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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 are going back twenty years to 1988 when Liverpool and Everton football players turned out for a golf tournament.

Ormskirk Golf Club played host to the Lenton and McComb golf tournament with many personalities from the sporting world turning up to take part.

The picture shows former England footballer Geoff Hurst getting in the swing of things with David Lenton, Everton FC’s Paul Bracewell and Liverpool FC players Kevin McDonald and Gary Gillespie with Ormskirk business entrepreneur Mike McComb and former Liverpool and England footballer Ian Callaghan.

SPORTING legend rugby star Bill Beaumont who dropped by Croston Methodist school opened the school’s fair back in 1988.

Bill was captain of the England rugby union team, playing as a lock.

He won 34 caps for England, then a record for a lock, and was captain 21 times. He made his international debut as a 22-year-old in Dublin in 1975 as a late replacement for Roger Uttley.