NHS North West

Population: 296,000

Hold a mirror up to Halton and St Helen’s past and you will see images of the glass industry based there, the first man-made canal constructed there in 1757 and the Rainhill locomotive trials in 1829 for the world’s first intercity passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester.

Glass making still provides the area’s largest industrial employment and the area boasts the multi-award-winning World of Glass visitor attraction to explain it, but service industries and brewing have taken over where coal mining stopped.

However St Helen’s is probably most popularly known for the successes of the Rugby league champion club The Saints and for the tales recounted by home-grown comedian Johnny Vegas.

Halton boasts the medieval Norton Priory, a nature reserve along the banks of the River Mersey and the Spike Island area of grassland and woodland.The mighty Runcorn Bridge is one of the great engineering feats, mentioned in Stanley Holloway’s monologue 'Per Tuppence Per Person Per Trip'.

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For more information about health services in Halton and St Helens go to:
http://www.haltonandsthelenspct.nhs.uk
 
 

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