Any town will have hidden secrets and mysteries that those from outside the area are unaware of.
St Helens is no different, with a long history and many oddities and secrets have even those born and raised in the borough may not know about.
But what is the town's best kept secret?
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St Helens is home to many factories, one of which- Kapak Foods- boasts a rather bizarre link to Hollywood.
Every wall, shelf and even the music playing over the speakers is dedicated legendary film composer Ennio Morricone, who has worked with Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro and Brad Pitt, among many others.
Speaking previously to the ECHO, CEO Keith Breewood explained his love, being the proud owner of the UK’s largest museum of rare memorabilia dedicated to the man he calls The Maestro.
He has been a passionate follower of Morricone’s music and everything associated with it for more than 50 years, since he first heard it as a boy watching the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars.
“I started when I was about 10, when my parents decided to go away for a week and have my older sister look after me,” he remembers. “She and her boyfriend, who is now her husband, wanted to go and see an Italian western and I was a bit of a gooseberry. I was too young to get in really, but I was quite tall so they dressed me up and smuggled me in. I didn’t know what I was going to see but when the film came on I just fell in love with the music.”
The town's first ever MP, Henry Seton-Karr, was born in 1853 and sat in the House of Commons from 1885, however, his tragic death was part of one of the most deadly maritime accidents in history.
In her Book, Secret St Helens, Sue Gerrard discusses the MP's death, she said: "The town's first MP was educated at Harrow and Oxford University, where he gained an MA in law... He died aged 61 in Canada's greatest maritime disaster when the Empress of Ireland sank in the St Lawrence River.
One secret, which the truth behind has long been debated, is the existence of an underwater village beneath Carr Mill Dam.
Merseyside's largest body of water is thought to have been a large man-made consequence of the industrial revolution, with maps from the late 18th century beginning to show the outline of Carr Mill Dam.
Information from the St Helens Local History and Archives Library shows that major developments took place on the dam as a result of the developing railway links between Wigan and St Helens, which passed close-by the Carr Mill.
Despite the rich and well-documented history of the dam, rumours stuck around of an 'underwater village' at Carr Mill Dam, however the accuracy of these claims is disputed.
One local said: "People say they can see steeple of the church popping up in a drought."
Another St Helens resident said: "My dad was a recovery diver I think in the 1960s and 1970s when they had the speedboats races [on the dam] , the boats then would lose their engines if they flipped, it was his job to recover them , he said the only thing down there was an old stone wall and the odd car."
