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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Aaron Curran

Huge town centre fire that swept through supermarket and caused 'chaos'

A Merseyside town centre saw a huge fire sweep through a supermarket, causing "chaos".

A blaze ripped through the upper floor of Lennon's supermarket on Ormskirk Street, St Helens in June 1968. Papers at the time described "chaos in the streets".

According to local historian Stephen Wainwright, Frank Lennon established Lennon's as a grocer around 1915 when he opened a small shop in Park Road in Parr. Later his sons Terence and Dennis inherited the firm and in 1958 the brothers opened their first supermarket.

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