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St. Helen’s Square

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St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
St. Helen’s Square
Phone:
+44 1904 621756

Address:
City Centre, York YO1 8QN, England

St Helens is a large town in Merseyside, England, with a population of 102,629. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, which had a population of 176,843 at the 2001 Census.St Helens is in the south west of the historic county of Lancashire, 6 miles north of the River Mersey. The town historically lay within the ancient Lancashire division of West Derby known as a hundred. Incorporated as a municipal borough in 1868, and responsible for the administration of the townships of Eccleston, Parr, Sutton and Windle, it became a county borough in 1887 and a metropolitan borough in 1974. The area developed rapidly in the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries into a significant centre for coal mining and glassmaking. It was also home to a cotton and linen industry that lasted until the mid-19th century as well as salt, lime and alkali pits, copper smelting, and brewing.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, and Greenall's brewery.
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