by admin | Jul 31, 2011 | Donations, General news
On Thursday 2nd December 2010, three team members gave a presentation on the work of the team to the Probus Club of Worsley, at their meeting venue of Walkden (Formerly St Andrews) Methodist Church, Manchester Road, Walkden, Worsley, receiving a wonderfully kind...
by admin | Jul 31, 2011 | General news
Today we are happy to announce the receipt of a very kind Card of thanks from Rivington Foundation Primary School Parent and Teacher Association, in regards to our attendance at their Summer Fair of Saturday 9th July 2011. (When Team members Mark Scott and David...
by admin | Jul 31, 2011 | Donations, General news
We are pleased today to announce the receipt of a very kind and thoughtful donation of £50.00 from Mr Doug Moss of Bolton, the brother in law of the missing man involved in our Incident 48-2011 on Tuesday evening, 26th July 2011. The whole team would like to...
by admin | Jul 30, 2011 | 2011, Incident
At circa 17.11hrs this evening, NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Control Centre, received a 999 call from two hill walkers on Winter Hill, one of whom had suffered a very painful lower back / hip injury after stumbling over a moorland grass tussock. Mobile phone reception...
by admin | Jul 28, 2011 | General news
As part of our long established and continuing links to the successful GMP Police Cadet scheme, this morning the team welcomed to its Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ twenty seven Police Cadets from the GMP Bolton Division Police Cadet summer 2011 scheme. Arriving at...
by admin | Jul 26, 2011 | 2011, Incident
Upon returning to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ at the conclusion of the previous incident, and having checked over our vehicles and just leaving, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE at 17.00hrs received a mobilephone call from GMP Sgt Steve Baldam (Who he had been in a...
by admin | Jul 26, 2011 | 2011, Incident
At 15.21hrs this warm and sunny afternoon we were paged by NWAS (Manchester) Belle Vue Control, to assist with an incident at one of the Wilton Quarries following the report of an accident to a climber. Greater Manchester Police had received a 999 call from the group...
by admin | Jul 26, 2011 | General news
No sooner have this years events finished than we are already involved in planning next years events! This afternoon our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE met with Sally Hayes of Bolton MBC and Sgt Steve Baldam of GMP, at Bolton Town Hall, to discuss and arrange the date...
by admin | Jul 26, 2011 | General news
This report was written by team member Diane Blakeley I am a teacher at Wellfield Business & Enterprise College in Leyland. The college is very supportive of my work with Bolton Mountain Rescue Team, allowing on a number of occasions me to attend call outs,...
by admin | Jul 25, 2011 | Donations, General news
In the summer of 2009, Robert (Bob) Atkins, the Director of Radcliffe based PARAT UK Limited, very kindly donated completely free to the team a substantial amount of equipment. This very supportive and thoughtful donation included 40x brand new hand search torches,...