The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in St Helens, Merseyside*

St Helens, Merseyside Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Pilks Head Offices! Tall and blue!
• bar "beef" X
• that porn shop in town BRILL
• now demolished - Rockware glass when derelict - quality time
• VISIT THE NEW GLASS MUSEUME AT CHALON WAY.HISTORY OF GLASS A FUN DAY OUT FOR ALL SEE HOW GLASS IS MADE .THEY PROVIDE FACILITY'S FOR SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL PARTYS,AND THERE IS A VISITORS CENTRE ,CAFE AND WORKROOMS. .
• MY FAVE BUILDING IS THE TOILETS OUTSIDE OF ST HELENS COLLEGE AS THEY ARE NOW A WILDLIFE SANCTUARY. A BREEDING PLACE FOR SMALL MAMMALS AND BEASTS LIVING WITHIN IDEAL CONDITIONS. tHEY ALSO HAVE A DELIGHTFUL SMELL, AND THEY DONT HAVE THE CRUNCHING TRACING PAPER BOG ROLL ANY MORE.
• Will be the new nexus if it dosent end up like all the other crap clubs in st.helens.
• THE MOTHERSHIP (PIMBLETTS, COLLEGE STREET)
• My Dad's shed. Built it himself you know!
• Nexus is sound..they let too many people in though
• McTuckies
• The Mansion House in Viccy Park! its brill, i used to work there and saw its transformation!
• town hall, its pretty
• I PERSONALY QUITE LIKE THE NELSON TOILETS.THEY ARE SMALL, COMPACT AND VERY COSEY IN WINTER.
• THE ONE AND ONLY PURPLE PIT. PLAZA
• town hall.
• Refection court. It was built to resemble a ship
• that little square one on billinge lump
• What happened to the fountain, the highlight of the week when some yicker bought a bottle of fairy liquid EVERY STAURDAY! NOT A BUILDING BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SNAKE?
• theve all gone
• The old Gas Showrooms Building - does anyone remember the globe which used to sit over the main entrance? The glass globe disappeared years ago but the frame remained for a while - is it still there? Whilst waiting at the entrance to Helena House, I once tried to judge its size by comparison with other objects around - I failed. Pilks old head office (now an apartment building) opposite Safeway Petrol Station. I saw a photo of it inside back in the 50's when my mum worked there - a model of early 20th Century office design.
• probably boundary baths
• My Mum and Dad's house in Sutton, the ONLY place to live in St Helens Sherdley High School, 'cus we were the first year to go there!
• Hallowed turf of Knowsley Road - alas it is to be no more...
• TANFASTIC TANNING SALON
• The Royal Alfred
• The alley behind Natwest bank.
• Sutton C of E Primary School - before they knocked it down and built the modern one - btw - anyone got any pics of the old building??
• The Nelson pub, the architecture is really good.
• Tower College in Rainhill is nice ( early StHelens )
• The Co-Op, now sadly Wilkinsons stands in its place. My mum and Dad met at the Co-Op, the classic 1950's Dance venue.
• St Thomas Square now that it has been demolished.
• Crematorium. and the well in the cemetary. Not to forget the 14th century ruin also in the cemetary. Mushrooms are there.
• The best building in St Helens is Knowsley Road, the home ground of St Helens rugby league club. The club was one of the founder members of the Northern Union (i.e. the breakaway from Rugby Union) and contested the first ever rugby league Challenge Cup Final. Similarly, the club were the first team to win Super League and also contested the first ever World Club Challenge. A historic organisation.
• I like the Pilks head office on Prescot Road.I Like the old cafe in Victoria Park which looks like a stately home.I Think Nexus is a good building and i also like the Chalon Court Hotel inside.I wish we still had the FLEECE pub, I was very young when it got demolished but that was my first pub i went in as a teenager and I really like it.Taylor Park Duck pond and the long walk around it.
• Gone! covered market wrought ironwork, industrial redbrick CO-OP and old Pilks offices, HALF the Woolworths M&S frontage, the elementary school by Beechams.... You name it, the council will approve demolition and give planning permission for a car park, concrete bunker or rubble garden instead.
• groovy 60's baby clinic near Asda
• St Helens College - new part with the old Beechams clock.
• The Old Cowley School on Cowley Hill - before it was torched.
• Quaker Meeting House - the only really picturesque building in St Helens in terms of architecture.
• Knowsley Road 'Stadium' - home of the Saints RLFC

