by admin | Apr 24, 2009 | General news
This weekend Fred Taylor (Water Safety Officer for the MPSRO and Bolton MRT callout list member), along with his chauffer, Bolton MRT DTL, Geoff Seddon, both made their way to the Tyn Dwr Outdoor, Centre, Llangollen for a pilot waterside Bank Safety Course, being...
by admin | Apr 23, 2009 | General news
This evening, we commenced the first of our two part 2009 membership recruitment sessions. In total we had 14 expressions of interest in this intake, with 12x persons confirming attendance at our opening session. As it was the 12x actually became 8x, three women and...
by admin | Apr 23, 2009 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce the receipt today of a kind donation of £50.00 from the Thursday Circle, who are a group of ladies associated with the United Reformed Church of St.Andrew and St.George in Bolton. Their Treasurer, Jill Hollyman commented in a...
by admin | Apr 22, 2009 | 2009, Incident
Whilst the Team was engaged in the previous incident, NWAS (GMA) contacted the Team Base at 21:29 Hrs via ERC radio channel, to enquire about assistance at an road traffic collision on the M61 motorway. A vehicle had left the carriageway and crashed through a fence...
by admin | Apr 22, 2009 | 2009, Incident
With team members at our Ladybridge Hall Base/HQ this evening for our routine Wednesday evening training, our Team Leader who was present at our Base/HQ received a direct mobile phone call from NWAS (Greater Manchester) Control at 20:18 requesting the team’s...
by admin | Apr 21, 2009 | 2009, Incident
At 20:28 our Team Leader was contacted by NWAS (Greater Manchester) Ambulance Control followed by a pager call to the team at 20:30 from NWAS Control, both regarding the report of an accident in a quarry in the Egerton area of Bolton. In consultation with ambulance...
by admin | Apr 21, 2009 | General news
On the evening of Tuesday 21st April, 12 Gentlemen from the Men’s Group of St Paul’s Church, Astley Bridge, visited Ladybridge Hall for a second discussion about Bolton Mountain Rescue Team and their activities. After visiting the Group at St. Paul’s...
by admin | Apr 20, 2009 | General news
With just days to go to the start of our two part membership call out list recruitment sessions, commencing on Thursday evening, April 23rd and all day Sunday April 26th, we’ve had 13x positive expressions of interest via our on line initial membership...
by admin | Apr 19, 2009 | 2009, Incident
Three team Landrover Mountain Rescue Ambulances were in the team area when the local United Utilities Ranger at 14.46hrs alerted the team to a motorcycle RTC in the Rivington area. Our Team Leader contacted NWAS (Lancashire) control to pass on the information and...
by admin | Apr 18, 2009 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind £50.00 donation from Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletics Club, further to our involvement in providing standby rescue cover for their Easter Saturday Rivington Pike Fell Race events, see related news item dated Saturday 11th April...
