Ormskirk

Just hang on a second, I'll get you.

So Mr. Jones was from Ormskirk.

He was the referee, Lancashire.

Mr. Steele with some Carlisle and then Joel Courtney with some Spenny Moore just down the road.

And, you know, we're the first to say guilty as charged.

We've put so much media and attention into the National Comp and the National T20 that you are now seeing what it felt like for Ormskirk to win.

Brent Wood, two years ago, who won at Worcester.

And obviously, Shepherds Bush, who won at Wormsley this year And that impact is starting to grow more and more across clubs, isn't it?

So I was used to the dark late at night.

I was house-sitting a mansion in Ormskirk.

It was winter, and it had already been dark for hours.

The owner had two dogs that had to walk at least three times a day, morning, noon, and night.

no when you looked up he said I've got the banners or something like that I was looking at you he was like alright yeah but yeah so so yeah that's and then just doing the emceeing I did I did big event last Monday.

Was this a paddle event? Yeah, so it's a club opened in Ormskirk by Andy, the Bell family, Andy Bell, Tracy, Jan, the Albrecht family and the Regan family have opened this super duper club.

It's a club really rather than a paddle venue because this paddle forms one part of it.

If you like golf, they've got three massive golf bays, Trackman Bay.

Ormkirk, a three miles or five miles from Learpool, and about a two miles from Latham, a parish church in the town, no river by it, but mosses off each side.

Latham, most part of Stone, the chiefest house of the earls of Derby, two miles from Ormskirk.

Newton, on a brook called Golfordon, a little poor market, whereof Mr. Langton hath the name of his barony.

Sir Percy Lee of Bradley hath his place at Bradley in a park, a two miles from Newton.

Ormkirk, a three miles or five miles from Learpool, and about a two miles from Latham, a parish church in the town, no river by it, but mosses off each side.

Latham, most part of Stone, the chiefest house of the earls of Derby, two miles from Ormskirk.

Newton, on a brook called Golfordon, a little poor market, whereof Mr. Langton hath the name of his barony.

Sir Percy Lee of Bradley hath his place at Bradley in a park, a two miles from Newton.

No river by it, but mosses off each side.

Latham, most part of stone, the chiefest house of the Earls of Derby, two miles from Ormskirk.

Newton, on a brook called Golferden, a little poor market whereof Mr. Langton hath the name of his barony.

Sir Percy Lee of Bradley hath his place at Bradley in a park a two miles from Newton.

So they have...

They'd opened Hyundai businesses, um, in Ormskirk, Wigan and Blackpool, um, and had a Kia franchise in Blackpool too, and they've decided to exit them very, very quickly after opening them.

Um, and they're gonna concentrate on their franchises with Nissan and MG.

Unfortunately, they posted a pre-tax loss in 2025 of just under £1 million, and that followed a £1 million loss the year before.

But he's an old Skel man, isn't he?

he?Is he Ormskirk?

It, it, that early, yeah.

When he came down to us, uh, he came down from Ormskirk.

Was he studying in Ormskirk?

He sure did, yeah.

Right.

And, oh, what's it about? And I told the classic story.

And they, as I say, my colleague, who I call Bill, that's the pseudonym that I've used throughout, told me that he'd been driving across Halsall Moss, which is flat land between Southport and Ormskirk, which is in West Lancashire.

And he's a big guy, and he was in the Mini.

I mean, you always have to divide small people in big cars and big people in small cars, as the case may be.