Demolish It Now Building

• Crystals.
• THE JOB CENTRE AND CONVEINIENTLY ATTACHED ARMY RECRUTEMENT CENTRE ON COLLEGE STREET AND JUST ANY BUILDINGS IN A 100 M RADIUS
• Nexus its shite, and fuck nexus2 off. Make it a Plaza2 instead.
• crystals - give up and start somewhere else. chain lane community centre - did u not get the hint the 1st time it got torched ?? its an eyesore!
• NEXUS with all the bouncers in it
• Chicago Rock, please get rid of this eyesore and the losers that go in there on a Friday/Saturday night.
• The whole of the middle section of Church Street - shockingly bad sixties/seventies architecture.
• Nexus, Chicago Rock, Yates, Bar X, Deli bar, etc. They are all shite.
• ALL OF SINT HELLINS (HOB GOBLIN LAND) RESIDENTS INCLUDED.
• all of them i personally burnt down robins lane high school really
• LINCOLN HOUSE! HOME OF ALL THE SKIVING HOUSING BENEFIT ENQURY OFFICERS WHO TAKE APPROX TEN YEARS TO PROCESS YOUR CLAIM AND THEN GO AND LOSE IT AND BLAME SOMEONE ELSE
• ANFAILED ARMS.TOTAL EMBARASSMENT.
• Dave's Furniture warehouse in Hardshaw Street
• 8 ball cafe
• The new market, badly designed, shockingly high rents
• Bullion Bar
• That scary old factory. You know. The one with the yellow gate things. If you carry on down the path along the brook after St. Cuthberts high school. All the glue sniffers hang out there. I went there as a kid.
• not a building....but Parr... why does this area deserve to be called in the borough of st helens?? :( CJ
• West Park High, Windleshaw school...oh they have. Good
• The Sefton when the dirty scouse bastard derby is on. I hate the fuckers.
• Anywhere where scallys hang out
• the one that used to be Pimbletts in Westfield Street
• srarcens head pub , in clinkhamwood. its a shit hole and full of shit.
• I WOULD BE TELLING AN UNTRUTH IF I INSINUATED THAT I WOULD LIKE TO DEMOLISH ANY OF THE BUILDINGS. I WILL PERSONALLY ENSURE THAT MY FAVORITE BAR X WILL BE ERECT UNTIL DEATH DO US PART.HOWEVER THE THOUGHT OF THE SPICY RAT BEING ERECT ANY LONGER MAKES ME FEEL LIKE DEMOLISHING IT MYSELF WITH MY HEAD.
• NEXUS ITS SHITE
• knowsley road and anything to do wiv saints
• any in parr , bag head city
• Busby's its full of cr*p
• the new cinema before hollywood takes over
• what everyone wants should be flattened its everthing which is wrong with this town and wilko's
• Virtually everything built since 1975.
• The whole town, and start again.
• LIDL food store(opposite asda) the Transport mueseum The saracens head kwik save
• Glassmakers Arms sutton.
• Pilks Offices.
• Kwik Save on Boundary Road (I had a summer job there and hated it)
• Cowley High NOW!!
• COSTCO!!!!!! For pulling the wool over the Chambers eyes, and raising the expectations of the gullible unemployed St. Heleners!!!
• Will somebody PLEASE get rid of Boundary Road baths?
• Crystals! should have been nuked when the first brick was layed!
• sundeck
• The Multi story next to Safeway, Century house, all the stupid road works! like the traffic calming stuff on gaskell street. Only St Helens council who have invested Millions of UN pounds on the new link road system would then spend further tonnes of cash putting Deliberate obstacles and those stupid road ramps on perfectly streight roads. The 22 bus has allot of difficulty getting around the bend onto Gaskell street, if a car is parked accross the road .. it's buggered. Also at the back of gaskell street is an industrial estate!, I hope they dont want artics around there cos an `estate' is about as big a vehicle that could get around that bent LOL.
• clock face
• Rainford High - especially the gigantic cardboard box AKA the new block
• Crystals and Martines.
• In best St Helens style, nothing really puts its head over the parapet.
• Asda carpark is a nitemare especially when it is busy.Thatto Heath Park!!Full of hooligans not even nice to walk in or take children.That awful lump in the middle of a roundabout near the council offices, i mean what is it?
• St Helens Junction station
• The whole town, and start again from scratch
• The savoy cinema, which has been derelict for some years
• The Plaza!!!!!
• Wilkinsons and all 28 bingo halls
• Crystals nightclub. Yuk!
• Century House
• The Tax office!
• Chalon Way multistorey car park. What on earth was going on in the minds of those Architects when this construction was conceived??
• That tower block near Victoria Square - Century House?
• Central Station - Disgusting Yellow colour.

