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Colourful legacies will be worn at this party


re handed down from generation to generation, and on Tnpsdav the women will don them again for a farewell dinner party at Preston before the party of 15 from Oslo and nearby Lamberseter leave the district.


HTHE lovelv embroidered national costumes worn by these a X three Norwegian women, who are staying in Whalley,


E From left to right are Mrs.


Wibe and Mrs. Grete Heyer­ dahl. Behind, in the centre, is Mrs. G. Murgatroyd, of- Abbey Road, Whalley, who has one guest, and next to her is Mrs. E. W. Hull, of Mitton Road, who has two guests.


vy Falck-Knudsen, Mrs. Liv


Lilian Bushell, who is staying with her sister, Mrs. Hull.


Also in the picture is Mrs.


children, one of them a 16-year-old bov, to come on this visit, and many of the visitors have families.


Mrs. Wibe has left four


cidentally, is related to one of K the members of the famous


Mrs. Falck-Knudsen. in­


also hotesses for members of the Norwegian Housewives


on-tiki expedition. toTwo members of Grindle-


n Women’s Institute are


Association. The president, Nurse K. M.


Teece, has as her guest Mrs. Bjorg Hellieson from Lamber­


seter. “ When Women’s Institute


members- went " to - Oslo - "last year I stayed with Mrs. Hellieson, so we are good friends by now. She speaks very good' English too,” Nurse


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Teece told me. A Clitheroe member of the


Grindleton Institute, Mrs. A. Mercer, of Faraday Avenue, is another hostess and Miss Collinson and Mrs. Whalley, of the Knowle Green Insti­ tute, also have Norwegian guests.


hostesses may entertain their guests as they choose.


wMy guess is that the shops


naturally the Norwegians want souvenirs of Lancashire.


ill be a big attraction, and CHAMPION JULIA


TPLEVEN - YEAR - OLD Julia XJ Hodgkinson, of 20, Black­ burn Road. Rishton, hopes to make ballet her career, and she seems to be going the right wav about it.


Hodgkinson, a member of a well-known Clitheroe family who is captain of Clitheroe Cricket Club’s First Eleven and president of the Rlbbles- dale League, and Mrs. Hodg­ kinson, became junior ballet champion at Manchester on Saturday.


Julia, daughter of Mr. E.


from all over Lancashire for the event, which is open to girls under 14, and It Is the first time the trophy has come to East Lancashire.


There was keen competition


the youngest entrants, i j In her five dances a:


Lytham, she won three first; and two second prizes.


; fi Julia is a pupil at Heath-


Blackburn, and hopes to jolt a corps de ballet when she is older.


eld P r e p a r a t o r y School Jecm Miller


Mrs. Winifred Thornton, of Walton-le-Dale, and Mrs. Hull were among the five people who met the Norwegians at Newcastle early on Monday morning.


The organising secretary.


Exempt from rates


he Mersey Tunnel and on year ending March 31st, 1962, Wednesday Lady Worsley- has been granted by Clitheroe Taylor entertained the party Rural District Council to four to lunch at the Red Pump, at village halls in the area.


toOn Tuesday there was a triprpOTAL e xemp t i o n from t Liverpool and Chester, via general rates for the


ashall Eaves. Preston was vlllage Hall: £74/ 8s. 6d. to visited in the afternoon.


Bashall Eaves, and also took Exemption of £20 11s. 3d. B them on a tour of her farm at has been granted to Chatburn This weekend is a free lis. to Downham Village Hall;


chipping Village Hall; £81


weekend when no arrange- and £42 18s. 9d. to Pendleton ments are made and the village Hall._______________


The water wheel stops- for the last time


IN 1840 the people of


Dickens’ England were just becoming accustomed to the steam locomotive, the power loom and the Indus­ trial Revolution. Many people c o u l d remember fighting Na p o l e o n and hounding the little Emperor


all over Europe.


In 1840 the great water wheel at Whalley Abbey Corn Mill was new, strong and efficient. Now it is old, worn out and ready to be scrapped to make way for modern machinery, possibly


a turbine.


During those 120 years, the wheel worked untiringly, drawing its power from the Calder, and serving the


mill faithfully. When other water wheels! were broken


IN AND OUT AND ROUND ABOUT


by “ QUI3 ” BUSINESS and pleasure


in Ribblesdale was Mr. Robert Dnoth, a former Ribblesdale League cricketer.


