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GE - Gentry Collection
1 - Card indices to the photographs taken by South Lancashire Newspapers, mainly relating to the 'St.Helens Reporter'
2 - Photographers' diaries for the South Lancashire Newspapers, mainly relating to the 'St.Helens Reporter'
3 - Photographic negatives for South Lancashire Newspapers, mainly relating to the 'St.Helens Reporter'
4 - Photographic negatives of 'Historical Value' (HV) for South Lancashire newspapers, mainly relating to the 'St.Helens Reporter'
1 - Photographic negatives of Historical Value' (HV), for South Lancashire newspapers, mainly relating to the 'St.Helens Reporter'
1 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Church of St. Aidan, Billinge, Lancashire
2 - Photographic negatives of skiing scenes in St.Helens
3 - Photographic negatives of Carr Mill Dam, St.Helens
4 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Holly Farm, Rainford, Lancashire
5 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing cottage in Crank Road, Rainford, Lancashire
6 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing Taylor Park, St.Helens
7 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing gardens and lake of Sherdley Park, St.Helens
8 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Otterswift Cottage, St.Helens
9 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing the view from Crank towards Billinge Beacon, Lancashire
10 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing site of demolished building at the corner of Eccleston Street, Prescot, Lancashire
11 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Scholes Hall, St.Helens
12 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing Knowsley Hall and Park, Lancashire
13 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing 2 and 3-storey terraced houses in Prescot, Lancashire
14 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing demolition of Church Street and Derby Street, Prescot, Lancashire
15 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing Georgian houses in Prescot, Lancashire
16 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Cockleshall Cottage, Rainford Road, St.Helens
17 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Roman Catholic Church of St. Wilfred in Stubshaw Cross, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Lancashire
18 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Stone Row, Clipsley Lane, Haydock, Lancashire
19 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing well at Billinge, Lancashire
20 - Photographic negatives of 'The Hotties', St.Helens Canal
21 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing factory ('Poison Gas Factory'?), in Sutton, St.Helens
22 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic copy negative of engraving showing Robert Daglish and Company's Works, St.Helens
23 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing 'White Bridge' at Windle, St.Helens
24 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic copy negative showing Sefton Arms Hotel, St.Helens
25 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing collapse of yard wall at East Street, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Lancashire
26 - 12 x 9 cm glass photographic negative showing Clinkham Wood Library, Moss Bank, St.Helens
27 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing two Newton Racecourse cups, Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire
28 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Pilkington Brothers Limited Yachting Club, Eccleston Mere, St.Helens
29 - 6 x 6 cm negatives showing new flats and old cottages in Chancery Lane, Parr, St.Helens
30 - Missing when collection deposited
31 - Missing when collection deposited
32 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing Co-operative building (extension to Helena House), St.Helens
33 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing site where a bus crashed into a mobile crane in Prescot Road, St.Helens
34 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing site of collision between a bus and a car near Wellington Hotel, Prescot Road, St.Helens
