by admin | Sep 20, 2008 | General news
In the very early hours of this morning at 02.42hrs we were paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester) for assistance with an incident near to Upholland Road in the vicinity of Billinge Hospital, involving a 15 year old male at an off road location. At 02.47hrs a full team...
by admin | Sep 20, 2008 | General news
Another successful all day store collection for the team today, at Morrisons Blackhorse Street, Bolton premises. 10 full team call out list members, 4 trainee team members and 4 of our Support Group members all attended, raising a fantastic £294.76. As ever, a...
by admin | Sep 19, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a very kind donation of £25.00 from the membership of Accrington and Blackburn (C.H.A. 1921) Walking Club, with the following enclosure from their Honorary Treasurer Kathleen Rigby ; “I hope this will be some little help to your...
by admin | Sep 19, 2008 | General news
As with any voluntary organisation, members personal circumstances can change which have an impact on their availability and time they can devote to the team. Over the last few weeks we have lost some valued team members from our Call Out list, and record here with...
by admin | Sep 18, 2008 | 2008, Incident
This afternoon and into the evening hours of today the team was involved in one of its longest rescue operations of recent years which commenced with the report of a woman walker having sustained a fractured leg injury. This incident included multiple ambulance...
by admin | Sep 17, 2008 | Donations, General news
This evening, immediately following our official handover of the catering trailer, and whilst team members were still assembled in the courtyard of our headquarters we received a surprise guest visitor (only our Team Leader was in on the secret) in the form of Alan...
by admin | Sep 17, 2008 | General news
This evening, the team was honoured to receive as its guest Mike Wilkinson, the Managing Director of Preston-based Wilkinson Mobile Catering (constructors and suppliers of mobile catering trailer units). Mike had journeyed to our Team base to officially handover our...
by admin | Sep 16, 2008 | General news
As part of the teams continuing programme of ’Mountain Rescue awareness’ visits to our colleagues in other emergency services, this evening the team visited Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Leigh Fire Station to carry out a team vehicle and...
by admin | Sep 16, 2008 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind and thoughtful £50.00 donation from Mrs Jackie Tomlinson of Bolton, in lieu of a Birthday present for her friend Ed Gradwell, who is celebrating his 50th birthday with a party on 19th September. Ed has requested “strictly no...
by admin | Sep 15, 2008 | General news
Regular readers will be aware that the team was featured in the August 2008 issue of Lancashire Life magazine, (see news articles dated 25th June 2008 and 28th July 2008) as part of a special feature on Bolton. Lancashire Life magazine has now published this entire...