The Best Things

• i'm living down south at the moment so i can tell you a million positive things about st helens: taxis - u never have to wait and they are really cheap. pizza's are nicer and about half the price, people are more friendly, nightlife is better and u can get pissed on 20 quid not £200 and u dont have to be on 40k a year to buy a house - that makes me sound really tight, but trust me its all true
• scousers still aren't welcome keep up the good work st.helens boys and gals
• The A570 which leads to the M62 and Liverpool.
• ANY ROAD OUT. After living in St H for over 25 years I took the big step away - how I wish I had taken it earlier. Looking back, I can see the town is full of narrow minded in bred people who cannot see beyond the East Lancs/M62 boundaries. I remember feeling very left out at school because I wasn't actually related to someone else there! People are born there, live there, work there, go out there, die there - very sad. There is more to life, St Helens!!
• they;re all crazy in StHelens they call mice moggies for gods sake!And eat splits instead of chips and peas.
• Near to a decent town like Wigan.
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• NO ONE EATS PIES LIKE EM. GOOD TO SHOW TO VISITORS FOR A LAUGH. ST HELL INS WON THE GOD DAMN STUPID/UGLY/GORMLESS AWARD 25 YEARS IN A ROW KEEP IT UP GUYS.
• St Helens host's its own car boot sale held in chalon way multi storie car park'hail rain or shine every sunday morning 100's of cars line the ringway road.So come along if you have to get rid of all those unwanted gifts in your attick or maybe you are looking for a bargain.I am sure there is something for everyone from mums and dads to the children ,the sellers arrive at four thirty am in the morning,but the official opening time is six thirty am.People come from far and wide as you are guaranteed to be undercover ,so dont worry about the weather ,just get there early and make it a fun day out for all.
• TOUR DES BIERES NEXUS MICHELOB IN PUBS BIRCHALLS PIES FOODS OF THE WORLD ATTRACTIVE INTELLIGENT WOMEN UP TO SIX FORM LEGENDARY CAINERS - GENIE , ROCK , TEMPLE NEW PUBS SPRINGING UP ALL THE TIME.
• sTANLEY BANK WOODS, DOWN SANKEY VALLEY NEAR CARMEL DAM, HOME TO MANY A GUITAR PLAYING DOLEY BUIT STILL A BEAUTIFUL PLACE AS YET UNTOUCHED BY SMACKHEADS AND THERE NEEDLES
• Bears Paw gravy and Lievsley's pies
• ST HELENS RUGBY TEAM AND TIM JONKERS!!!!!!!!!!
• no problem gettin a bird to come home with ya, and cause its a small town if your payin for the taxi it wont cost much, sweet
• The people,the new pubs that are springing up everywhere.
• POISONED ELECTRIK HEAD, KRATCHETT FAMILY, CITADEL, THE ALF, SHERDLEY SHOW, NIK NAYLORS, OOBY DOO, MCTUCKYS HUT, THE PASSAGE TO INDIA, PIMBLETTS
• Birchalls Pies, way better than Pimmy's. Saints. Cheap Beer. At last there are more than just white faces in the town. Remembering meeting Norman Cook(Fat Boy Slim) at a party in Eccleston. Seeing the Housemartins at the Black Bull. The bus to Liverpool. Confusing Southeners by saying "I'm oft th'offy f't get toffys".
• The gassometer or whatever the fuck it is. You know that great big grey thing on Peasley Cross. Our Eiffel Tower that u know...
• i found the Snake..last chritmas morning i was walking past the battered wives home in Newton-le-willows when it was there right infront of my eyes ok it was covered in piss off the younger generation..Get it back in the Hardshaw centre where it belongs.. the Purple pit when your totally shit-faced coz it's actually alright then.. all the new stuff were getting...we'll never have to que at a bar again there's gonna be more pub's than people...
• rugby team
• Everyone ! The nights when Saints have won and although everone hates living here its as good as anywhere and its as bad as a lot of places.But we love it!
• Bargain Booze, the Glass Museum, and hopefully the new cinema, i even have a fondness for Buzbys - esp for taking my out of town mates to!
• CLUBBING IT and the world champions of course!
• Not living there anymore
• The way Siants have trounced everyone since Super League began
• library, parks, carrmill dam,
• ROBBING A PURSE FROM A FAT TOWNIE WHO IS ATTEMPTING TO DANCE IN THE PLAZA
• at the end of the day we have the greatest rugby leauge club in the world and i have friends in the u.s, south africa and australia and whenever i visit i end up drinking from glasses made by pilks. no one ever said this town was anything more than an industrial site but its doing pretty well considering!!
• the bmx scene is getting bigger and better and it's about time.
• Bartons Dandelion & Burdock, and Picalilli. Livesleys Hotpots. Pimmies Steak. Kebabs from Haydock chippy.
• The old Fleece Hotel in the 70's
• Having a tablrt on a friday night
• tanyas cafe on station yard
• Pimletts pies
• I would like to say to the ignorrant bitch who left a disgusting message about John Howden and friends that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. I have known John for 19 years and I can tell you that he is the last person in the world who would do something like that. Maybe if you knew the facts you would be a little less hasty to start putting your self opinionated views across. You would also realise that the girl in questions case is very thin and it would seem that the whole thing was totally fabricated. All I can say is thankgod to have moved from St.Helens. The town is a much better place without the likes of you. So do one and please never ever come back to St.Helens, you stupid, pig headed, snotty, little bitch.