ENEWING acquaintance at the weekend with friends


nresident and director of manufacturing with the Ken- riall Company, of Boston. Mass., was employed at Whal- i»v Abbey Printworks at narrow for several years until the end of 1930, when he left to take up an important post in the works of the China Printing and Finishing Company, a branch of the Calico Printers’ Asso­ ciation, at Shanghai.


Mr Booth, now vice-


MIt was while at Barrow that a r Booth became well known vs a cricketer, playing for the willage club. He was also


referee. An old boy of Clitheroe


ell known as a local football


Royal Grammar School, to which he won a scholarship from Barrow Congregational School Mr. Booth visited this district in the summer of 1959. The previous occasion was in 1936.


early years of the war, being evacuated with Ame r i c a n


He was in China during the


nationals shortlv before the Japanese att acked Pearl Harbour. Later he went to Walpole. Mass., and became assistant treasurer to the housing authority there and helped to provide houses for American war veterans.


this country on a business trip.


Mr. Booth Is at present in ANGLERS, TAKE CARE


I fR . E. HARRI SON, a .lM- well-known local fishing tackle dealer, surprised me the other dav when he told me that not only fish had cause to regret the visit of anglers to our rivers. Birds have been known to become l entangled in short lengths of


banks. wApparently ducks and other


ine or traces left on the river leaterfowl pick up these


entangled when carrying them as nesting material to the nesting site.


ngths of nylon and become


many who are concerned about the situation, and showed me a poster which the R.S.P.C.A. are distributing, showing a wild duck in flight with nylon line wrapped around its legs and in its


Last week at Lytham,'^"'1'’ - had lanother success. wUfHHifc er section. She was one •’t ■


ti: --/senior ballet, troplra • fti­ hthe highest marks In bajletj/h.,,


“ Captions on the poster read, -. , ;is dahgerous ” and “ Careless


beak. j


Anglers, would you torture , this bird?”, “ Discarded tackle


linns /cause agonising suffer­ e d even slow death-”


■


-yon “ uo not discard any lengths of line on the river bank. It could trap a bird.


- .nglers, please, see that BIRD WATCHER


CJEVERAL local people recog- O nised Mr. David Musson, a member of the well-known Ciitheroe family, when he appeared in the television programme “ Tonight ” last


week. MMr. Musson, son of Mr. and


Rochester, was one of a party of ornithologists who were conducting a census of birds on the marshes at Gravesend and Hoo, and one of the “Tonight” team was there to interview the party.


rs. Francis Musson, of


l As a small child Mr. Musson Cived with his parents in


having been evacuated, but his interest in birds did not really begin until shortly afterwards when the family went to America.


laremont Avenue, Ciitheroe.


The Stage


By The Critic


Societies thrive and talent flourishes


TFHE curtain has fallen on yet another local amateur A theatrical season. Has it been a good season?


may say with truth that it has. We have seen no th e a tr ic a l fireworks, but rather a steady expansion, a st r e ngt he nin g of local t societies and a nurturing of


I think, on balance, one ‘


Church Players will miss Mrs. Penny Butler, who has done much work for the society.


ncouragement g i v e n to youngsters. The productions presented have often been of a type to allow scope for young people.


alent. feOne particularly pleasing


e a t u re has been the KUnder the direction of Mr.


Technical School Theatre Group has continued to thrive. Mr. Taylor has dis­ played considerable ability as producer since taking over this role from Mrs. Greta Wilkinson, who, by the way, tells me she has just returned from a wonderful holiday in


enneth Taylor, the Clitheroe


with her family means, too, that Waddington Dr ama


Her removal to London


Group will have to find, another producer. Fans of sp this group will recall her


Shop at Sly Corner,” pre­ sented at Waddington in


lendid direction of " The


March. deI will be pleased to receive


for next season and of any activities arranged for the suirlmer months.


tails of productions planned


Italy. St. Michael’s Players made


Deanery mothers meet


a successful experiment when they ventured away from the usual kind of play to present, at Christmas, “ New Clothes for the Emperor.” I think it can be claimed that the experiment was successful.


doubtedly Whallev Church Players’ presentation of “ The Ghost Train.” Donnie Wallis did a fine job as producer, and pa the Old Grammar School was


a One of the most talked


“ THE GHOST TRAIN ” bout productions was un


most talented members when Mrs. Elsie Kershaw removed from the district.


cked for each performance. The Players lost one of their


William Ralph, probablv the society’s best character actor. Mr. Ralph was a member of the teaching staff at Whalley a of E. School and has now taken another appointment.


