OUR COUNTRYSIDE s D Rbbleidale and In the lur iiiNG my


many the


excursions thblight hag often


occurrW ti^'ine that a .reeprti- ing of their experiences would make an outstanding book,


Thei book would'; be cor.-


cemed with experiences 1 n and arpurd the countryslc e we .kpbw so well, tor ttie' majority of the people In lbs pages have h id ho .gteat desire to wSVeLfflf Afield.'


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vhlioi'bL cV^!U t s a t lb n , ' Ih' general tnfei}’ 'haW hb 'd ^ 'e to ta s te ip e ' iferttts 'btti' tiie other sldfe ot’ th i ftnebi-Ihsy are' i lAasea ;tb ! Ibave nil th at


to th i ‘ Sheep •sh’d i catae, wi lo are seldpm -satisfied eV ih tbhen-theirrbwh' ilasture IS ^ai that! bonld' be 'aeslre'a.


‘ The trend of civiHsa'tliiii


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„ certainly morb In What a t first mbets I t all I depends


tastes ana sehses are con­ cerned—Ii the taste ; Is good all Is well. If not, then we have discontent and all we associate dltlons.


peop e to story of persuadln


ih


HOdd^r Valley ; I have met Interesting.people and


By “ N A T U R A L IS T ” experiences would hiake a book;


for their;age and a wonderful- advertisement for their creed. ■


One, I ain pleased to say. Is!


ih his 91st year, In gppd| health and possessing as he | told ni'e—all his facilities. His i recipe for such fitness can undoubtedly be the coiintty- Slde'arid the simple thlhgs 6f life. '


,1 \ Naturdliy i was Very pleased


to find bur .'philosophy of l^e wbs very slmilat, and I W^s particularly - Impressed with ohe suggestion.


. We had been .discussing .the deUghte ::of bird, fiong. wh?n my.. .friend iiiimade a very striking claim. I t was . as follows. Unless ^pu have, been in a ' wopd ■' Vefif '.edrly, 6 h , a May bt June moim!lhg ybu have not lived.


Those were his exact words


and whllfe they mdy Appear to be top dogmatic I ,have eyery reason to 'believe them to be


tru e .. i i NOT UVED


VOU have, .not lived .unless ydii'haTC neard and;,^ep


thb first Stli of life add dll the'glorious sounds Of day-j break; Those, however, who have not had such an experience will think the Idep somewhat extreme — those who have experienced the. delights and inspiration at such a time will, I am sure, understand his meaning.


However, to return to cur


long ago : them to


character^. The main would not be In getting these relate the bmus!,ng in


with such ccn- obsta lie


but! revial


thelrl identity Mcist ate reluctant to See


ITHOUT SECURITY ITE |0H THONE


theii naiaes in print. They are far top modest and do iiot wish.to advertise In ai|y sh^pe or ferm.


NOT WISE


course there ai^e' m^ny things which chnot


, unless t i e events to< half| a century ago.


gentleme a who several cameos


hlfch would Both


included' or ^oddf r.


Dijiring the week l5CVC10.i UM


repeated,! at least nop wit living memory. You may telk of poaching but 'it would pot be wise I to give details certain excursions* when sain .on a,re coming u astreim, )k place


gbve


in any book r.


delightful bite of pMosoihy w ,,P,. T . . . , . , -u— I . „Tj j e


IAAVVO V V.. w..- have! to


an d , tt


met |two me ose


of Ru ble are remarkable ijaeii' My frlefid then went on tp


show the delights of the countryside—the sunsets, sun­ rise, the bird song and then surprised me by naming the spring arrivals not last yea,r but half a century ago.


| Quite f r a n k l y I was


astounded, not only with tlpe wonderful youthful putloox but with his obvious ihsplrsj- tlon at such an outstanding


age. He has spent a good


number of -y'ears In the Bashall area and I thought his meeting with a widely travelled visitor at- Whitewell well worth repeating.


The man was fishing, aW


in those days a stranger wps soon noted. He had travelled


all over the world and afijer comparing advantages 'and disadvantages had come |to the conclusion that there w,as “ nothing to beat this any­ where.”


! ALWAYS INTERESTING


GUCH interviews and peeps into the past are always


Interesting. To compare the ways and conditions of '60 j or 70 years^ago with our ways and nfeahs in 1959 forin- a


pleasant form of entertaln-| ment.


They were - ; 'undoubtedly


happy days, with people In. town and villages providing much of their own pleasure. The days of canned .music, TV, talkies, space travel or the motor car were all to be In the distant future.


■ ■Indeed, I Was -iifemihded pi


this a week or- sb^ ii^p at Slaldburn. I had i been lectur-j-


lilfe 'In the Village ,and liter went along tb l i^ s tMefMr’s for supper. W e ‘sat cnattihg bybt supper- and; I was surf ptteed 'to heiif shfe had lived for a time a t Whitendale.


ing from - WMtendale, 1 to Qlltheroe in ordw.to attend p


J:Then she toM'me of walkL


wedding.- I thought o f ;thb complaints such i would brln^ ftom many so used - to car t ta v a But there was fio transport In those days att|d Miss Llttlelalr; had to walk 1,4 Ihlles or Miss her^ friendls Those were .the


i But When you come to think


(of i t -a re , we. Sappier or.,:content with all ^ r amenities, lahour-teavlng


devices and amusements , in comparison to those, .days when hay was transported on sleighs ftom the sUrroundlng fell at whitendale?


I W i n t e r ’ s t a le


rr-HE night, "was dark, and chill ■ ihe wind,


Reluctant to retire. i


[ coals,-


An Icy draught crept through the house, •


' ' i


stairs. And suddenly felt old.


Come, stir yourself,’ my vife exclaimed.


Its just as bad for me.


Besides, I switched the blanket on Just as we finished tea I"


j


My blood bPgan gyrating, -I That lovely -blanket, soft md


j Within my bed.was -waiting. warm,


I locked and barred the door, In sweet anticipation of The glowihg warmth In store


raked the ash, I wound clock,


'■ /


And then my- faith was bruised, The blanket was as cold as nie - The ruddy thing had fused ! j


I doffed my pants, threw off shirt,


i ■ i, , “ JlMlFEL”’ my ,


Ch, joyous thought I Oh, preci­ ous g i f t!


: ' the ' . I


I thought of bedroom cold. The long, lone, climb up frigid


i huddled by the fire, •To draw some heat from dying


. | A DISGRACE I


eroe think it a disgrace that a town of this size should hdt have a public dance hall and baths.


sir,—The teehagsrs o7| Cllth-


out of toTO by young and old alike, who are seeking their entertainment elsewhere. ,


iwery day mbhey is being spent ;


Surely, If Wehts such as the New -Year’s ball can he held


,at the King Lane Hall it mould be ■ possible .to, extend ithls to a weekly or fortnightly event, .i


tb#n ap f te before the Magis­ trates for offences, -which could bo avoided, I f . .only,,. they., pad o ^ r -means to,, occupy I their tihie, - instead of hanging round street corners.


Many ' young. people of this . • .,


all the'yputo cHibs,.in .cnito are Clpsed bp, a .salurdr- thd yoiWg ;:»eople are


their entertammept Por.tomp. Saturday.lp, tflcpnly


M !, to® .to go^^ - iilQWbere,,,Sxcept toe p/fitUres, of


■day ih ,wm?h. they nre -gllowed itoj -go oiit, dUP to atudlffl, etc.,


which there are .too .manjy.;


agers as- wpU as paieni same steohg® feeling al subject , ds I do. TE


I .am sure many other teen- Im'


ive the ieNAI


f t this [ACER.


Tiafi UNlTB» NATIONS


have spoken so often in cpnihien- datlon of thM ^ e a t o r^ is a t lo n (the United Nations) 1 hftve, now


to ' aomit blatant misapbroma- tion of its objects and prostitu- tlpn of Its alias, by the Western


Powera.: , .1 I have had a t different times


to call attention to theselhappen- ings The present case is that of Hungary. Why Hungaryi? 'What a'bout' Malaya, Kenya, .and Cyprus, Suez, Oman, I Jordan, Nyasaland on the part of Britain?


j


'Ihei murders committed in connection with these excursions


. were mostly, if not all,' in jcon- nectlon iwith Britain's 'centuries oldi^practice of colonialism.!


Then ! Eisenhower, if f he ' had


succeeded -with his proposed war in Lebanon, Hungary would have been like a street .fight compared with what he would have brought down on the world —probable annihilationj Besides all this, how many


'feir,l-l)e^lte .toe, 'fact [tha); .1 I •


earned',him a Fellowship of the Royal Society, but this was iOVershadbwed by the traglciklillng of his friend and mentor,


,1. M wo k , Capt..jCbok.


