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1980: Ormskirk Cricket Club and Rainford Bushey Lane Primary
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on July 17, 2008 9:00 AM
THIS week we go back to 1980, the year JR was shot and Juliet Bravo showed Jean D'Arblay struggling for female equality in a fictional Lancashire village.
It was also the year that the Brooklands Cricket team took on each other in a 'Superstars' competition.
First team skipper Derek Anderton, Mark Swindlehurst, Roger Finn, Jack Call, who also chairman of Ormskirk Rugby Club, Don Pratt and Dave Brighouse entered into the spirit of the occasion.
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1987: Gordon the Gopher, horses and Noah's Ark
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on July 10, 2008 9:00 AM
THIS week, we have photos from 1987, the year Gordon the Gopher and Philip Schofield took over our television screens.
Another animal which was in the limelight in 1987 was eight-year-old mare Northern Bay.
Her owner Ann Stevens of Crescent Green, Aughton won the Fort Riley Supreme championship at the Northern Equitation Centre on Brookfield in Aughton.
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1988: Budding football stars score a place with Everton and Stockport County
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on July 3, 2008 9:00 AM
This week's Memories takes a look at two budding soccer stars who played for the Grimshaw team in Skelmersdale back in 1988.
Stephen Reilly and Lee Barrett earned their first step on the way to making a career in professional football.
Stephen was granted a youth team place with Everton and Lee, from Burscough, was selected for a place with Stockport County.
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1987: Everton's Peter Reid drops into Ormskirk
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on June 26, 2008 9:00 AM
EVERTON footballer Peter Reid dropped into Ormskirk Book Shop on Burscough Street in 1987.
The blues star, who was born in Huyton and won 13 caps for England, was signing copies of his book, ‘Everton Winter, Mexican Summer’.
At his peak Reid was the finest midfielder in Europe and was voted PFA Footballer of the Year in 1985.
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1986: Martial Arts experts in Ormskirk
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on June 19, 2008 9:00 AM
This week experts from the Ormskirk Academy of Martial Arts drop in from 1986.
Nicola Ibison and Jeff Bullock were named the ‘Fittest Couple in Britain’ after a gruelling competition at the Thorpe Park Hotel in London.
Jeff was a British Thai Boxing champion and the pair both had black belts in jujitsu and karate.
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1985: Botanist David Bellamy at WWT Martin Mere in Burscough
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on June 12, 2008 9:00 AM
THIS week we have a picture taken in 1985 of David Bellamy at Martin Mere in Burscough.
Botanist Bellamy was there to open the Wetland and Wildfowl centre’s new marsh garden.
When it was opened the garden was the only one of its kind in the North West, featuring plants like water lilies and marsh marigolds.
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1983: Aughton rock band 'Voice from a Crowd'
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on June 5, 2008 9:00 AM
WE begin with a “Voice from a Crowd”, a band from Aughton who were making themselves heard in 1983.
Our picture shows band members Richard Hampson, Neal Aitken and Dave Anderson, all aged 18.
With Neal on drums and Richard, better known as Chod, and Dave on lead and bass guitars, they were playing venues in and around Ormskirk.
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1992: Scouting for Burscough FC supporters
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on May 29, 2008 9:00 AM
WE kick off this week’s Memories with a picture of Gordon Cottle and young football stars of Dynamo Football Club taken in 1992 at Victoria Park in Burscough.
The football scout was on the search to recruit more young supporters for Burscough FC.
He told the Advertiser at the time: “I want to try to raise awareness among many young people in the Burscough area to come and join us at Victoria Park.
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1987: Everton player Bobby Mimms stops at the Windmill Inn in Parbold
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on May 22, 2008 9:00 AM
WE kick off this week with football star Bobby Mimms who stopped by the Windmill Hotel in Parbold in 1987.
Bobby was presenting a cheque from the Veterans Cricket Team who raised £215 for the Leukaemia Research Fund.
Bobby began his footballing career as an apprentice at Halifax Town, however he found it difficult breaking into the first team and joined Rotherham United in November 1981 for a fee of £15,000.
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1990: Martin Mere celebrates its 15th birthday
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on May 15, 2008 5:38 PM
WE are back in 1990 this week for the Martin Mere’s 15th birthday celebrations.
Our first picture shows staff at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Centre on Red Cat Lane in Burscough.
The mere is a vast marsh that, until it was drained, was the largest lake in England.
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