Another loss is that of Mr


fortunate in having a number of promising young people among their numbers.


The Players are, however, ti Other local societies con­ nued to prosper. Chatburn


Mr. Harrison is one of From the Castle here once the Norsemen trod. nd Roman, iron shod.


gTAND on this rugged keep and W see


Where ages later Nazis flung, Destruction from the sky.


And chased the boar and deer, Built his canoe and coracle, The running water near. This is the soil where ancient man,


-


First planted grain and seed. First turned his hand to bus bandry,


First brewed bis ale and mead.


There on old Pendle Satan T hurled.


Hhe boulders from his brat, Hith cauldron and with cat.


T R U S T E E


ere rode Dun Mare, here W witches dwelt.


ere in the forest Christians T raised,


Here Wesley cried, “ Men live by A faith.


heir rough hewn cross of stone. nd not by bread alone!"


Here men live, and here they A die.nd herd they laugh and mourn, Here they take their rest each H night,


birds in the parks in Washington. “ David has since spent


There he began by observing


many holidays in this district, spending all his time studying birds. His interest has just i ®rown and grown and now he


extra pressure of water was liable to bring it to a standstill. Paradoxically, drought had no effect on it, because the headrace col­ lected what little water there was.


The mill has served many owners, first of whom was a Mr. Dugdale, for whom the mill was built in 1837. He stayed until 1841, when the mill was taken over by Messrs. Ingham and Tom­ linson. Mr. Tomlinson left s the concern in 1874 and


at a farm in King Street, across the road from the


tarted up in competition


up, the Whalley wheel kept going, until it was one of the last in the county.


Now the wheel has stopped, never to turn again, with a broken nine-inch diameter main shaft. Although it can be repaired, Mr. John Lund, a member of the m a n a g e m e n t , told an


The mill was run by Messrs. A. and H. Ingham until 1907, when It was taken over by Wh a l l e y and District Farmers, Ltd.


mill. IN 1926


“ Advertiser and Times ” reporter this week that it was not much us'e throwing good monev after bad— other parts of the system being equally old and reaching the end of their


useful life. TO BE SCRAPPED


So the whole system is being scrapped — “ With reluct­ ance ” he added.


One of the peculiarities of the wheel was that when the Calder was in flood, the


The result was that the membership of the society immediately jumped to more than 80. The farmers continued to be concerned with the mill until it came into the hands of the present concern in 1926.


Until recently, the wheel, 15 feet six inches in diameter and nine feet broad, ground about eight tons of corn a day crushed a ton of oats and mixed 13 tons of cattle, pig and poultry food.


And so the wheel—a good and faithful servant for more than a century—will soon be dismantled, unhonoured and unsung, but re­ membered by all who love our va nis hin g rural


heritage.


Here greet each day new born. And here confess and pray.


nd toil their lives away.


s secretary of the Kent Ornithological Society, his aunt, Mrs. M. Troop, of Mitton Road, Whalley, told me this


f land agents in Folkstone.


They weave their cloth, they S drive the plough,


hey barter and they sell, Hubdue the rolling fell.


week. o Mr. Musson is with a firm


When you tread the Castle keep. jimifel.


ou can see a nation’s story,


S A V I N G S B A N K Church Street . Clitheroe


LOCAL


ere they lie, and here they A cheat,


re good, and bad, and brave A and small,


Here at our feet, men spin their T thread,


ere men hew rock, and burn A their lime,


Ynd raise their kine and sheep.


THIS WAS NEWS . . - 50 YEARS AGO


25 YEARS AGO JUNE 5th, 1936


rilPSY SMITH, the well- u known evangelist, visited


other well-known preachers. :[: * :!:


Wad di ng t on Methodist Church in company with


The value of local preachers em to the Methodist Church was


versary of the Clitheroe branch of the Methodist Local Preachers’ Mutual Aid Asso­ ciation was celebrated.


phasised when the anni­


newspapers that it had been the coldest Whitsun for 25 years.


It was stated in many J ;|! :|: Hi


A team of Clitheroe young Coition held at the Lancashire p Many people from various


farmers won the shield at the t annual stock-judging compe­


Hutton’ * *


unty Council Farm at *


ttracted to Slaidburn on Whit Monday, when the


aarts of Bowland were


annual festival was held. * * *


erected at Read Cricket Ground. The board was made by Mr. H. Pate, the second team scorer.