.. y .TOen he, attempted Ito recover the bodies of hisj captain and the marines who perished with him, he was


Uii ' wuira. II* wucumuii wlth asttbnomj ott I


n conectlon , i j , , , ’ , i


■One might argue ”'Why not joln-a-yeuKh club? ” -The lact is


' bound for future gerieratlons. jCapt. king miote the third and last volume of the


Grammar School. *— - ----


Voyages of 'papt. Cobki after the latter’s death vln the Sandwich Islands.


i The son ,bf a:,curate/ he


first gained his Interest In the . sea after leaving Cllthe- ro'e Mid travelling actoss the Irish 'Sea”?rohi his home In Raphde Dean­ ery to schlSMSpliand.


WHeil only 12 Seals old afid setved under ifiany diStlhiuished edimmafid-, felS i n c l u d i n g 1 LoM Rodney. - At the agbtof '24 hfe IMt thfe 'NavS and htudled Ih Paris and later at Oxford Unlver- SltSi his inaiii subjects being-.mathejna.tlcs and


He entfered Ifie 'Navy astronomy. ..


■ Aitet tvto S/eats’ Study came Gie chance of his hfetiiae-^n lavitaMon


ijx) jphj, Uapt. l5ook bh a voyage to discover the North West ' passfe’''


thls VOjiage I


:stpned by the natives andj had great difficulty in leaving; the Island alive.


House of Commons and hli Bishop of Rochester and a


Cabt. king’s father wa B


! at one time Chaplain tb the brother, Walker King, became friend of Edmund Burke.


irthday greetings fo Aid. WUllam Wilkinson, a


forrher Mayor of Clitheroe and still an active member of the! Town Council, who celebrated his 80th blrthddy


this week. ' | The congratulations of the


countries has he notj supplied with arms . and encouraged enmity against the Soviet Union? A point I ought'!to make


against bringing up Hungary is the diflMence in typaof subjects. Compare Hungary with Nyasa­ land. The Hungarians who came here, as refugese were not to be compared with the inhabitants of Nyasaland. I am not excusing the Soviet Union—neither we nor they have any permission or right to murder people because i they get ih oUr way, but the question of subjects In hand is to be con­ sidered. The difference in quantity is


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not to be compared, but ithe fact that the British, murdered 52 Africans in the entire'absehce of violence on the p a r t , bf , - the Africans is ah everl^tlhg blot on the British Government. Further­ more, they, the British, attemp­ ted to cover their beasfly wicked­ ness up by,, telling a blatant lie, viz. that,toe Africans, had a plot. My 'appeal is to all "members of the United Natlbns to dbMand a decent court for this bfganisbtion.


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A. W. LUPTON, President.


Council were extended by the Mayor, Cbun. J. ‘Entwlstle, at Tuesday’s meeting and, ui replying, Aid. Wilkinson said he really enjoyed being amofig his;! Councillor friends a id appreciated their congratuli- tions as much as from any­ one.


' A staunch j Methodist, he


has been organist at Unibn Street Methodist Church, Lbw Moor, for many years.' He was electe(f to the Ctouncll- as a Labour representative from Low, -Moor In 1935 and was made an Alderman In 1945,


. j * . ' *


'T'lHE -recent note In our 50 ■years Ago feature about


the Clitheroe man, Mr. Woodcock, who made wireless experiments with an Otfey enthusiast has led to a letter from Col. J. F. M. Robinson,


' ivhb writes from Kent. (joi. Robinson, , .who, of


course, has close associations with this district, writes tliat he!used to give Mr. Woodedek a hand at times when he (Cbl. Robinson) stayed at me Castle with his cousins. Cjol. Robinson, was then a traliied signaller In the Inns of Court Mounted Infantry, and |so could send and .receive morse code, the method of com­ munication, by which wireless first started. .


i ’The sets used were called a


“ crystal with a cat’s whisker.” One terminal was I n ' |he “coal hole” under the Re'cbfds Room at the Castle, the other on'I castle Hill beyond Carter’s works at, Salthlll. Mr. Woo;fcock was a very


clever mathematician. He had, believes Col. Robinson,


INTO THE PAST 25 YEARS AGO


Items from our issue;of December 21st, 1909


Q W N H A m’’ S electlrlclty


■^ supply was switched on by Mr. Ralph Assheton,! M.P, son of the squire.


i The Langho mill of Messrs. * * *- !