• Despite what some may think, St Helens is an independent town with its own dialect (not scouse!), sports teams, history and even food (splits and pimbletts pies!). We are not connected with Liverpool thank you very much!!!
• Blue's band The Swamp Stompers. Barry, Barry, Eddie (the barber), and the singer who is a Joe Cocker lookalike.
• carr mill damm cowley high asda the new morrisons Y6 at carr mill(please print this before i leave-7/8 days)
• Now that I live in TELFORD, the M62! Even thou I live in TELFORD people still know where I come from (Best accent EVER), my Salopian Husband still can't understand me
• The people, the pubs, Eccleston, the accent (the best in Britain), and the fact that Scousers are still not welcome after many years of influx. An' they never bloody will be.
• Pimblett and Livesleys pies,the rugby team while it is still at Knowsley Road and you can stand up to watch it
• Saturday Night's getting pissed in the plazza
• No traffic jams during the day. Friendly people. There's an outward migration every morning and a return in the evening. Good Access to the Motorway. World Class in Glass. 3000 empty car parking spaces.
• St Helens is home to the nicest100.000 people in the world believe me
• Beer Town centre on night Saints
• Pimletts pies - never seen any better and I've lived in many places over the last 42 years.
• The people DO make you feel part of the town, and do NOT make people feel like outsiders AS SOME PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY POINTED OUT! This is coming frm an ex Brummie who has lived here for 28 years and wouldn't move for the world!!
• Bosworth field 1993-94 "it was fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun"
• The people, and the clothes the young ladies wear in the very short summer!
• the way its im between loads of great cities n towns ie liverpool warrington manchester
• Pimbletts Steak and kidney pie....Heaven Pimbletts Meat and potatoe pastie... Delicious! Bartons pickles in lacelle st ....Fantastic
• Pimbletts Pies, Sherdelly Show,Taylor Park, Red Rocks, Elephant Hotel, Toasties in the Elephant Pub. only a £1.00..Nexus, Christmas.
• Hamblett school mushrooms/ walking dogs / OLD MA CUXSOM.
• St Helens rugby league club.
• Saints are the only super league team with no silly americaan name.
• Pimblett Pies:Taylor park Lake:Nexus nite Club: Sherdeley Show in July: Birchall Pies: Chipmunk Chipshop:Cindy's niteclub when i was a teenager: Westpark Rugby Club when i was a teenager:Loads of other things will spring to mind when I am thinking, but those things are what I think are the better things about town..
• Sintelinsers put themselves down more than anyone else in the world....
• Pilkington's Glass Museum - hidden beneath the Pilks office tower block, the history of glass, scientific exhibits.
• St Helens is the birthplace of the environmental movement Groundwork (in 1981). From St Helens, there are now over 40 Groundwork Trusts in Britain, and apan, Poland, Belgium, Romania and USA are interested in the idea. But St Helens is where it all started!
• The cool friendly people who revel in freedom of expression fun and parties . They are a small underground group . If you are open-minded and love life they will find you sooner or later
• Eccleston, of course!!
• More amusing place names- Pocket Nook, Fingerpost, Clock Face, Old Whint
• Central Library has really good Internet access for a very reasonably price. Its run by "Connect" and the PC are good quality.
• I moved out of St. Helens two years ago. However, my family and freinds still live there. Every so often I go home with my girlfreind (from London) and she can't understand a word that anyone says. Brilliant!
• The environmental improvements that are taking place in the town centre
• The very short skirts on the very young women in the Plaza.
• Eccleston, just outside St.Helens, has the best video hop eva, FLIX Video !!! It also has the best staff :-)
• The people - we are a strange lot but there isn't a better bunch anywhere.
• It may not be as trendy or hip as warrington but people are friendly, you can drive around without being stuck in three hour tailbacks aka warrington.
• Brilliant place names like Crank, Thatto Heath (aka.Donkey Common a long time ago) Red Rocks.
• Can't believe you haven't mentioned that St Helens has one of (if not the) best angling teams aroung called "Octopus Saints (formerly Team Tubertini)" they have one of the most successful records around having won nearly all the major competitions (No mean feat as angling is the biggest participated sport in Britain, with 4 million plus anglers regularly visiting the bank). Carr Mill dam is the place to fish as it is teaming with fish. Others are Moss Nook (day tickets available) and Sandy Bottoms (permits available).
• Super saints rugby league: super league champions, Challenge cup champions two years running. The brilliant Labour Council (self praise).
• Most famous for its Rugby League club, the mighty "Saints" (who are second to no-one, even the pie eating bastards from Wigan) and its glass industry.
• St Helens has its own atmosphere at night.
• Rugby team is now average with Gibbs and Newlove at centre.
  St.Helens now possess the best rugby league team in Europe. This is due to the fact that they won the 1996 European Super League and the 1996 Challenge Cup (the double).

