A charity football match in October 1987 between employees of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company and Sorensons Motors in Hardwick Road, Lynn, gave a £2,000 boost to the Norfolk branch of the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Although the busmen won by 8-2, the real winner was the charity in the match played in front of enthusiastic spectators at the William Burt Centre in West Winch.
Mr Alan Irwin, of Sorensons, who helped organise the match with the help of EC minibus driver Mr Andy Gromoff, said: “It was a great day and we shall challenge them again next year because we want the winner’s trophy back.”
The bus team are on the left in this picture. Photo: MLNF-878354
The bus team are on the left in this picture. Photo: MLNF-878354
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS: OCTOBER GOOD CAUSES
2000: Staff and customers at the Victory pub in Clenchwarton raised £1,754 through bric-a-brac sales and a fete in just four months for Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The money was to be divided between the hospital’s kidney unit and heart unit. The pub landlady Janet Reeve, holding her seven-month-old great granddaughter Melissa Walpole presents the cheque to consultant physician Dr Kit Byatt. Also pictured are former landlady May Leake (centre) and some of the pub regulars who helped with the fundraising. MLNF-0010826162000: Top children’s author JK Rowling donated three signed copies of her best-selling Harry Potter books to an auction of 57 promises organised by Barclays staff at Lynn. These books attracted the evening’s top bid of £200 and helped towards a total of £2,820 being raised for Cancer Research Campaign. Barclays colleagues, from left, Tracy Simpson, Jacqui Morley and Ray Howard hand over their auction proceeds to Linda Cook, secretary of the charity’s local branch. MLNF-00105903A2000: Beards, eyebrows and hair styles were shaved off at Lynn’s Royal British Legion Club to mark the launch of the annual Poppy Appeal. Stuart Adams (front left) was the barber, helping these RBL members celebrate their fundraising stunts. Back row from left, Stuart Martin (minus hair), Mike Pittan (minus beard); middle row, Henry Hart (minus eyebrows), Carole Waudby (showing a new poppy tattoo on her chest), Richard Waudby (minus hair and beard), Tony Goodier (minus half a beard); front Roger Albini (minus moustache). MLNF-00109862003: Shoppers in Lynn helped to raise £774.50 for the children’s ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital during a fun day to mark the relocation of Specsavers Opticians. The store had moved from St Dominic Square to Norfolk Street and celebrating the move are, from left, in-store trainer Andrea Hall, senior receptionist Kelly Heard, director Chris Rawlings, former manager Cath Davies and contact lens supervisor Sarah Carter. MLNF-03104502003: Kind-hearted Nellie Masters, of Watlington who had helped raise thousands of pounds for disabled horse riders was on the receiving end when fellow fundraisers surprised her with gifts. Nellie (centre) was thanked for her 13 years of organising car boot sales for Riding for the Disabled (RDA) at Wallington Hall, near Downham. With her are Rachael King, Tony Stanford and, on Domino the horse, Rachel Long. MLNF-03101202006: There would be no more worries about having to do the washing up at Downham’s Social Centre, thanks to the generous gift of £2,500 for an industrial dishwasher from Downham Lions. Pictured from left are Lions welfare chairman Norman Jelliman, the president John Fox, social centre vice-chairman Ted Whitworth, Lions member Malcolm Lawrence and social centre cook Freda Seaman. MLNF-06109132006: Staff at TB Bonnetts in Stoke Ferry dressed up to raise around £500 with their Wear It Pink day for Breast Cancer Care. Visitors and customers gave generously, said the event organiser, Janet Stocking, who is pictured far left holding the company cat. MLNF-061011042006: Lynn Rotary Priory Club treated around 120 elderly folk to a roast dinner and entertainment at the William Burt Centre in West Winch – a party which the club had organised annually for several years. Standing on the left is club president James Morgan. MLNF-0610971
The above photos are from today's paper and date from 2000, 2003 and 2006.