35 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing scene of fatal car crash on the East Lancashire Road, near St.Helens
36 - 12 x 9 cm glass photographic negative showing collapse of Boots the Chemist shop, Ormskirk Street, St.Helens
37 - 6 x 6 cm photographic negatives showing conversions to the Theatre Royal, St.Helens
38 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing car belonging to W.G Dixon Ltd, Undertakers, Bickerstaffe Street, St.Helens
39 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing traveller's caravan with horse
40 - Photographic copy negatives showing the first St.Helens trolleybuses (numbers 1 - 4), in front of St.Helens Town Hall, before entering service
41 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing the last St.Helens trolley bus, No 374
42 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Church of St. David, Clinkham Wood, St.Helens
43 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing fire at St. Thomas's Church, St.Helens
44 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing Carmelite Convent at Eccleston, St.Helens
45 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing interior of Prescot Parish Church, Lancashire
46 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Locomotive No. D299, built by English Electric at Vulcan Foundry, St.Helens
47 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Windle Hall and Gardens, St.Helens
48 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negative showing Bispham Hall, Billinge, Lancashire
49 - 5 x 4 inch glass photographic negatives showing images for newspaper article about Lord Gerrard of Lancashire
50 - Fazackerley House
51 - Bold Old Hall: Gate piers and bridge (moat partly filled in)
52 - Leach Hall, Sutton
53 - South Lancashire Newspapers (SLN), St.Helens
54 - St. Peter's Church, Newton-le-Willows: repairs to tower
55 - Haydock Police Station, late 1950s
56 - Prescot Town Hall
57 - New Labour Exchange, Prescot
58 - Prescot: Old Town Hall and Church
59 - Prescot: site of War Memorial
60 - Prescot Parish Church: unveiling of stone commemorating restoration
61 - Prescot: town centre
62 - Prescot: old houses (3-storey, terraced)
63 - Prescot: War Memorial
64 - Prescot: Old Town Hall
65 - Prescot: Old Grammar School
66 - Prescot: Old Grammar School, plaque giving information on history of the school
67 - Prescot: Georgian houses
68 - Loyola Hall, Rainhill: clock tower
69 - Huyton-with-Roby U.D.C.: Town Centre Map (redevelopment)
70 - Huyton: former Council Offices
71 - Huyton: Derby Street prior to redevelopment
72 - Huyton: Rose and Crown, Parish Church and other buildings
73 - Huyton: Huyton Lane viewed from Rose and Crown
74 - Huyton: 'scene for redevelopment'
75 - Rainhill: Swan Farm
76 - Rainhill: Manor House Farm
77 - Rainhill: blacksmith at work
78 - 'Roman Barrow, Castle Hill, Newton-le-Willows"
79 - Rainford police station
80 - Victoria Park, St.Helens: Museum
81 - A and B Cars, Newton-le-Willows: showroom, with many cars, including Jaguars and Triumph Heralds
82 - Leigh, Lancashire: old views (copy negatives)
83 - West Derby village, showing horse-drawn omnibus
84 - Ormskirk Bank: 1823-1834
85 - Aerial views, etc, St.Helens area
86 - Aerial views of Prescot Roby and Huyton
87 - Huyton: Bluebell Estate
88 - Place House Antiques
89 - Earlestown: Curzon Cinema
90 - Burtonwood: Water tower
91 - Winwick Church
92 - Earlestown: train crash
93 - Earlestown: Police Station
94 - Earlestown: District School collapse
95 - Sugar Lane, Knowsley (?): houses
96 - "Phythians: gold coins": sovereign (?) of 1791 and half sovereign (?) of 1810
97 - Newton: Mesnes Park
98 - St.Helens Town Hall: Christmas tree and snow
99 - Victoria Square, St.Helens: snow
100 - Old Triumph car
101 - "Vintage Motor Cycle: Francis Barnet"
102 - Veteran car (Registration No DJ295) at Rainford
103 - Kirkby Hall
104 - Kirkby U.D.C.: Coat of arms, on grant of arms document
105 - Hollin Hey: snow
106 - Golborne: old cottages
107 - Golborne: old Police Station (demolition)
108 - Earlestown: Viaduct Recreation Ground
109 - Earlestown: District Primary School
110 - "Roberts Round House"
111 - Earlestown: Viaduct Recreation Ground
