St Helens, Merseyside

St Helens (Aboot this soondpronunciation ) is a lairge toun[1][2] in Lancashire, Ingland. It is the lairgest dounset an admeenistrative centre o the Metropolitan Borough o St Helens wi a population o juist ower 100,000, pairt o an urban aurie wi a tot population o 176,843 at the time o the 2001 Census.[3] The toun wis offeecially incorporatit as a Municipal Borough in 1868 responsible for the admeenistration o the 4 tounships consistin o Eccleston, Parr, Sutton an Windle, wi the lairger responsibility as a Coonty Borough established in 1887 (supersedit in 1974 bi the lairger still Metropolitan Borough).

St Helens is situatit in the far sooth wast o the historic coonty o Lancashire, in North Wast Ingland, 6 mile (9.7 km) north o the River Mersey. The toun historically lay athin the auncient Lancashire diveesion o Wast Derby kent as a "hunder".[4]

The local aurie developed rapidly durin the Industrial Revolution o the 18t an 19t century intae a significant centre for coal minin,[5][6] an glassmaking.[7][8] Baith prior an durin this time it wis an aa hame tae a cotton an linen industry (notably sail makin)[9] that lastit till the mid-19t century as well as salt,[5] lime an alkali pits,[9] copper smeltin,[10][11][12] an brewin.[13]

The day, St Helens is vera muckle a commercial toun. The main industries hae syne left, acome ootdatit, or hae been ootsourced leavin the float an patterned rolled glass producer Pilkingtons, a warld leader in thair industry, as the toun's ane remainin lairge industrial employer. Previously the toun haed been hame tae Beechams (nou pairt o GlaxoSmithKline), the Gamble faimily o the Alkali Works, Ravenhead glass (bought oot bi the Belgian naitionalised Durobor),[14] United Glass Bottles (U.G.B.), Triplex (awned bi Pilkington, farmed oot tae Indie), Daglish Foundry (closed an demolished 1939),[15] an Greenall's (nou locatit in nearbi Warrington).

Internaitional links

St Helens haes links wi twa twin touns:

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