A modern score board was JUNE 9th, 1911


COME 40 to 50 members of O the P.S.A. had an excur­ sion to Liverpool, with Mr. John Ford in charge. A visit was paid to the soap works at Port Sunlight, and the party also toured the White Star


liner Laurentic. *


Joseph Robert Cowgill to the Bishopric of Leeds had an especial interest for the people of this district. His i appointment in 1905 as Coad-


The appointment of Dr. * * OUR SAUSAGES ARE SUPREME


the right of succession to the bishopric which had become vacant by the death of Dr.


utor-Bishop carried with it


Gordon. * $ it “The Wide Bay and Burnett


ROAST HAM . ROAST PORK PRESSED BEEF . BRAWN . ETC. All Cooked on our Own Premises


News”, a Queensland news­ paper, published notice of the success of Mr. Albert J. Mars- den, son of Mr. James Mars- den, formerly of Clitheroe, who won a scholarship which entitled him to three years tuition at Queensland Univer-


sity-


bands provided the music fpr the Whit-Tuesday procession


Read and Sabden brass * *


of Whalley Church Sunday School and congregation.


PICKLED TONGUES & PICKLED BEEF ,


always available.


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COWMAN’S


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nd Cromwell’s men rode by, proposit/iQ


Where Piet and Scot came A ravaging,


Where Norman drove his gallic A horde,


Down there, the caveman scraped his home. ■


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SPECIAL INVESTMENT DEPARTMENT


Repayments are normally subject to one month’s notice out sums up to £50 may he withdrawn on demand.


1 ' ; hi


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YX Deanery Mothers’ Union was held at Ciitheroe Parish Church School on Monday.


A MEETING of Whalley


and the speaker was Mrs. Hoskyns-Abrahall, wife of the Rt. Rev. A. L. E. Hoskyns- Abrahall, Bishop of Lancaster.


About 100 members attended


Deanery presented a series of playlets about the Mothers Union with the angle of bringing in younger members. They were organisd by Mrs. O. Wilkinson, the young members’ representative for


Members of Bl ac k bu rn


Council houses to be built on


Whalley, next to the old G ram m a r School and on the


site at Station Road.


Riddings Lane? A SCHEME for a bousing


site of the old Albion Tennis rnfirt has been abandoned by Clitheroe Rural District


Council. This was reported at the


ShT


Council’s annual meeting on Monday, when Coun. J. i*.


included a plan for a w county branch library to re place the existing one in King


ahS housing scheme also


Street, Whalley. a Instead, the Rural Council


earlier. ACCESS ROAD


agree in principle to the suggestion of an access road for a proposed housing, estate on The Canals, Whalley. across the Council s open space at George Street.


WALL AND GATE


moval of a wall and sate at w the top of George Street,


This would mean the re­ i hich would then carry on


there is' a pathway from George Street, leading rignt,


nto the Canals. At present


to Abbey Road, and the road would cut across this almost


the Diocese. Mrs. M. Smith, presiding


member for Whalley Deanery, presided.


at right angles. The proposal to build


petition. The Council are prepared to


Coun. J. (I re-electel chairl


rtOUN. J. G. U the Chatbul


Rural District annual meetin;


re-election, Co paid tribute to mented “ We a to him.”


Proposing (


s Coun. A. BroJ gaid he endor:r


ate’s sentimei GARDEt


Riddings Lane, Whalley, and adjoining Station Road. This site had been abandoned


are giving further consider- tion to a housing site at ■ i■ :fa


Coun. Sharp s can rely on thr Council. I th: event in my ye was the invi wife and mysel ham Palace ga I count this m to myself, but


Thanking tl


to the Council C Coun. Shan


seconded thaf Airey should [ vice-chairman!


oun. Rev.


Chatburn, ngri man’s chaplaij


The Rev. H.


appointed wei| Finance


Chairmen


poses: Chair| Brooks; vice- J. G. Sharp.


houses on the site aroused a storm of protest from some villagers, who drew up a


Cleansing: Cl E. Holgate; Coun. J. M. -4I


Waterworks!


Chairman, Cel chairman, Ccj


Public Heall


Airey; vice-fl Mrs. M. Trool


Highways: — T r ip s


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SUNDAl


Whalley d | Clitheroe


Light Refre.j


Organised Rarl Fares quotef


Enquire for cursion boo'r.l


and Menai l i and N.W.sl


For details ol enquire at L| or Official


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