St Helens, Merseyside

St Helens () is a lairge toun 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. 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".

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

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), United Glass Bottles (U.G.B.), Triplex (awned bi Pilkington, farmed oot tae Indie), Daglish Foundry (closed an demolished 1939), an Greenall's (nou locatit in nearbi Warrington).

 Internaitional links 
St Helens haes links wi twa twin touns:
  - Chalon-sur-Saône, Fraunce - twin toun tae St. Helens
  - Stuttgart, Germany - pairtner toun tae St. Helens

 References 

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