The Worst Things

• worst things are the bag heads, the scally's (even tho i used to be one), the complete lack of shops, and that its easy for a bloke to get away with beating the crap out of a girl (SM - u know who u are)
• scousers who were rockport, a la coste striped shite jumper and a shite cap and who also walk like penguins
• The rugby mentality, who gives a f*ck about Saints anyway. The town also has a narrow minded population and a fear of anything 'differant'. The influx of people from Rainhill (plastic scousers) cause there town is even Sh!tter than ours !!
• Inbreeding
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• THE WHOLE AREA, SOME ONE SHOULD JUST BUILD A WALL AROUND IT WITH A SMALL GATE SO SCOUSERS COULD MAKE LOADS OF MONEY BY TAKING SCORES OFJAPANESE TOURISTS TO ST HELENS TWICE A WEEK TO SHOW THEM WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FAMILIES INTERMINGLE (UNHEALILY) WHILST EATING PIES.
• HIGHEST VIAGRA RATE IN THE UK CLINKHAM WOOD IS FULL OF CRACK WHORES AND DIRTY SMACK HEADS
• tHE WORSE THING ABOUT ST HELENS IS TRYING TO FIND YOUR WAY ROUND THERE ROAD SYSTEM IF YOU DONT KNOW THE TOWN I FEEL SORRY FOR VISITORS COMING IN.WHO EVER DID THE PLANS FOR THIS TOWN WASNT THINKING STRAIGHT.CONGESTION OUTSIDE SAFEWAY SUPERMARKET LEADING ON TO THE LINK WAY IS RIDICULIOUS,ALSO OUTSIDE THE TOWN HALL IS BEING MADE INTO A WALKWAY ,DRIVERS JUST RIDE ROUND AND ROUND TRYING TO FIND A WAY OUT.THERE IS QUITE A FEW CAR PARKS BUT ITS NOT CHEEP LIKE MOST TOWNS THERE IS A FREE CAR PARK FOR SHOPPERS NOT HERE.THE CENTRAL BUS STATION ALSO CAUSES CONGESTION ,SO THERE ARE LARGE QUEUE'S IN HALL STREET WITH A TAXI RANK ALSO ADDING TO THE CONGESTION.
• Dickhead boucers
• BRAIN DRAIN BLAME EVERYONE ELSE CULTURE ACCENT LACK OF INVESTMENT JOBS WOMEN IN BREEDING
• The people - "sintelliners" have no identity whatsoever. One minute they're slagging off places like liverpool and the next they're desperately trying to attach themselves to the place to get a bit of of the music, club and sporting culture. Look at all the football tops you see people wearing in the pubs. Fine, just don't wear them to the games - Stay in your ramshackle rotting dump with no history bar one man's corner shop glass business.
• bloody st helens college espesially that freak david glaves
• the way that they knock down lovely old buildings like th co-op. and the fact that st. helens is now full of scousers
• clock face
• PARR, AND THAT STINKY BROOK THING IN PARR THAT SMELLS OF SHITE AND LETS EVERYONE KNOW THAT THEY HAVE ENTERED THE SEWAGE CAPITAL OF ST HELENS.
• TWO WORDS.MERSEYSIDE AND SCOUSE.Back to Lancs please.
• People suckin' up to Saints players and girls who want to hang around them because they think they are stars
• All the dickheads that are riding about now on scooters. Lads, it doesn't matter how much you rev and lower your heads so your nose is touching the handlebars, you still look like pricks and are a danger to the rest of us that actually know how to drive.
• WIGAN RUGBY CLUB, ANDY FARRELL AND BRADFORD RUGBY CLUB
• dress sense, cant understand the whole ralph loren shirt tucked in to the burtons pants with your new rockport on, and a shiney earing for the lads. the birds just look like top shop front window, complete with daft shoes.
• THE NEW MARKET, NO AIR CONDITIONING, BLOODBOILINGLY HOT IN THE SUMMER, BRASS MONKEYS IN THE WINTER, BRING BACK TONTINE.
• Wooly backs who cry that they are in Merseyside
• The influx of the biggest pest since the Cockroach. Yes you guessed THE SCOUSER. Self-pity , Wining phlem driven accent , Workshy , Please go back to the place we constantly are reminded is " so fantastic " and leave us in peace.
• Full of plastic scousers who know nothing about rugby league
• scoucers invadeing our home
