Five-a-side winners

THE winners of a five-a-side football tournament feature in Looking Back this week.

Pictured above, the first Baxenden Scout Troop beat the first Clayton-leMoors group at Rhyddings Secondary Sports Hall in 1978.

They were among 10 borough groups competing for the Hyndburn Scout Trophy and each member of the winning team received a plaque.

The event was organised by Ken Smith, leader of St Augustine’s Huncoat and Doug Haworth, leader of Church Kirk and the beaten semi-finalists were the Stanley Troop and Church Kirk.

Spring came to Great Harwood Parish Infant School as pupils showed off the flowers they had grown at home.

Around 150 youngsters were given bulbs and brought them back to school four months later for the school’s annual bulb show.

Pictured (top right) are Scott Whittaker, Julie Allinson and Amanda Waring.

The nursing cadet division of Accrington St John Ambulance Brigade collected six out of eight trophies in a first aid competition held in Blackburn.

The picture (right) shows from the left Karen Spencer, Philomena Duxbury, Alison Gouldsborough and Susan Pickup.

More than 300 people attended Great Harwood Police Ball at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel in Clayton-le-Moors.

Among them were Mayor of Hyndburn, Coun Jessie Hall MBE, Chief Superintendent Robert Balmer, head of Accrington division and East Lancashire Coroner George Graham (pictured bottom right).

They were entertained by the Alan Wood Band and the Silent Night Disco.

Our final picture (bottom left) shows Maurice Pitcher, boat and match secretary of the Park Sea Angler’s Club in Accrington, receiving the John Daly Shield from Park Inn landlady Doreen Thelwell for a specimen fish caught at Largs.

Ian Woolley won the Jack Gregson Trophy for the biggest fish, landed at Aberystwyth and Jack Gregson won the Maurice Pitcher Trophy for the heaviest bag. PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER