The Best Things in St Helens, Merseyside*

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• The old Bargain Booze slogan - 'Making Life Richer for the Poorer', sadly politically correctivised for our modern times.
• pussy
• I for one are proud of the fact i come from from St Helens, beautiful town lovely friendly people, I never forget my home town even though i live abroad st thelens will alway's be in my heart, come on St Helens folk stick up for your town dont condem it!!!!
• St Helens RLFC
• Bungoff in Parr Press nr Cromdale grove or foot ball on the Bonk Cromdale grove
• ST HELENS RUGBY CLUB AND GETTING A BUS TO WORK OUT OF ST HELENS EVERY DAY
• Am from St Helens and moved away nearly 10 Yrs ago. I miss the Star and Reporter so much... Whenever am at mums, I tune in by reading them both! Hi Ian Ratcliffe...Cowley. Got your email. Glad you are happy. Mum and Dad want to see you x keep in touch x
• The eco-friendly busses are small yellow battery-powered busses which do 20 miles per hour, 10 if you go up Boundary Road and 5 if you have to stop for huge speed bumps in Dunrinding Lane.
• freindly people of st helens, you can go to a market stall or local butchers and have a really nice experiance, you feel looked after and they welcome your buisness
• CRYSTALS is class nite out as is the Bullion and nexus!! the boncers are actually quite nice,pimies pices are fit! Saints are boss! : ) im from St Helens and very proud ov it thankyou! and the ppl who claim 2 b from Liverpool just need fuck off and go back cuz there town aint tha classy either and not everyone in thatto heath r drugies smack heads or muggers cheeky fucks we just like to av a gud time and i can say 4 defo tha all the gurls aint slags
• gettin laid outside saints ground (the last ticket door near the allotments)
• IT WAS THE PLAZA TILL IT SHUT
• st.helens r.l.f.c. the hore house under the bridge at the trian station and pimbletts pie shops
• Johnny wellie
• Johnny wellie
• Johnny wellie
• wearin ur saints top round town n seein loads of other peeps wearin thiers n gettin that uncontrolable grin coz ur proud to be a wollyback!! ;-D
• Attitude to do their best in the young people of the town
• RUGBY LEAGUE! We have the BEST team. We also have great pie-shops even though we aint known as pie-eaters. Perhaps our pie shops serve to show the Pie-Eaters how what they should be aiming for.
• BEING BORN IN ST.HELENS,LANCASHIRE.
• its a nice sized town with ok shops etc
• The mighty Saints! Clock Face Good community Spirit.Everybody knows everybody.
• some of the shops
• birchall's pies.mmmmmmm
• st.helens people.
• clockface an four acre!
• MY COCK
• CLOCKFACE CREW YELLOW AND BLUE!
• The Music Scene is quite lively.
• The drugs.
• Busby's on a Saturday night; pint of Chesnut Mild in one hand, 16yr old bird on the other
• The rugby team, most of the time!
• Cottoms hot pots
• the gerrard, the hatred of scousers, and wiganers, the love of rugby league, pimmies pies
• the good music they play in most bars
• The friendly clean streets filled with generous and lovable thieves, villains and a holes!
• Sitting in Chloe's bar, eating your lunch, watching all the moron's walking by in odd shoes. Reminds me of the league of gentlemen!!!!!!!!!
• the awesome people we always manage to find. the fact we know so many awesome people now is just the best..
• Largest glass manufacturer in the world (pilkingtons),the worlds first Pharmaceutical factory (Beechams), The Rainhill Trials (Stevenson's Rocket), St. Helens RUFC, Haydock Park Racecourse, Pimbletts Pies (I'm sorry but they really are THAT good!), Taylor Park, The St. Helens Show, The old music scene in the 1980's (Alfred, black bull, lamb, andertons!!) and Johnny Vegas.
• ALL OF IT!!!!!!!!!!
