May 2008 Archives

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.

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.

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.

CHRISTMAS comes early this week as pupils at Rainford CE Primary School say goodbye to their headmaster back in 1989.

Sporty John Neville Fairhurst blew the whistle on his 35-year teaching career and waved a fond farewell.

The popular headteacher had worked and lived in Rainford for almost 22 years and said that he would still be taking a keen interest in the school and community.

THIS week we catch up with the cast of “The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew� as we sift through the 1991 Advertiser archives.

Competition for roles at BURSCOUGH PRIORY HIGH SCHOOL was fierce as all the pupils wanted to take part in the children’s play about a beastly baron who strikes terror among the natives, ruling the Bolligrew Islands with an iron fist and calling on a demon dragon to gobble up those who disobey him.

The story of the heroic knight Sir Oblong, who is sent from the mainland to restore peace by slaying the vicious dragon, is the creation of Manchester playwright Robert Bolt.