Results tagged “ormskirk advertiser” from O & S Advertiser - Memories

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.

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.

THE KICKING Donkey Pub in Scarisbrick was overrun by American GIs and country yokels back in 1985.

The car park was crammed full of trucks after the pub was chosen by the BBC for the Little and Large comedy show.

The comic duo were dressed as country bumpkins who were cleverly swindling American soldiers out of their money.

THIS week Memories honours the Royals in 1981, with Ormskirk's golden boy George Longstaff picking up his Duke of Edinburgh Award at Buckingham Palace.

The 18-year-old, of St Helens Road, was a student at Preston College and gained the gold award after passing his bronze and silver awards.

He had to do advanced first aid work, a 50-mile walk in four days, and a spell as a helper at a home in North Yorkshire.

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.

THE New Year marks 155 years since the Advertiser was founded by Thomas Hutton.

However, he was more than just the founder of the paper, he was a man who took a great interest in the town to which he came to at the age of 14 as an apprentice.

For seven years he dreamed of founding his own newspaper and in September 1853, he produced the first four-page edition.