• shopping,dancing and chocolate plus men
• DR,ZHIVAGO.THIRD MAN.SUMMER HOLIDAY,THE CRUEL SEA.HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY.THE RELEIF OF MAFEKING.THE LAST ALL CLEAR.
• IN MY LIFE IS TO SLEEP WITHOUT SOMEBODY KICKING THE DOOR DOWN.IF ONLY I COULD SWIM AGAIN,FOR SMOKE I CANNOT,IF I HAD TEETH A GOOD FEED(THANK YOU CLATTERBRIDGE.)
• THE HOPE THAT CAME IN 1945 V-J DAY IN 1945.MY NECK TRACHEO NOT GETTING BLOCKED,SO I CAN INHALE FRESH AIR,SUMMER @65-75 DEGREES,NOT TOO HOT,NOT TO COLD.CAM.BALMY DAYS AND CLEARSKYS AT NIGHT,ALL GOOD THINGS MUST BE RIGHT.LIKE ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL.COMFORTABLE BED,FOOD THAT I CAN DIGEST,WOMAN THAT DONT NAG,YES CHAS AND DAVE THESE MUST BE THINGS THAT I LIKE.GOOD OLD BRITISH MADE SHEFFIEL STAINLESS STEEL,THE CARS,MOTOR CYCLES ARIEL,BANTAM,CALTHORPE,DOUGLAS.D.O.T.EXCELSIOR.FRANCES BARNETT,GREEVES,JAMES.NORTON,TRIUMPH.MATCHLESS ARE JUST A FEW,MADE IN REDDITCH ROYAL ENFIELD WE WAS ROBBED DESTROYED BY INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE OF THE SUPER POWERS,COMPENSATION MUST NOW BE GIVEN TO US ON THIS SCEPTRED ISL;ANDS THIS SOMES UP SOME OF THE BEST AND THE WORST SINCE 1933
• Not being a scouser. Having a great rugby team. Pimbletts pies.
• the road to wigan.
• Best thing....... Well lets be honest its home not lived there for 9 years now went to Uni and never came back manage to get about 1 or 2 nights out a year there. The girls are lovely the booze is cheap, the clubs cost peanuts to get in and pizzas are cheap too. And still people meet in the burtons doorway CLASS.
• taking the road out of st helens.
• Bartons pickles, Saints, Vicky Park and The bus Museum.
• louise glover looks fantastic in the new tv ad for zoo magazine. this is a model with alot of potential, i met louise once and she bought me a drink and talked about her travels and i found her to be the nicest person ive ever met...well done louise glover from st.helens.you should check out her website its amazing www.louiseglover.com
• Old blokes who still call everyone 'COCKER'.
• Watchin' a robbed car rip into Taylor park, up past the cafe, down the big hill, down the steps, past the swings while being pursued by two pig cars. (driven by Cabbage)
• Some of the band nights, cheap pool tables and beer
• ME ME ME ME o and that sweet stall on the market near the butchers 400g ov mix n match sweets a quid can u get any betta? xkt
• Clock Face pre 1970
• ASDA and Woolworths are good if you want a video. Very cheap. Nice videos for about eleven quid.
• Its home
• Windle, were the days are spent sipping champagne and consuming caviar, ahh how the better half live
• DRINKIN CARBON WHITE CIDER FROM NEWS N WINES IN HAYDOCK. OVA ICELAND GETTIN P!SSED, N THAT
• THE CAFE IN ASDA THEY DO A GREAT BREKIE FOR £2
• The roads out.
