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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 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 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.