Results tagged “1987” from O & S Advertiser - Memories

THERE were double celebrations all round for twins Colin and Mark Aspinwall who got matching degrees in 1987.

The Aspinwall brothers from Sandy Lane in Holmeswood both attended Loughborough University of Technology.

The brothers, whose family own Holmeswood Coaches, studied automotive engineering and design.

GOLFING legends Tommy Armour III and Christie O'Connor Jnr made a young Lydiate lad's day at an international golf tournament at Royal Birkdale in 1987.

Graham Birchall won the Whitegates Junior Putting Trophy and got to meet some of the finest golfers in the world.

Armour first joined the PGA Tour in 1981 at the age of 21.

THIS week, we have photos from 1987, the year Gordon the Gopher and Philip Schofield took over our television screens.

Another animal which was in the limelight in 1987 was eight-year-old mare Northern Bay.

Her owner Ann Stevens of Crescent Green, Aughton won the Fort Riley Supreme championship at the Northern Equitation Centre on Brookfield in Aughton.

EVERTON footballer Peter Reid dropped into Ormskirk Book Shop on Burscough Street in 1987.

The blues star, who was born in Huyton and won 13 caps for England, was signing copies of his book, ‘Everton Winter, Mexican Summer’.

At his peak Reid was the finest midfielder in Europe and was voted PFA Footballer of the Year in 1985.

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.

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.