112 - Vulcan Works: new diesel locomotive
113 - Lowton: blacksmith at work
114 - Engraved gold church plate
115 - Snow scenes
116 - 'Sandstone man' (sculpture)
117 - St Patrick's Church (Newton-le-Willows?), crucifix and altar
118 - Burtonwood Church
119 - West Derby: Old (horse-drawn) carriage
120 - Kemble's House, Prescot
121 - Cowley Hill, St.Helens: gate posts
122 - 126 Sugar Lane, Knowsley
123 - Pocket Nook Street, Parr
124 - Temperance Bar, Liverpool Road, St.Helens
125 - Pilkington Brothers Limited Head Office, St.Helens
126 - Kirkby Railway Station
127 - St Joseph's Church, Kirkby
128 - Newton-le-Willows
129 - Billinge C of E School
130 - Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, St.Helens
131 - Mossborough Hall Farm, Rainford
132 - Flat in Glover Street, behind Liverpool Road, St.Helens
133 - Cottages
134 - St Nicholas' Church, Sutton, St.Helens: snow
135 - Lea Green Colliery, St.Helens: closure
136 - St.Helens Town Hall: Council Chamber and Banqueting room
137 - Skelmersdale: Old (Reporter?) office
138 - Newton Hall: fireplace
139 - Blackbrook, St.Helens: prefab houses
140 - Golborne Station: demolition
141 - Skelmersdale: Council offices
142 - Clipsley Lane Smith, Haydock
143 - Haydock Reading Room
144 - Haydock: public buildings (including remodelling of former colliery school)
145 - Haydock Park Races
146 - Thatto Heath, St.Helens: Police Station
147 - Ashcroft Street, St.Helens: before alteration
148 - Bickerstaffe Street and site of Century House, St.Helens
149 - Parr Flash
150 - Westfield Street, St.Helens from Prescot Road before flats were built
151 - Rigby Street, St.Helens: old forge
152 - Air raid shelter, Greenbank, St.Helens
153 - Central Station, St.Helens
154 - View of Beecham's tower, from St.Helens College
155 - North Road, St.Helens derelict land
156 - Eccleston Street, St.Helens: derelict land
157 - Leathers Chemicals, St.Helens: Views and letter
158 - Billinge: winter scenes: King's Moss
159 - St.Helens: traffic black spots
160 - Sutton: Poison gas factory
161 - Samuel Street, Thatto Heath, St.Helens
162 - Garswood Road, old houses
163 - Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows: chimney demolition
164 - Church of SS Mary and John, Newton le Willows
165 - Ravenhead Church Mission Hall, Thatto Heath, St.Helens
166 - Gamble Avenue, St.Helens, showing trees and houses
167 - Thatched cottage at Rufford
168 - East Lancashire Road (for feature)
169 - Upholland College (for a feature)
170 - Missing when collection deposited
171 - Tyldesley: chimney (3 views)
172 - Leigh Railway Station (5 views)
173 - Travellers and their (horse drawn) caravan (2 views)
174 - Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows: boiler house chimney (6 views)
175 - Huyton: trees in Griffiths Road (2 views)
176 - Victoria Park Museum, St.Helens - Mansion House exterior (6 views)
177 - Rev Laird White and barrel organ (2 views)
178 - Miss Hill, St.Helens' oldest resident at 105
179 - Dean Fitzpatrick and new organ in church (6 views)
180 - Lord Pilkington
181 - Jack Molyneux V.C.
182 - Vulcan locomotive for Sudan Railways, on road transport (4 views)
183 - Knowsley: cottages (3 views)
184 - Veteran car rally: also horse drawn carriage, penny farthing, etc
185 - Views of old Skelmersdale
186 - Victoria Square, St.Helens (9 views)
187 - St.Helens Town Hall on fire
188 - St.Helens town centre views (taken from crane?)
189 - Rainford Potteries, for feature
190 - Gerards Bridge, St.Helens: lorry stuck under railway bridge
191 - Mr Wade with veteran car at Hare and Hounds, Cronton
192 - Animals
193 - Digmoor Hall Farm
194 - Harold Wilson
195 - The Manse (Newton le Willows Congregational Church)
196 - Skelmersdale: streets to be demolished for New Town, and construction for New Town
197 - Skelmersdale area: summer views, including landscapes, historic buildings and canal
198 - Atherton: Historic buildings
199 - 'M6 motorway tour'
200 - 'Prescot changing face'
201 - Windle Pilkington School, St.Helens work on brook culvert
202 - Prescot old Town Hall
203 - Cut Lane, Kirkby: snowed up
204 - Leigh: George and Dragon, Market Place, etc
205 - 18th century Gothic style house at West Derby (Eaton Road) before demolition?