• I grew up in St Helens. But I'm not from there originally. That way, I don't see the place thru Rose tinted specs. I love my mates from there, and I love the experience I had of growing up there. BUT, I'm glad I left. There's more to life than Lowies/ Plaza/ Nexus, Saints, endless pints of shite lager and Regal King Size. Life ain't been no bed of roses since I've left. But I'm glad I went off and did something different, and I'll always enjoy my trips "back 'ome"
• My MUm lives there
• A SUNNY WARM DAY AT BILLINGE TOP OF SHALEY BROW OR,SAILING ON CARR MILL DAM TO BE ABLE TO TURN BACK TIME 50 YEARS AND HAVE ALL THAT WAS TAKEN AWAAY YES 1953 THAT WAS A GOOD YEAR,EVEN THOUGH IT WAS HARD
• BUZBYS!!!!...........but dont go in unless uve got an AK47
• the night life and THATTO HEATH CRUSADERS
• DIRTY GURTYS ON ELEPHANT LANE
• The fact that the rumours about slags existing in st helens are true.if only the bouncers wud let me in instead of pinching me.i am 18 as well and that 23 yr old with 2 kids was there an i know she is a ride, a free ride at that provided u dont get her pregnant.
• its pretty cheap!
• luke benyon, when he fights with bouncers at the assembly and kicks their head in!
• Pay day was the small brown envolope with real money in it. No cheques, no direct deposits and no credit cards (those damn things hurt)
• The cinema, the theatre, pubs, clubs
• chain lane park, the place we all seem to end up for some strange reason.
• Pizza Hut
• ME AND U
• getting in fights wiv scousers and winning(often)
• Real St Helens People are the salt of the earth. Most people of Lancashire are of the same mode. (note I dont mention the M word- Murkyside, one of the most stupid ideas after Belgium.
• blow jobs from the gate, chain lane
• The friendly, welcoming people.
• living here all your life, like it or not u grow to love the place, just walkin round town in the day u see about 25 people u know, and at night u say hiya to every other person coz u just know everybody. As they all say - THERES NO PLACE LIKE HOME. (also the nightlife is amazin, compared to 5/6 years ago its like liverpool nowadays!)
• Thatto Heath is full of Bobbers on a weekend
• There aren't many
• getting your dick sucked by a certain girl who drinks in the gate - mmmmmmmmmmmmm - you know who you are! and you know what youre doing (not the parr slag from behind the bar)
• nice lads that walk you home even though they dont wanna shag you. walking through sankey valley on a hot day with a sexy male when you know hes horny too!
• best blow-job --- girl who worked behind the bar in the gate ---wont mention her name coz i wont get another if i do!
• BEST THINGS: CANT THINK OF NE
• PARR, CRYSTALS, JOKERS, SAINTS RUGBY TEAM,
• the fine young fillies that frequent bar x and other bars in the area!
• Escaping as long ago as 1974, to never ending never never of Australia, it's quite a contrast. You could ramble all over St H, safely. There's so much barbed wire surrounding so much space here. My kids haven't had the elbow room that we had. Taylor Park Little Lake is woth a big quid. Besides boats and paddling, screwing blades on hob nailed boots to ice skate, no worries. Building sledges, when it snowed, getting air over the band stand. The train to the dreaded 'pool and the steamers, to Llandudno, Isle of Man and even New Brighton. Thanks St H. I owe you.
• birds
• Generally friendly people on the whole
• 90% of my friends and family live here. It's a shithole but it's MY shithole.
• Pimbletts
• Home of 'Glass', formerly home of Chemics and a major Wool Producer (until we realised the chemicals damaged the wool and they shipped themselves to Widnes and Runcorn who both smell of pee now because of it). St.Helens RLFC is of course our pride and joy, but our footie club has claimed the FA Vase in the past 10 years at some point (I touched it once too if that counts for anything). Pilks is the biggest employer by a country mile and Beechams used to be there, but left as soon as we built the Link Road Escape Route. Formerly we used to have the biggest Glassware producer (Ravenhead) who were incidentally screwed over by the Belgian company Durobor and whose workers lost their pension in an embezzlement. Currently under investigation, they were asset stripped whilst the government did nothing. Our series of canals and stuff used to be legendary, but are now merely short strips of nothing. Bloody Wiganers rub their Pier in our faces all the time - but it was us who had them first - same with Railways (The Rocket ran right out of Rainhill and you can stand on the Rocket Bridge free of charge and look like a complete nonce - like I did for my GCSE's). There's a lot of heritage in St.Helens. We just build over the top of it.
