by admin | Nov 11, 2007 | General news
In the early hours of the cold winters morning of Tuesday 16th November 1943, a Wellington Mk 1c twin engined bomber of 28 OTU ( Operational Training Unit ) Royal Air Force, crashed with the sad loss of all aircrew onto Anglezarke Moor north of Bolton, in the area now...
by admin | Nov 9, 2007 | General news
Early this morning, Bolton MRT team members Mike Marsh and Gyles Denn journeyed across the Irish Sea as guests of IMRA, to take part as invited guest lecturers on this years IMRA Party Leader Training Course weekend. The IMRA course modelled upon and developed from...
by admin | Nov 9, 2007 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a large number of individual donations all made in the memory of the late Mrs Jennifer Field of Smithills, Bolton. Jennifer (or Jenny as we knew her) was a former team member through from our early formative years and into the early 1990s,...
by admin | Nov 5, 2007 | General news
This evening our Team Leader Garry Rhodes met with Pat Byrne, Chairman of the Charity Committee of the Rotary Club of Horwich, at our Ladybridge Hall Base/HQ. Pat Byrne was visiting the team to discuss a very kind offer of support from the Rotary Club of Horwich to...
by admin | Nov 5, 2007 | Donations, General news
Today Dave Healey, our Radio Communications Officer, received three envelopes in the post,with some rather nice surprises inside. The surprises totalled £85 and were donations from three people whom Dave had met on his recent North Atlantic cruise. They were all...
by admin | Nov 5, 2007 | General news
This evening our Team Leader Garry Rhodes met with Pat Byrne, Chairman of the Charity Committee of the Rotary Club of Horwich, at our Ladybridge Hall Base/HQ. Pat was visiting the team to discuss a very kind offer of support from the Rotary Club of Horwich to the...
by admin | Nov 4, 2007 | General news
The team has a role within the Greater Manchester area joint with the Oldham MRT to maintain a structures/line rescue capability, if called upon to do such when assisting Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, or indeed when responding to calls from NWAS and GMP...
by admin | Nov 4, 2007 | 2007, Incident
Whilst packing away kit at the end of our tower crane exercise in Manchester City Centre, at 14:32 the team was called direct by NWAS (GMA) to respond to the report of a 68 year old male walker who had collapsed in the area of Crank Hill, Billinge, in fields away from...
by admin | Nov 3, 2007 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a very pleasant surprise in the post in the form of a £1,500.00 donation from Greater Manchester Police for “the assistance provided by The Bolton Mountain Rescue Team.” This is a considerable donation, gratefully received by...
by admin | Oct 31, 2007 | General news
In spring and early summer 2003 (March, May and June) 16 team members attended a series of CBRN Decontamination courses organised by what was then Greater Manchester Ambulance Service, with the courses each being run over a two day period to the NHS recognised...