206 - Kirkby Stadium: official opening by Harold Wilson and athletics
207 - Morley's Hall, off Marsland Green Lane, Astley
208 - 'Lowlands', West Derby
209 - Kirkby New Town
210 - Upholland Parish Church: chandelier in chancel
211 - School Lane, Rainhill: snow scenes, winter
212 - Wheatsheaf Hotel, Sutton. St.Helens
213 - Old mill (round stone tower) at Upholland
214 - Accidents
1 - Upholland death crash: involving car and moped with 2 casualties (?), also shows old buildings and vehicles
2 - St.Helens Junction Railway Station: pedestrian crossing over railway lines, showing man's shoe
3 - East Lancashire Road crash (car and lorry)
4 - East Lancashire Road death crash (Volkswagen dormobile and lorry)
5 - Pewfall tanker near traffic lights
6 - Golborne Island lorry crash
7 - Eccleston, St.Helens bus smash
8 - Rainford by-pass crash (overturned car)
9 - Lorry being taken out of Manchester Ship Canal at Warrington by floating crane
10 - Car which plunged off M6 motorway at Vista Service Station, Newton le Willows (Prior's)
11 - St.Helens fire engine smash (collision with car)
12 - Fatal car crash at Vista Road, Earlestown
13 - Triple death car crash at Bold, St.Helens
215 - Snow scenes etc
216 - Lowe House Church, St.Helens
217 - Church Street, St.Helens from near Bridge Street Corner, looking towards old parish church
218 - Church Street, St.Helens, showing Fleece Hotel at left with rest of view looking east
219 - Church Street, St.Helens, looking from corner of Market Street towards Bridge Street
220 - Ormskirk Street, St.Helens, looking from Church Street
221 - Ormskirk Street, St.Helens, looking north and showing a tram
222 - Ormskirk Street, and Congregational Church, St.Helens, looking south and showing tram No15
223 - 'Top of Bridge Street, St.Helens', at corner of Ormskirk Street, showing Red Lion Hotel and 2 trams
224 - Railway bridge over Peasley Cross Lane, St.Helens
225 - Tram No 5 at Toll Bar, St.Helens
226 - Westfield Street, St.Helens, looking towards the Sefton Arms Hotel and the Town Hall
227 - Horse drawn tram in Ormskirk Street, St.Helens
228 - Open top bus in St.Helens decorated to celebrate the Coronation of King George VI
229 - Opening of the Prescot route, replacing the last St.Helens tramway with trolley buses
230 - Single decker Bristol B bus, registration number DJ34649 belonging to St.Helens Corporation Tramways with Mr J Chorley (later rolling Stock superintendent) standing beside
231 - Open topped double decker St.Helens Corporation tram No 34 at Toll Bar
232 - St.Helens Corporation tram No 5 as rebuilt in 1923 as a single decker, seen with tram shed behind
233 - Double decker St.Helens Corporation Transport Wartime design Sunbeam MF2 trolley bus, No 157 (registration number DJ9005), on route number 7, in Prescot Road
234 - St.Helens Road, Prescot, showing a tram
235 - Glass cone building, St.Helens with tall chimney with five boys in foreground
236 - Open topped double decker St.Helens Corporation tram, No 20, standing at the Horseshoe, Parr, terminus, taken before it was re-numbered to 32
237 - Interior of bus shed in Hall Street, St.Helens showing 12 buses and a small lorry
238 - Double decker St.Helens Corporation tramcar with closed ends on both decks, outside Hall Street Depot
239 - Leyland single deck 'gearless bus', St.Helens Corporation Transport No 60, registration No 6578
240 - Single deck St.Helens Corporation Tramways Bus
241 - Single deck tramcar No 14, at St.Helens Junction
242 - Double deck (Liverpool Corporation?) tram No 126 on route No 10, signboarded Castle St, Church St, Lime St, London Rd, Prescot Rd, standing beside double deck St.Helens Corporation trolley bus No 113, Reg No DJ9191, on Prescot route No 8
243 - St.Helens Corporation double deck tram No 9, signboarded St.Helens Junction, standing beside single deck St.Helens Corporation trolley Bus No 108 registration No DJ4084, signboarded Parr
244 - Double deck St.Helens Corporation tramcar No 1, as rebuilt as a fully enclosed low height car
245 - Interior of Hall Street depot, St.Helens, showing 3 double deck trams and 3 trolley buses (2 single and 1 double deck)
246 - View of British Plate Glass Works, Ravenhead, St.Helens
247 - 'Gavin Murray's shop window, St.Helens with reflections' and 'Lingholme Corner'
