Skelmersdale

They'll no longer be queuing up in Skelmersdale and Croxteth on a Thursday morning then.

Archive 2004-10-10 Laban 2004

The sorts of people who float the idiotic and insulting implication that an army of blue-rinse ladies and stay-at-home Mums with a bit of time on their hands are going to pop down to a housing estate in Skelmersdale and change an old man's catheter.

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Liam Kilroe, 25, from St Helens, Merseyside, died after grappling with Tony Singh on Birleywood Road, Skelmersdale, last week.

“Shut Up And Drive” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown waved to supporters at the Concourse shopping center in Skelmersdale, northern England, on Wednesday.

Brown Scrambles for Votes as U.K. Poll Nears 2010

A coroner concluded security guards Jason Swindlehurst, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, and Jason Creswell, from Glasgow, died from gunshot wounds.

OPEN THREAD 2009

Skelmersdale, like too many of his class, is something of a snob; he had told me to “shut it,” only under sudden, excessive provocation, and with, I am certain, a subsequent repentance; he was, I knew, quite glad to be seen walking about the village with me.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

She told him that, and you know Skelmersdale was already in love with her, but the pure inertia of his mind kept him in the way he was going.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

Skelmersdale had run a break into double figures, which, by the Bignor standards, was uncommonly good play.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

After all, ten years ago young Skelmersdale may have been a very comely youth.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

“Skelmersdale,” said I to myself at the sight of it, and went in.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006