St. Helens
About St. Helens
St Helens is a large town in Merseyside, England, with a population of 117,308. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens which had a population of 183,200 at the 2021 Census.
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Float glass was invented in the 50s in St. Helens. The idea is you could put a load of glass on a load of molten tin, melt it to a really high temperature, and then you put the glass on it and it sits perfectly on top of it, like if you pour oil on water.
from No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-02 at 00:15:46 · read transcript
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Colchester has, on its coat of arms, it has the three nails that she discovered. Really? Is it? Yeah. Wow. That's very cool. This is interesting. Where do you think the second largest collection of St. Helene's? Saints. Saints are. I'm going to say St. Helens, I reckon. In Merseyside. They've got this direction. It's not. It's Swindon. Is it? Swindalina, as it's known to the locals in Swindon. Oh, no. Like St. Helina. Swindalina. Swindalina.
No Such Thing As Drinking A Sock Full Of Custard, 2025-05-22 · listen
Wow. That's very cool. This is interesting. Where do you think the second largest collection of St. Helinians? Saints. Saints is what they're called. The Saints are. Yeah. I'm going to say St. Helens, I reckon, in Merseyside. In Merseyside, In Merseyside. They got misdirected. It's not. It's Swindon. Is it? No. Swindelina, as it's known to the locals in Swindon. What does that make any sense?
584: No Such Thing As Drinking A Sock Full Of Custard, 2025-05-22 · listen
It's S-T-H-L-Z. The point being, it's a Royal Mail postcode. It had its own postcode, I think. Apparently people kept writing to St Helena and Mail kept going to St. Helens in Merseyside, which is actually quite a long way to go from there. That's brilliant. Hard to know what to do with that mail when it drops through your doorstep. They gave them a Royal Mail postcode.
No Such Thing As Drinking A Sock Full Of Custard, 2025-05-22 · listen
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