• The girls are better looking when they are mature enuf to buy there own round of drinks and not use us for a free beer but you think we would of learned after a million years even EVE ripped us of with an apple
• Macdonalds...nothing more2 say!!!!!!!! thanx
• THE CORN FIELDS OF CHAINLANE WERE EVERYBODY LOSES THERE V (CLASSY).
• the new landlord and landlady at the black bull next to the saints. at last a couple who are turning it in to one if not the best pubs in town, friendly and welcoming it's worth a look in, especially for halloween where all the staff and landlord will be dressed up,party games, give aways, prizes and telstar disco, the fireworks on the 3rd of november, i can't wait see you there.
• WELLIE MAN JOHN - rumours flew around about him being a secret millionaire. He once commended me on my shaved head when a bunch of people were takin the piss (I'm a girl) and told me "Its more hygienic love" he then screamed "Have smoked salmon for tea!" at me and threw some dirt in my face. They should have built a statue of him next to the YMCA not the minors!!
• SAINTS, TOMMY MARTIN Mmmmmmmm,SEAN LONG.Stealing Sean Long from Wigan (it was a big mistake for them to let him go),HE is one CLASS player and LOOKER.Living here i came from Glasgow 12 years ago.
• THERE ARE NO GOOD THINGS IN ST HELENS! APART FROM GOING TO TOWN ON A SATURDAY JUST TO LAUGH AT THE INBRED PEOPLE
• YO Earlestown scenic little jewel in her majesties realm.
• goin to red rocks with cans of beer and lying back watchin clouds go by
• The People, Clubs, Pubs, Low Crime Rate, LOADS OF FIT LADS
• This town is without doubt the greatest town on Earth, were not scousers, we sound fuck all like um.and any wiganer reading this can get the nearest object to um and ram it right up their arses
• The clean air, the brightly painted homes; the immaculately dressed teenage mothers unfortunate enough to have the Lord visit them and leave his own son!
• the sin bin on a thursday night, if you cant pull a crowd on £10 all in its time to quit
• THE WAY WE SMILE AT THE SCOUSERS, TAKE THEIR CASH, BUT F*CKIN HATE EM. INDEPENDIENTE ST HELENS. Any Pimbletts.Dont wanna know whats in em but is there anything better?
• Nights out with the girls round the towns pubs...we're the frightening ones in the Royal.
• saints RLFC, tommy martins arse and paul newloves thighs ! sean long even though he's not long by nature ! tony stewart , doing an all dayer round town. winning the challenge cup and mackys hangover cures !
• jeff duke. a world champion and very brave hero.
• Nexus
• NEXUS IS BRILL
• Bar X's chicken sarni
• THE PEOPLE OF ST.HELEN R NICE TO TALK TO, THATS IF U CAN FIND A SOBBER ONE HEHEHE.
• 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.
• porn and naked st helens women naked
• 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!
• Not living there anymore
• CLUBBING IT and the world champions of course!
• 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, just outside St.Helens, has the best video hop eva, FLIX Video !!! It also has the best staff :-)
• Eccleston, of course!!
• The people - we are a strange lot but there isn't a better bunch anywhere.
• 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 very short skirts on the very young women in the Plaza.
• 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.
• 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).
• St Helens has its own atmosphere at night.
• 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.
• Super saints rugby league: super league champions, Challenge cup champions two years running. The brilliant Labour Council (self praise).
• 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).
• Brilliant place names like Crank, Thatto Heath (aka.Donkey Common a long time ago) Red Rocks.
• Central Library has really good Internet access for a very reasonably price. Its run by "Connect" and the PC are good quality.
• More amusing place names- Pocket Nook, Fingerpost, Clock Face, Old Whint
• The environmental improvements that are taking place in the town centre

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