October 2007 Archives

BURSCOUGH butcher Eric Mullis retired from the trade in 1987. Eric had bought his shop on Liverpool Road North 24 years previously from Jim Smith whose father and grandfather ran the business before him.

Jim Smith’s father Harry took the shop over from the Walker family and the name was associated with much of the property around Burscough which they owned at the time.

IT’S a Knockout host Stuart Hall attracted lots of attention when he visited Ormskirk in 1982.

Stuart came to open the Moorgate Indoor Market, performing the official ribbon cutting ceremony in front of a bumper crowd.

ORMSKIRK born Aston Villa and England international Tony Morley is pictured receiving BRMB Radio Listeners' Midland Sports Personality of the Year in April 1982.

A skilful winger, Morley enjoyed the best days of his career at Villa Park. He was seen as a wayward genius but was moulded by manager Ron Saunders into one of the most dangerous players around.

This picture shows a very cheeky puppy named Ben. He was featured on the front page of the Advertiser in February 1994, after clearing out the whole contents of the fridge while his owners slept.

He ate a whole chicken, an Edam and several other cheeses, 20 tubs of yoghurt and half an apple pie.

THIS picture which was published in the Advertiser in January 1994, but was actually taken 57 years previously in 1938.

The picture shows Emma Forshaw of Dyers Lane, Ormskirk on her 100th birthday, with four other generations of her family, taken in their garden.

Emma was a great character in the town. As well as being a pipe smoker she was noted for keeping a parrot which perched on her shoulder.