From the Guide files of Friday, January 4, 1980: OIL rig workers kindly donated £6,000 to Nazareth House in Prestwich.
The money was raised by workers on the Piper oil platform in the North Sea to buy presents for needy children.
l PRESTWICH mother, Susan Lenihan, celebrated the Christmas Day birth of her daughter Katja Elizabeth. Baby Katja was born at North Manchester General Hospital at 1.05pm, weighing 7lbs 9oz and was a welcome sister to seven-year-old Sonja Elaine.
l THREE people were rescued from a fire at Stanhope Court in Prestwich. Warden of the sheltered flats, Mrs Margaret Appleby was trapped on a first floor balcony along with her husband Michael and an elderly neighbour until firemen and a passer by came to their rescue. Mrs Applebys two daughters escaped through a ground floor window.
l IT was the end of the year and the start of a new decade as people welcomed in the 80s. New Years Eve parties were held at the Longfield Suite in Prestwich and Besses United Reformed Church, Whitefield.
l THOUSANDS of pounds worth of televisions and video recorders were destroyed in a warehouse fire at Albert Close, Whitefield. Fire crews from Whitefield, Bury and Broughton were called to the blaze at Focus Television Ltd after it is believed one of the sets exploded an ignited the others.
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