April 2008 Archives

ROCK music of the early 1970s lived on in Parbold back in 1988.

Six old school friends pool musical talents to form band ‘Purple Haze’ to raise money for starving Ethiopians by staging a concert at Parbold Community Centre.

Lead singer Jes Barnes and his brother Eddie, on keyboard, teamed up with friends Alex Candlin and Owen Burdekin and brothers Tim and Paul Osbaldeston.

WE have gone back to 1981 with our photo of the Couch family who had their 15 minutes of fame on “Family Fortunes� with Bob Monkhouse.

The family from Skelmersdale were featured on the show after Doris Couch from Blakehall applied to appear.

The family came away with over £200 and were delighted to have their chance in the limelight.

MANY of you will no doubt have had a flutter on the Grand National last Saturday afternoon, so Memories is continuing the horse theme with this picture from 1986.

Gloria Townsend and her daughter Geraldine who organised a 100-mile trek to raise money for charity in 1986.

The six-day trail stretched through the Lake District from Milnthorpe to Broughton-in- Furness taking in the spectacular Wrynose Pass between Langdale and Seathwaite, travelling on roads, tracks and bridleways.

We have some very generous people who raised cash for children of Chernobyl in 1995.

The youngsters, aged eight to 12, came from Belarus to West Lancashire to spend a month living with local families and visited Burscough St John's CE Primary School.

The children were still suffering form radiation-related illnesses ten years on from the disaster and organisers of the Burscough and Lathom banch of Medicine and Chernobyl invited them to England so they could benefit from breathing uncontaminated air and eat radiation-free food.