• SHEARER ANDERTON MEMORIAL STATUE
• Me and my wife getting stared at, because she's black, and I'm not. Birchalls pies being SOOOOO far away.
• Plastic scousers in Berghaus jackets and socks over tracky pants. I wanna declare a war.
• Change the cd in the plaza you can tell the time by the song thats on... the world of glass, Has anybody actually been there?
• Nobhead scallys
• will the lorry driver that tipped the load of rocks in the centre of the road at the landing please return and uplift them the council will maybe get a refund on the cash they spent on the poor recognition that have given to the miners failing that they should give up office
• clock face!!!
• Living by a bus stop where double decker busses passed, everyone saw you eating your tea, I once offered through the window, a passenger some of my fishfinger
• The outsiders that call St.Helens on the Knowhere board. Get a life you sad bastards.
• Going to Everton away games with a wooly accent
• PARR!!!!!!!!! is it really in st helens??? CJ
• Scousers treating the place like their own scwallid (???) sespits.
• sarried head, and the pinders, the dyers, the worrals the stouts you all know the score.
• THE GENERAL SCRUFFYNESS
• Too many scousers/Vauxhall Novas
• the people. i used to thing all the people where bad but gradually i have found some people who arent bad but on the whole the people are small minded stupid fools. (to be polite.)
• The people - opinionated, disproportionately (look it up) thick, obsessed that scousers are after their precious hick town? GROW UP! Look on the Liverpool site and see how to spell properly. Read your own people's comments and hang your heads in shame. Go back to Lancashire, we don't want ya!
• the people...
• lack of illeagal substances available in the plaza.
• The people. Not all ,but some. Those who call themselves 'sintelliners'. Are you proud of your lazy accent? Most 'sintelliners' have a hatred of others, especially people fron neighboring areas, esp. Wigan and Liverpool. Jealous? 'Sintelliners' need to embrace people from 'outside', otherwise the ongoing incest will shrink the gene pool to smaller than Parr baths baby swimming area.
• Smackheads, scousers and smackhead scousers
• Holts beer in the Red lion Sutton, AAAAARGH
• Waking up every day here
• fat coppers on motorcycles
• Roller discos at Boundry Road baths
• Town in general! the plaza is shit full of faggots who dance on their own in a attemtt to pull a ugly moose NEVER in town have i seen a good looking girl just FAT UGLY SLAPPERS!!!!!!!
• forever invading scuosers
• Too many scousers in St Helens!! Being in Merseyside is the worst thing that ever happened to the town and i would never use the dirty M word in my address. Back to Lancashire please!!! Even Widnes is classed as Cheshire! Why do we have to be in M*****side!!
• windsors
• Knocking areas down and leaving it has open ground, ie Powell Street, Sutton. The open land next to the bowling green in Robin's Lane
• The fact that Tellins is now in M**seyside and not Lancashire. OUT OF MERSEYSIDE NOW.
• The Plaza 'School Disco'. A Recent (final) visit confirmed it to be even more terrible than when it was 'Lowies' in the dim and distant past... Boy racers in knackered Novas (esp. outside Plaza/Lowies). Vandallism. 'Sport' Shops. 'Discount' Shops. VERY conservative (not Conservative) views. Not as good as Warrington or Wigan.
• It's got a road that leads to Wigan.
• Bon Marche, EthelAustins, Whateveryonewants, River island(too expensive!)
• Martine's nightclub!! Idiots who feel they should ruin the environment by dumpimg their rubbish anywhere they like!
• Police taking all are beer.
• The amount of scousers who treat this place like a cat litter tray.
• Billingers......in bread pie eaters the lot of them.
