August 2007 Archives
1970: Up Holland Labour Club Football
Posted by Peter Harvey on August 31, 2007 2:36 PM
TONY MARTIN from Ashurst handed us this photo from 1970. Tony is pictured on the front row (fifth from left) which shows Up Holland Labour Club’s A and B teams at Chequer Lane fields in 1970.
It was taken just a year after he moved into Elmstead from Croxteth. He started at Glenburn but only had four months of full-time education left.
Eventually, he started at the EAST LIGHT FACTORY but his abiding memory of the town at that time is that there was very little here.
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Euro-crazy!
Posted by David Sudworth on August 31, 2007 11:15 AM
WE’RE going all European this week with our first snap, below, taken on a French day in July, 1994.
Schools in Burscough held a variety of events designed to increase youngsters’ awareness of Europe.
Pupils at St John’s CE School designed their own passports and learned about travelling to different countries.
Next, we have Ormskirk Grammar School who won the trophy for orienteering awarded by Merseyside and Cheshire League, being placed first in five of the six events in April, 1994.
We have some strapping young lads in our third picture,. Our photo was taken in November, 1994, and shows the Lancashire Rugby team who beat Cumbria 41-24 at the first Sun Alliance Colts County Championship match to be staged at Ormskirk Rugby Club on Green Lane.
Phil Janson and Peter Cottam, who are crouched down in the foreground, also played for Ormskirk’s own under-19s team.
The next picture, above, shows a trio of talented musicians featured in the Ormskirk Advertiser also in November, 1994. The students from Rainford High School took part in the Merseyside Police Festival.
David Geoghan, 12, won £800 in the cornet playing category and was invited to play with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. His sister Helen, 15, finished third, playing the euphonium. Liz Dunsdon, 13, also took part in the final.
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Ellen chronicles Holmeswood Chapel's history
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on August 23, 2007 4:23 PM
HOLMESWOOD Methodist Chapel organist Ellen Mee is hitting all the right notes with her new book.
For a number of years Ellen, a lifelong member of the church, has been collecting information and photographs about the history of Methodism in the area.
Ellen's work has now come to fruition with the publication of her book, which recounts the story of the Methodist people of Holmeswood over the last two centuries.
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Steam Team at Ormskirk Railway Station
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on August 16, 2007 2:59 PM
FOR Chris Wilson the best years of his life were spent working on the railway at Ormskirk train station.
Chris, of Whalley Drive, left Wigan Road Secondary Modern School, now Ormskirk School, when he was 15.
Unsure of what to do after leaving school, he went to seek advice from the youth employment agency.
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Double Trouble in 1982!
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on August 2, 2007 2:44 PM
We have double trouble times four in our picture of twins taken in June 1982. Two year-olds Graham and Michael Black, Steven and Mark Swann, both six and 14-year-olds Lyn and Paula Fletcher welcomed new arrivals Andrew and Jodie Sharrock to the street.
Each set of twins lived next door but one to each other on Waddicar Lane in Melling. New mum Pat Sharrock told the Advertiser at the time: “There’s a blessing on Waddicar Lane but nobody warned me.
“ At least I’ll know where to go for advice when they’re both screaming at once!”
From left to right Graham and Michael Black, Steven and Mark Swann, Lyn and Paula Fletcher with new arrivals Andrew and Jodie Sharrock
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Skelmerdale Nursing Cadet Team
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on August 2, 2007 2:35 PM
The Skelmersdale Nursing Cadet Team won a place in the St John Ambulance Nursing cadets national finals.
The all-girl team from St Richard’s RC High Schoool, which has been demolished since, also won the Dunbar Nasmith Cup in the North West heats, and were trained by former St Richard’s pupils Tom Sweeney and Kathy Taubman.
Pictured are Nuala Carkill, Louise Duff, Camille O'Hara, Patricia Duff and Denise Carkill
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Skelmersdale Kick Boxing Club 1988
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on August 2, 2007 2:30 PM
This picture shows kick boxing champions from Skelmersdale taken in May 1988. The club were celebrating awards they won in two competitions in Manchester and Wales.
Pictured are Davey Gibson, James Pilkington, Guy Gibson, Natasha Bimpson, Stacey Bimpson, Kerry Ann Gibson, Ian Humphries and John Duxberry with trainer Albert Gibson
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Darts at the Plough Pub, Ormskirk 1975
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on August 2, 2007 2:24 PM
In July 1975, darts player Tommy O’ Regan popped into The Plough pub. He was the only Irishman to captain England’s darts team as well as the Irish team during the 1970s.
He met his match at the Plough in the form of the landlord’s 10-year-old son James Steele, who stepped up to the mat and played a blinding game of 301.
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Robert Kilroy-Silk comes to town!
Posted by Gemma Jaleel on August 2, 2007 2:10 PM
BEFORE the university teaching, daytime talk show and celebrity status that went with it, Robert Kilroy-Silk was the Labour MP for Ormskirk.
Originally from Birmingham and the son of a Navy stoker, Kilroy took over the Ormskirk constituency in 1974.
During this time, he attended various events including the Mencap children’s Christmas party featured here.
This picture was taken in December 1975, when he was relatively new in the area and shows PC Dan Cardwell who provided the entertainment, as well as chairman of West Lancs District Council, Bob Kirby.
Kilroy kept his seat until 1983, before taking up the constituency of Knowsley North. He was appointed Shadow Home Affairs spokesman, but resigned in 1985.
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