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The town hall became the headquarters of the new municipal borough of St Helens on 2 February 1868 but, after the first town hall was badly damaged in a fire in 1871, civic leaders decided to procure a new town hall on the same site. [4] The new town hall, which was designed in the Victorian style, was completed in 1876. [5]
St Helens Town Hall as it appears today without the steeple. St Helens first became responsible for the administration of the wider area in 1836 when made a Registration sub-district of the Prescot Parish as part of the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 that devolved control down to the more localised Parish control (spurred on by the Reform Act ...
The first local authority for the town of St Helens was a body of improvement commissioners established in 1845. [4] The town was incorporated to become a municipal borough in 1868, after which it was governed by a body formally called the 'mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of St Helens', generally known as the corporation, town council or borough council.
St Helens (pronunciation ⓘ) is a large town [1] [2] and the administrative seat of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside, England. [3] The town was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1868, responsible for the administration of the four townships and manors of Eccleston , Parr , Sutton and Windle .
The main town in the district is St Helens, the others being Newton-le-Willows and Earlestown. Until the Industrial Revolution, the area was largely rural. Coal mining began in the 16th century, but modern industrial development began with the construction of the Sankey Canal in the late 18th century, linking St Helens with the River Mersey ...
Schools in St Helens, Merseyside (4 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in St Helens, Merseyside" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The Metropolitan Borough was formed on 1 April 1974 as a merger of the former County Borough of St Helens, along with the urban districts of Haydock, Newton-le-Willows and Rainford, and parts of Billinge-and-Winstanley and Ashton-in-Makerfield urban districts, along with part of Whiston Rural District, all from the administrative county of Lancashire.
St. Helen's (skyscraper), a building in the City of London; St Helen's, South Yorkshire, a location in England; St Helen Auckland, also known as St. Helen's Auckland, a village in County Durham Church of St Helen, St Helen Auckland, Anglican church; St Helens railway station (disambiguation), some of which were in or near St Helens, Merseyside