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

WEST Lancashire people were appearing on our national television screens in the early months of 1981.

In January Parbold ventriloquist and actor Dawson Chance started his own television show called "Take A Chance".

Dawson's partners on the show included a bull and a donkey in a kilt and was proving a big hit with children all over the country.

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.

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.

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.

AN entertainer from Parbold got his first break on television in 1980.

Ventriloquist Dawson Chance was awarded his own television series “Take a Chance." The former Butlins redcoat told the Advertiser at the time: “It is a situation comedy show and I play myself, an aspiring ventriloquist and working the puppets.