Green Bros., was to!Be closed, but their Abbey Mill, Bfillng- ton, the larger of the: two,


waste be re-opened. * * *


An R.A.F. plane taking off;


at Wa d d l n g t o n crashed through a fence. The planej was;,badly damaged'^ but the pilot and a passenger; were uninjured.


There were 595 m


Clitheroe Wesley was. reported by G. W. Tyson at the meeting. * *


lembers of Circuit, Iti ihe; Rev quarterly


. The,weather was, very mild Indeed! Primroses were bloom Ing In gardens and on. tht railway lines, and In one Cli­ theroe garden the mezereeir was'Still in'flower.


. Mr. John Coates was re^ elected president of Low Moor


Industrial Society | and , Co­ operative Store, Ltd.


; ■ * * * ' The Rev, John Wright


32, C / j i S T L E S T R E E T , C L I T H E R O E ! .Telephone; Cliiheroe 886-887


pastor, of Clitheroe ; Con­ gregational Church, preached hls farewell sermon,' a t Barrov Congregational church, when many friends from CHtoeror Jolned'the congregation. 'Thi


officials at Barrow had earlle presented Mr. Wright with


cheque. , 150 YEARS AGO


Items from our issue of December 24th, 1909 '


A WOODEN bungal(jw


destroyed by fire. '■ r : * *


, Clitheroe Parish Church


Choral and Orchestral Society gave a performance of the “ Messiah.” The soloists were the Misses Langford, Sattfer- thwalte, N. Hardacre,' Mrs. Wi .G. Garnett, and Mrs. T. Rawsthorne, Messrs. G. S. Calverley, A. Dyson and Langshaw. Mr. Dybell ■. the conductor, with Mr. j J. Tomlinson leader of the orchestra, and Mr. J. Higdon at! the piano. '


. ;i ; # * , , * .


| I


Mrs. R. Asplpall and ^rs.


Ofme organised, an amateur theatrical performance In the Public Hall for the CUtheroe Nursing , Association, ’the curtain raiser was a fantasy “,The Shades.of Night” and this was followed by seVqral dances by Miss Worsley- Taylor, and the comedy IJiMy


Lord In Livery.” # * *


Snowstorms were prevalent,


and the. treacherous state *' the roads, was responsible tlie, overturning of a horsed-


charabanc at Lower Header Bridge, All the occupants—


.students from Stonyhurst College—were thrown out but only one needed attention.


! ■ ' * . It *■ 'The annual Pendle ; Po 'est


Hunt-Ball was held in Whajley Assembly Rooms.


In


the grounds of Middle- wood Hall, Chatburfi, 'was


a LOW MOOR CLUB. — The newly-formed


youth club . at Union Street Methodist (Siurch, Low Moor, closed for the Christmas period after Wednesday’s meeting, i


The club, which has about 20


members, meets on Wednesday evenings and is run by church. officials. Anyone who is over the age of 10 can,join.


. PARTY.—Old and new mem­


bers were-welcomed by Mrs.||M. Walmsley at the Christmas party of Low Moor Club lames’ section yesterday week;


Carols were sung and games !|


played, and committee members served the supper. ■ The piariist was Mrs. Parker.


; TOYS.—Children of St. Paul’s


Church, Low Moor, brought toys to a service in the church |on Sunday afternoon. Their gifts were placed round a decorated and illumrnated (Ohristmas tree in the sanctuary, and will remain there until after the carol service on Sunday, when they will i be distributed to orphan children. •pile Vicar, the Rev. A. K. Bis-


brown, conducted the service and gave an address, and the Mayor,-- who was accoMpanied by the Mayoress, read’ toe lessons.


I GISBURN j ■ CAROL SERyi'CT.-On Tues­


■ festival hall.'af the Invitation of tile headmaster,' :Mr.‘ J. ; S.


Precious. ' i The service began with the


singing of ” 0 come all ye faith­ ful,” followed by Bible readings


by Philip Peel, David L e ^ , Freda Prankland, Ruth Lancas­ ter, Joyce Parker and Bruce


Altham. , | ’The service concluded with jh®


CJhrigtmas Litany, read by the Vicar, the Rev. W. M. Lister.


Advice, Estimat^:-


day afternoon the Children from Gisbum Prlma® School enter­ tained'their mothers add friends with a carol •• service in the


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He has long served the Cli­


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,Ooun, Crossley also takes an


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' However, he took up where his captain had left off an d ! completed the third volumje of remarkable discoveries.


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