The Facts
Browse the many things there are to be POSH about under each of the different categories.
The Eclectica Music Festival
The annual Eclectica Music Festival in August is one of the Northwest’s most exciting and up-and-coming free summer music events - previous headline acts include Echo & the Bunnymen, Michael Franti & Spearhead, and Dreadzone....
The Channel 4 Big Art Project Site
The site of the former Sutton Manor Colliery has been selected as one of only seven UK locations for the Channel 4 Big Art Project, the UK’s biggest ever public art commissioning initiative and Channel 4’s most ambitious ever arts progr...read more...
Dream
Dream is the spectacular, internationally significant, landmark sculpture sited on the former Sutton Manor Colliery in St.Helens, close to Junction 7 of the busy M62, midway between Manchester and Liverpool, where it is passed by over 35 mi...read more...
The Verve Guitarist
Rock guitarist Nick McCabe of The Verve is from St.Helens....
Beautiful South Vocalist
One-time Beautiful South vocalist Jacqui Abbott is from St.Helens....
The Channel 4 Big Art Project Artwork
The working title for the gateway new artwork to be created overlooking the busy M62 close to Junction 7 is "ex terra lucem" (out of the earth comes light). Tthe sculpture is intended as a high impact new icon and attraction for England’...read more...
Antony Gormley's "Field for the British Isles"
Field for the British Isles – a terracotta army of 40,000 8-26cm tall figurines weighing 27 tonnes that won Antony Gormley the UK’s most prestigious art award, the Turner Prize, in 1994 – was crafted in St.Helens from local (Ibstock) ...read more...
Punk Drummer Budgie
Budgie, a.k.a. Peter Edward Clarke, the drummer with seminal 70s/80s punk/post-punk legends Siouxsie & the Banshees and spin-off band The Creatures, was born in St.Helens....
Actor Gary Stretch
Hollywood actor, model and ex-boxer Gary Stretch, who has starred in blockbusters Alexander, Dead Man's Shoes, and World Trade Centre, is originally from St.Helens....
The Citadel Arts Centre
The Citadel Arts Centre in St.Helens Town Centre was voted as one of the top ten Jazz and Blues venues in the UK by national newspaper The Independent in 2003....
Hollywood Actor Herbert Mundin
Famous Hollywood character actor Herbert Mundin (1898 – 1939) was born in St.Helens. He starred in more than 50 films, including The Adventures of Robin Hood, alongside Errol Flynn (1938), Mutiny on the Bounty with Charles Laughton and C...read more...
Oscar-winning Screenwriter Colin Welland
Celebrated screenwriter and actor Colin Welland was born in Newton-le-Willows. He appeared in the 1970s BBC series Z Cars, and in films, including Kes (1969), before concentrating more on writing. He won the 1982 Best Original Screenplay Os...read more...
Hollywood Choreographer Paul Harris
Paul Harris is a leading choreographer, dance teacher and movement director also born in St.Helens. His best known work includes the wand fight sequences for Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix and the laser scenes for Catherine Zeta...read more...
Harry Potter Film Director
David Yates, the Director of the latest blockbuster Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and an Emmy Awards winner for Best Direction in a Made for TV Movie, was born in St.Helens. He has also been confirmed as the D...read more...
Oscar Winner George Groves
George Robert Groves (1901-1976) was a film sound pioneer, credited as being Hollywood’s first “sound man”. He won three Oscars for Best Sound for his work on the classic films Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Sayonara (1957) and My Fair ...read more...
The Channel 4 Big Art Project Artist
One of the world’s leading artist’s - Jaume Plensa - has been commissioned to create the internationally significant landmark new artwork on the Sutton Manor site, Born in Barcelona, Jaume has exhibited all over the world and completed...read more...
Pop Icon Rick Astley
Late 1980s pop phenomenon Rick Astley was born in Newton-le-Willows. His 1987 debut single "Never Gonna Give You Up" was the UK's Number 1 for five weeks and the year's best selling single, also topping the US charts in 1988. This was just...read more...
Comedian Bernie Clifton
Most famous for his puppet ostrich Oswald and the 1970s TV show Crackerjack, comedian and entertainer Bernie Clifton is from St.Helens....
Johnny Vegas
Comedian, actor, celebrity, and fanatical Saints supporter Jonny Vegas (a.k.a. Michael Joseph Pennington) is from St.Helens. Johnny was a keen cricketer in his youth, even playing for England juniors alongside Steve Harmison, and studied a...read more...
Hollyoaks Actresses
Hollyoaks actresses Carly Stenson (plays the character Stephanie Dean) & Emma Rigby (plays the character Hannah Ashworth) are both from St.Helens....
Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham
The conductor Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 –1961), the grandson of the famous pills magnate, was born in St.Helens. He founded both the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, and from the early twentieth century until his...read more...