• Greggs and sayers pasties with the now patented `magma' filling. Deceptively warm on the outside but underneath the thick pastry layer is a whole world of mouth blister popping fun for the fool hardy eater. Amazing when you consider the filling is about 1% off the pasty.
• That area near the Landing.. DRUNKEN MEN SAT ON THE BENCHES. Druggies hanging about..
• The pubs and clubs. Poor, very poor.
• Trying to copy Wigan pier.
• Thatto Heath in General, Vandals, Poverty, nothing for the KIDS to do. Thatto Heath Park, Nitemare full of Drunks, Drugs etc. Some pubs in Thatto HEATH are the pits, mentioning no names.Lack of 'classy bars' in St.Helens, I mean we only have two that is the Forum and The Bear and Barrow, they are really nice bars.I do go to the others bars only because that is where, the men who sit on the benches in town and beg for money and drink cider all day long, (near the landings pub).Lack of shops clothes, i always have to go to liverpool to buy something decent.no shoe shops, the council!!
• There's a crack in the path on my front, that I fall over every Saturday, when coming home pissed....
• Morrisons Supermarket in Baxters Lane. It is filthy and the staff are unpleasant.
• Violent racist sexist judgemental ITV viewers . You live your life and leave me alone to live mine , in fact go to Wilkinsons or B&M .
• hideous roundabout statues, and indian looking figures in the middle of a field in Parr, St.Helens.
• The changing of all the roads in teh town centre to bus lanes only - how can I get my car through town.
• Bueracracy of St Helens
• Parr, Fingerpost, generally that area.
• St. Helen's Local Radio Station is based in Wigan!!! 102.4 WISH FM
• The fact that so many people wear awful tracksuits and there are about a million sports shops. Its the origin of the Sport Spice species.
• A feeling of dread when you need to go to a cash machine late at night.
• No cinemas and the abundance of card shops
• The buses. You never know when they are going to turn up.
• Crystals night club!!!
• The Town Centre is too small compared to Wigan and Warrington. No good clubs.
• The worst thing about St Helens is the men! There is a major shortage of good looking, decent men, with at least an eighth of a brain!
• Clubs are average but not good.
• Town is generally down

The Knowhere Guide started out as a list of places to skateboard in the UK. It is a compilation of (unedited) information and views supplied by users like yourself. It is not a conventional tourist guide!

In most cases, the information in each section has been submitted by more than one contributor (the credits at the bottom of the page list some, but not all, of the contributors) and some of it dates back to the 1970s.

We make no claims as to the accuracy of the information in the Guide - our only purpose is to provide a forum for users to share their knowledge and opinions. So please keep a large bag of salt handy and be prepared to read between the lines!

If you disagree with a comment, or information is out of date, please submit an update! The contributors come from all walks of life, and their opinions are bound to be subjective, so if your view isn't represented, please speak up and contribute to the balance of the Guide. See below in the 'Have Your Say' section for how to add your voice.

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Have Your Say...

You can tell us more about St Helens. This is also the method to use if you want to correct some of the information already here. (But please remember you're not mailing the person who actually wrote whatever-it-is.)

You can use the add an event form to tell us about events happening in St Helens.

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Credits

Last updated: 2008-05-15