248 - Griffins Ltd Furnishers store, corner of Westfield and Ormskirk Streets, St.Helens showing Trolley bus wires
249 - Cotham Street, St.Helens, looking towards Town Hall, showing pedestrians, 2 buses and Trolley bus wires
250 - Church of St Teresa, Eccleston, St.Helens
251 - Church of St Teresa, Eccleston, St.Helens: organ and War Memorial
252 - Church of St Teresa, Eccleston, St.Helens: sanctuary lamp
253 - Church of St Thomas, Eccleston, St.Helens: interior, looking east
254 - St.Helens Parish Church: Lady Chapel interior
255 - Church of the Sacred Heart, Eccleston, St.Helens: interior, looking east
256 - New National Coal Board headquarters at Lowton (Scotia South)
257 - Official opening of 'sun loggia' at St.Helens Hospital
258 - Saints (St.Helens RLFC) car park development
259 - UG Sherdley, St.Helens feature
260 - Jim Clark's racing car (number 63)
261 - Theatre Royal, St.Helens re-opening
262 - Prescot Town AFC ground
263 - Group photograph of 12 people on the occasion of the visit to St.Helens by R A Butler and including also the Mayor, Joseph Murphy and Mayoress
264 - Exterior of Providence Hospital, St.Helens
265 - Remploy factory and insurance offices Knowsley Road, St.Helens
266 - Exterior of Boundary Road Baths, St.Helens
267 - Church of St Teresa of Avila, Newtown (old church): pulpit, with part of altar behind
268 - Lodge at entrance to Taylor Park, Toll Bar, St.Helens, also showing a wartime 'EWS' sign
269 - George Barnes, boatman at Taylor Park, St.Helens at the tiller wheel of his boat
270 - St Luke's Church, St.Helens
271 - View from the top of Dunriding Lane, St.Helens to Pilkington Brothers Limited works, across the site later occupied by Pilkington Brothers Limited head office
272 - Open topped double decker St.Helens Corporation tram, with crew and passengers
273 - St.Helens Corporation double decker bus
274 - Old houses on St.Helens Road, Prescot
275 - Co-op coal lorry in St.Helens
276 - Lincoln House, corner of College Street and Corporation Street, St.Helens
277 - Racing car event
278 - Austin Cambridge car, registration number 109 RW
279 - Alldays Midget car, registration number DJ295
280 - Ford Popular car, registration number FAU 892 in unidentified street of bay windowed terraced houses
281 - Motor coach registration number KVU 747
282 - Token (found at Eccleston?) for 'Ames noted Tea, Eccleston Street, Prescot', worth 2 shillings
283 - Midget book 'loaned from Prescot 1964'
284 - Earlestown station, the 'curve'
285 - Earlestown Station: last train to St.Helens signboarded No ZC53, Hunts Cross
286 - Central Ward Redevelopment (St Thomas Square)
287 - Reginald Road: Traveller eviction
288 - "Stepping stones at Windle" (St.Helens)
289 - The Beatles (George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney)
290 - House conversions in Molyneux Road, Liverpool 6, between Cambria Street and Tudor Street
291 - Joe O'Neill in front of his old newsagents shop (single storey building) at Kirkby
292 - Father Songhurst at St Austin's Church, Thatto Heath, St.Helens
293 - "GW's pit head"
294 - St Anthony's School, Kirkby, visit to Kirkby Reporter
295 - McLean and Appleton Garage, Prescot Road, St.Helens: delivery of new petrol tank (made by William Neill and Son, St.Helens)
296 - "St.Helens Civic Ball. Mrs Dunn Saga."
297 - Duke Ellington at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
298 - Incident at Golden Moon Chinese Restaurant, St.Helens
299 - Sabrina at Le Garrick Club, Leigh
300 - Old steam engine and tender (No GR123) at Winwick
301 - Thomas Melling's memorial 1896 (also of William 1893, Ann 1895, William 1901 and Elizabeth Melling 1929)
302 - New houses in Hard Lane, St.Helens
303 - "Terraced streets, St.Helens"
304 - Pennington Hall, Leigh, under demolition
2 - 'Historical Value' contact prints
5 - Leigh old pictures
6 - Aerial photographs
7 - Knowsley Hall and Park glass negatives
8 - A collection of prints and glass negatives acquired from St.Helens Reporter
9 - Royal visits to St.Helens
10 - Photographs of various subjects, including South Lancashire Newspapers operations
11 - Printing plates
12 - South Lancashire Newspapers' microfilms of local newspapers for St.Helens and vicinity
13 - St.Helens Reporter cuttings book
14 - South Lancashire Newspapers staff signing in book
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