer; previously, it was home to Beechams, the Gamble Alkali Works, Ravenhead glass. United Glass Bottles, Triplex, Daglish Foundry They were also other sectors: sail making and other cotton and linen work which lasted until the mid-19th century; brewing (Greenall's brewery); copper smelting as well as pits for salt, lime and alkali extraction