by admin | Jun 4, 2011 | Donations, General news
Today we received thirty four individual donations all made in the memory of the late Mr Kenneth Leigh, who sadly passed away on Friday 15th April 2011 whilst in hospital. Mr Kenneth Leigh of Little Lever, Bolton, died aged 86 years old and is survived by his wife,...
by admin | Jun 2, 2011 | General news
This evening, under clear blue skies, 24x team members (plus our five team vehicles) provided Standby Rescue Cover for the fifth year running for the Hendersons End Fell Race which takes in a large circuit of the Rivington and Winter Hill moorlands. The fell race,...
by admin | May 29, 2011 | General news
Today team member John Fletcher travelled to Saddleworth in Oldham for a residential rope rescue seminar hosted by Oldham Mountain Rescue Team at the Boarshurst Centre. The seminar is open to members of Mountain/Cave/Search and Rescue Teams and our colleges in the...
by admin | May 29, 2011 | General news
Today saw the final day of the festival at The Avenue Pub, Leigh. Team members spent the morning completing our monthly vehicle and base maintenance day before Sam McKay, Diane Blakeley and Kris Kilshaw took BM4 down to The Avenue Pub to support the final days event....
by admin | May 28, 2011 | General news
Following the early morning finish of the first day of the music festival we arrived at The Avenue ready for the second day’s event. Mike O’Brien and Diane Blakeley arrived with BM4 which was parked outside The Avenue in Leigh for passers by to see. The...
by admin | May 27, 2011 | General news
This evening three members of the team waved a fond farewell to an old team favorite, our Incident Support Vehicle, Bolton Mobile 6 (BM6), which until April 20th this year was always known as Bolton Mobile 3 (BM3) BM6 was based upon a Land Rover Defender 110 Van Td5,...
by admin | May 27, 2011 | General news
This afternoon saw the ’Festival Warm up Party’ start at 12.00 noon, with the three day Music Festival commencing at 5.00pm this evening, and scheduled to finish at midnight on Sunday 29th May, all in aid of the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team Over thirty live...
by admin | May 27, 2011 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce the receipt today of a very kind donation from our friends and supporters at the Rotary Club of Darwen. We assist the Rotary Club of Darwen every year with their successful sponsored walk, and in turn the Rotary Club of Darwen very...
by admin | May 26, 2011 | 2011, Incident
This evening the team was paged at 19.45hrs by NWAS (Lancashire) regards an accident on the moors involving a 51 year old female horse rider who had fallen from her mount, sustaining injuries. Shortly afterwards a full team pager call out message alerted the entire...
by admin | May 25, 2011 | Donations, General news
Tonight, as the entire team were preparing to depart for their regular Wednesday evenings training exercise, we had a surprise visit by a small contingent from the 35th Bolton East (St Maxentius) Cub Scout Pack. Following their recent visit to the Bolton Mountain...
