August 2008 Archives

WE have five lads from Hesketh Bank this week using pedal power on a penny farthing to raise money for charity in 1982.

Peter Ball, Joseph Webster, Patrick Iddon, Jonathan Webster and David Cropper decided to ride from Southport to Hesketh Bank in aid of cancer research.

The boys set off from Southport Promenade and went via Banks to Becconsall Farm where 200 folks gathered to cheer the lads home.

FRANK Bruno packed a punch in the Advertiser in 1989 and brought flower power to West Lancashire.

Frank was in the area in time to open Southport flower show and the heavyweight boxer was such a hit with the crowds that the opening ceremony was delayed.

He even had a carnation named after him and asked whether he was a keen gardener, he joked: "I'm a darker version of Percy Thrower."

THIS week we start with a few old codgers who were making an appeal for the return of some ornaments to their local watering hole in February 1988.

Barry Taylor, Jim Winrow and Len Saunders, regulars at the Red Lion in Burscough, used to have their own place 'Codger's Corner' where they used to sit every time they had a pint.

Landlady Mary Kitts placed four wise monkeys carved from wood which depicted the proverb 'see, speak, hear and do no evil' and a shell owl as a joke on the five men who sat there.